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

On a private island in Ontario, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects are in the midst of creating an energy-efficient and convivial...

The efficiency and aesthetics of prefab proved appealing to the owner of this Dwell Home, built on a rugged island off Canada’s...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These extraordinary tree houses meld sustainable materials with hospitality design, offering an innovative and adventurous way to...

Danish architect Jesper Pedersen reimagines a Lloyd Ruocco midcentury, putting sustainability at the forefront of the...

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

Easy peasy: There are a ton of simple ways to make a positive impact on Mother Earth without drastically altering your daily...

In 2010, Dwell took a look at four radical plans to reshape and retrofit spaces outside of our cities.

A natural disaster cleared a property in the Colorado mountains, giving an architect and her family a blank slate on which to...

At the 2016 NW Natural Street of Dreams, outdoor projects built with Humboldt Redwood graced a show home and a wine tasting room.

Formed around the values of nature, passion, creativity, and community, this sustainably oriented community outside of Atlanta,...

A renovation and addition clad in operable, wooden screens turn an Edwardian in Camberwell into a breezy home that's strongly...

Built of prefabricated cross-laminated timber panels, this barn-inspired home blends into the rural landscape.

If their everyday mantra sounds something like “reduce, reuse, recycle,” these eco-conscious gifts won’t weigh on their...

Designed and built by a group of students in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Voxel allows its residents to operate...

Part of a micro-architecture collection, this modular hotel suite provides sustainable and comfortable lodging that can be...

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Future Green Studio is cultivating beautiful and sustainable landscapes throughout NYC, one...

At first glance, the dramatic facade of this coastal home in Victoria, Australia, might seem to contradict its name—Humble...

Built to blend in with its forest surroundings and complement an existing prefab log cabin, the Hankø Bathhouse designed by...