With a sleek and minimalist Scandinavian aesthetic and a portfolio that includes industrial design, residential architecture,...

A new prefab company represents the future of low-impact affordable housing.

Texas architect Jim Poteet helped Stacey Hill, who lives in a San Antonio artists’ community, wrangle an empty steel shipping...

In a far-flung desert destination, designer Barbara Hill does it again.

Building a small home doesn’t equate to easy lifting.

Craving the conveniences of city life, a couple sidle over to Seattle from the countryside without compromising their love of the...

Eight shipping containers will be recycled into green-roofed homes for low-income residents in Aylesbury, England.

From the deck of this waterfront house, the scenery is abuzz with Northern California wildlife–but there's not a utility bill in...

Every week, we highlight one amazing Dwell home that went viral on Pinterest.

Toronto designers Peter Fleming and Debbie Adams found a polluted lot and a run-down building—and saw fertile ground for a...

A musician-and-seamstress couple commission a shared workspace in their elegant garden.

For aesthetically beautiful minimalist, modern, and sleek design, less really can be more.

From city apartments to vacation rentals and boutique hotels, a daring and creative use of colorful paint, textiles, and other...

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based...

Alternative materials help a house in California’s wine country tread lightly on the land.

Inspired by their favorite day of the week, Saturday Green is a female-led collective of textile designers who recently launched...

Versatile and hardworking, cork can soften, texturize, and insulate a space.

Built for $200,000 and lowered into place by crane, a compact cargotecture office perfectly slots into an architect’s backyard.

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

From start-to-finish, prefabricated shipping container homes are revolutionizing the homebuilding process for the better.

We have seen shipping containers being repurposed for uses ranging from housing to hotels—so it's only logical that some...

Designed by one of America’s leading cargotecture proponents, this modern shipping container home in New Jersey is seeking a new...

A shipping container home tackles temperature control in a tropical environment.

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.

Not everyone has the luxury of having multiple bedrooms in their homes—but that’s nothing to lose sleep over.

Space-saving solutions from Room & Board beautifully make the most of compact bedrooms.

The nominees for this year’s Dwell Design Awards may be petite, but they pack a big punch.

Live, work, or vacation in an eco-friendly, mobile cardboard prefab.

Architect Paul Elliott erects an eco-friendly home on family property, implementing sustainable materials and Japanese...

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

This portable dwelling, made of two shipping containers, is ready for its next move.

These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as...

It’s the reason for the season: save up to 50% off your favorite lighting, fans, furniture, and more during the Lumens Holiday...

Inspired by cargotecture, this boxy dwelling in West Vancouver features an efficient layout that makes the most of its hillside...