At Hudson Woods, architect Drew Lang creates a modern community with a strong local flavor.

A thatched cottage on the French coastline gets a second chance with a stunning renovation that blends past and present.

A one-room retreat outside Providence, Rhode Island, takes up no more space than a standard two-car garage.

A family finds a place for everything as they expand their cramped Mill Valley home.

Wrightson Stewart and Barbara Bailey designed the breezy extension to embrace an awkward lot and merged the two structures with...

The Melbourne beachside suburb of Sandringham is filled with period houses such as this Edwardian timber home—but this one has...

Using the same roof form and materials as the houses surrounding it, this Australian residence reinterprets the pitched-roof...

In Houston's historic Old Sixth Ward, a neglected, 1904 Folk Victorian cottage is relocated and restored as a modern office.

Whale-watching is an indoor activity at a maritime sanctuary in Quebec.

A New England cottage makes the most of short summers with an innovative indoor/outdoor space.

In Seattle, where others saw only a severe slope and lack of municipal hookups, one couple spotted their ticket to their dream...

What happens when the guest house becomes home? Retired couple Suzanne and Brooks Kelley found out when a pair of brainy New...

A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.

For his latest collaboration with a repeat client, interior designer Brian Paquette burnishes an eclectic Pacific Northwest...

A sagging ranch house is reborn as a spacious cabin with a soaring roof in Harbert, Michigan.

A family escapes their urban environs to a vacation home attuned to its coastal landscape.

Uni, an international group of designers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is riding out a self-professed renovation high that never...

Once a cottage for farm workers, this house—which overlooks the Salthouse Marshes on the north coast of Norfolk—has been...

In southwestern England, an architect transforms a former postman’s cottage on a sprawling estate into a home that radiates from...

Ninety minutes outside New York City, a young couple’s first house riffs on agricultural vernacular with a green twist.

On the northwestern tip of Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a vacation rental that's inspired by the region’s traditional “crofter...

Escape to a classic cottage in the UK that's been updated with modern elements—bringing together the old and the new.

The “endangered” Booth Cottage could be the first Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home to be torn down in the U.S. in over a decade.

Architect Tal Schori of GRT Architects crafts a brick-clad retreat for his parents.

A Bay Area landscape designer works her yard like a jigsaw puzzle, packing a bevy of distinctive destinations into a steep and...

With sensitivity to local building typologies, fresh construction finds a place in Amsterdam.

At the end of a winding country lane on the north coast of Cornwall, England, is a quirky vacation rental that combines modern...

Located against the beautiful and mysterious backdrop of Easter Island in Chile, the Morerava Cabins boast a sleek,...

Located two hours north of NYC, the idyllic home even comes with a white picket fence.

Behind the Dwell Magazine Redesign

Fifteen minutes from downtown Seattle, architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo transformed the neighborhood dump—a lot that had...

As New Orleans struggles to get back on its feet, one architect learns from the past while building for the future.

We asked five households that recently switched Los Angeles neighborhoods what they had in mind when picking a new place to live.

Architecture is the latest field to feel the double-edged sword of computerization.

Completed in 1938, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is as relevant as ever—and it’s a model of architectural conservancy.

Shaun Lockyer Architects gives a timber-and-tin cottage a sophisticated mullet renovation that responds to the subtropical...