A couple’s retirement home on a nature preserve in Carmel, California, emerges as a series of eco-conscious pavilions that rest...

"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz.

HÛT Architecture uses a simple palette of handcrafted materials to create a contemporary home for a musician and a furniture...

We’ve got a bird feeder that looks like vintage lighting, some beautiful cocktail glasses, and unfussy placemats, right this way.

A new home in Australia raises the question: Is it possible to produce much of your own food and energy while living near the...

We present four case studies on more viable ways of living in mountains, forests, wetlands, and deserts.

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A green roof cools your home in the summer, insulates in the winter, and has far-reaching benefits for the community, but keeping...

See if you check off all the boxes when it comes to creating an eco-friendly household.

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

Seeking simplicity and open space, a Boulder-area couple settled on a wooded hilltop with views of the mountains and the city.

The City of Los Angeles has announced the winners of its latest design contest, which crowdsourced innovative housing solutions...

Embodied energy, gray water, black water, carbon footprint—the list of sustainable design terms goes on and on, and we're here to...

A thoroughly modern house in Baton Rouge owes its sleek and sustainable form to its vernacular roots.

The greenest home is the one you already have.

Climate is one of the biggest factors of human physical comfort and sustainability, and it's one of the most important...

With careful planning and wise material choices, you can design an eco-friendly home that's not only gentler on the planet, but...

Wood in general is a beautiful, evocative natural material, and when it's saved from a landfill and reused, it has even more...

With a historic designation and updated energy-efficient features, this spacious 3,521-square-foot property in Pasadena,...

From a shipping container dwelling to architect Steven Holl’s forest retreat, these residences embody the ideal that what’s best...

In the Texas capital's transit-oriented Mueller development, architect Michael Hsu proposes a modern take on row house living.

From a carbon-negative cabin to a prefab farmhouse, these resourceful designs captivated readers this year.

The return of summer barbecues and back porch hangouts means that outdoor living spaces are again enjoying heavy foot traffic.

Thanks to a disciplined devotion to mid-century principles of design, a curator’s bachelor pad in the Hamptons is reborn.

A 1940 house designed by the modernist architect for his family in Ross, California.

A Southern California architect approaches his family home as an experiment in sustainable design.

Explore Ecospace Studio's modular buildings that serve a variety of valuable purposes.

A sustainable home in Lexington, Massachusetts, brings contemporary design to an unexpected region.

Now that summer has officially started, temperatures are rising and air conditioners are cranked up—but that doesn’t mean you...

A high-tech house in rural Finland offers a family a place to recharge—in more ways than one.

Perkins & Will designs a mountaintop Passive House that takes energy efficiency to the next level.

Matt Jacobson doesn’t just abide by the mantra “less is more,” he wholeheartedly embraces it. His Southern California home is a...

Designers Kate Newman, Jordan Cluroe, and Russell Whitehead share their color picks that’ll give your kitchen a fresh look for...

A husband and wife decide to retire in a historic downtown enclave—and in the process, they reimagine what the area could be.

Japanese and Scandinavian influences come together to produce a look that’s serene, organic, and refined.

Quintessential California architect John Lautner’s Elrod House, set high above Palm Springs, is nothing short of concrete poetry.