This sun-filled residence brings a suburban California site closer to its untamed roots.

The flora comes first at a leafy enclave just minutes from downtown Palo Alto.

Spatial efficiency meets energy efficiency in this Bay Area home designed by an architect for his parents.

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.

A freshly blackened veneer is the face of a San Francisco tract house’s Cloud-based reinvention.

Courtyard House in Menlo Park, California, encourages a family with two teenagers to be independent while staying connected—to...

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

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

For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.

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

For a couple’s forever home, SB Architects draw from resort design to effortlessly blend indoors and out.

The aptly named Butterfly House by William Duff Architects puts a spacious courtyard at the center of activity.

636 Waverley’s “ribbon” of concrete defines bright, pleasant spaces while providing weather protection.

“It’s the new French embassy,” jokes architect Mary Maydan, who turned a previously botched Eichler into a home that’s as warm...

Back by popular demand, the Dwell Home Tours series will make its way back to Silicon Valley this year.

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

Bright, airy, and only a few hours away from Manhattan, this modern woodsy house is the last dwelling available at Hudson Woods.

Studio eM Design’s rammed-earth home in Corrales, New Mexico, updates the regional adobe archetype into a hallmark of sustainable...

A perfect destination for visitors to Devon, England who love the environment and seek serene, natural surroundings, as well as...

The energy-efficient Silicon Valley home that architect Dan Spiegel designs for his parents responds to their lifestyles, the...

Architect Barry Alan Yoakum draws on decades of experience to build what, by one measure, is the first zero-energy, zero-carbon...

Local architects from McKinney York explain their schemes for two sustainable models designed to give the formerly homeless a...

Overlooking views of a picturesque Austrian village, this modern home is built of wood entirely sourced from the homeowner’s...

High on the east bank of New York's Hudson River, a special midcentury home receives a stunning renovation inspired by the...

Stylish, spacious, and self-sustaining, the Hill Country House ticks all the right boxes for progressive modern living.

TRIAS Studio follows a “less but better” mindset for a couple seeking to downsize to a modest and eco-friendly home.

Conceived as an extension of the Arizona landscape, this eco-friendly, modern house approaches near net-zero energy consumption.

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

Huge windows and energy-efficient elements make this Oregon residence a nature lover’s dream.

Lake|Flato harnesses prefab design to construct an award-winning weekend retreat in just eight months.

This forgotten stable in the Spanish province of Cáceres was converted into a vacation rental that takes full advantage of its...

In Melbourne’s Northcote neighborhood, Studio Bright reincarnates a declining Edwardian into a civic-minded family home with...

Mobile cabinetry and thoughtful reuse turn a dilapidated industrial structure into a warm and creative home with open-ended...

CplusC Architectural Workshop’s Clinton Cole has equipped his Darlington address with a solar-panel facade, rainwater harvesting,...

This Seattle–based firm specializing in modern prefab homes is committed to sustainability from conception through construction.