Q&A: Architect Rem Koolhaas Turns Our Attention to the Countryside
The famed advocate of urban living embraces country life with a new exhibition.
Koolhaas Takes Manhattan
New York has had a way of loudly excluding or being excluded by deserving people.
The New Zealand Native That's Taking Over Rotterdam
The sleek lighting designs of Sabine Marcelis are capturing the attention of fashion houses and architecture firms alike.
For the First Time, Architecture’s Most Coveted Award Goes to Two Women
Since 1979, the Pritzker Prize has gone to architects—mostly men—in recognition of years of unfailing contributions.
The Placemakers
"We want to position our work outside of architecture, as a clear piece of sociology and ecology."
An Art Studio That Would Make Picasso Jealous
In Toronto, a painter accustomed to crashing in his studio created an airy artistic haven with both working and living quarters...
The Dwell 24: Cody Campanie
This third-generation woodworker is challenging the normative conceptual and physical practices of furniture design from his...
Step Inside the Cosmic House, a London Home Designed to Reflect the Universe
The historic family home of Charles and Maggie Jencks is a wild experiment in postmodernism—and it just opened to the public for...
Color 101: Hueless
Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors.
Five of the Uncountable Contributions Virgil Abloh Made to Architecture and Home Design
Abloh, the Louis Vuitton menswear designer and prolific creative who died last month, applied his architecture training to build...
Q&A: Legendary Garden Designer Piet Oudolf on His Latest Living Landscape
The venerable designer discusses the “performance of plants” he composed for the Vitra Campus—and why a garden should have...
This New Urban Cabin May Be Our Best Solution for City Living
Design duo Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter tell us the story of how they built a flexible, tiny cabin that has the power to...
Way Out West
Leaving the bustle of Washington, D.C., architect Joe Day and his wife return to California and discover that life in a...
New Beginnings
Uni, an international group of designers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is riding out a self-professed renovation high that never...
Metabolism Talks The Talk
Last night the New York Public Library hosted a sold-out talk between pioneering contemporary architect Rem Koolhaas and curator...
Showcase of Architectural Drawings at Venice Architecture Biennale
100 drawings by Daniel Libeskind, screen-printed on glass panels, fill the Venice Pavilion.
Piece of Cake
For some, the holidays are about indulgence while for others, it’s a tricky balancing act of holiday desserts and a healthy diet.
Three Starchitects for the Price of One at the Leeum
The rather poorly named Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (an unfortunate collision of “Lee”, surname of the Samsung family who...
Marina Plus Rem, in Upstate New York
Hudson, New York, is a small community nestled into its namesake river valley about 100 miles north of Manhattan.
Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
The first scenes of Woody Allen's Manhattan capture it: ambitious dreams and New York are synonymous, and buildings are the...
Australia's Black Granite Box at Venice Architecture Biennale
An uncannily simple white cube gallery space wrapped in black granite comes to the Australian pavilion of the Venice Architecture...
SF's Architecture and the City
It's September in San Francisco which means that our local chapter of the American Institute of Architects is hosting its...
Early Drawings by Famous Architects
Early architectural drawings showcase established architects' creative explorations on paper.
3-D Modeling Fashion
As digital fabrication meets high design, we find more and more examples of amazing furniture and household products (and even...
Maggie’s Centres: A Blueprint for Cancer Care
A striking set of designs for patient treatment centers showcases architecture’s power to heal.
"Quake" Exhibit Explores Intersection of Architecture and Engineering
A New York exhibition explores where architecture and engineering meet to design for earthquake zones.
Friday Finds 6.5.09
This week in the editors' jaunts around the World Wide Web shared in international flavor (perhaps it's a summer travel bug).
Natasha Jen
Pentagram’s newest partner adopts a spatial approach to graphic design and building brand identities that go way beyond logos.
Best Architecture of 2008?
Just a couple days ago the Los Angeles Times posted a slideshow of their picks for the Best Architecture: 2008, complete with...
This House Gets Better with Age
An architect creates a long-term home for his parents around a glass enclosure built to celebrate Northwestern wilderness.
Take Four: Well Designed Shoes
Take Four will be a semi-regular look at four things that follow a trend. First up: designer shoes.
The Brightly Colored World of Designers Scholten & Baijings
The reigning couple of color has made an indelibly saturated mark on the furniture scene of today.
Snøhetta Chosen to Design Le Monde's Headquarters in Paris
The "evolution of media" and the relationship with the reader are themes.
U.S. Pavilion Pushes Boundaries of the Venice Architecture Biennale
The curators of the U.S. Pavilion bring a working architectural office to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
An Architect Goes Minimalist to the Max With His Home Renovation in Queens
An ascetic-minded couple take a New York row house down to the studs.
Shelved By Color
I went to the Dwell bookcase today to look for the tome Mutations by Rem Koolhaas and others.

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