In Alabama, a commercial building with a multifarious past begins a fresh chapter for a young family after a modern renovation.

The split-level home strikes a happy compromise between classic details and contemporary updates.

An award-winning renovation and addition breathes new life into a run-down home for a growing family.

You don’t need to break the bank to bring American-made products into your home.

Lauren and Van Jones turn a school bus into a vibrant and practical home on wheels for their family in Birmingham, Alabama.

In rural Western Alabama, a student-led program evolves from building $20,000 homes to creating a blueprint for sustainable,...

The Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice filled the interior with an abundance of custom millwork—and it’s still in pristine condition.

Featuring expansive floor plans, high ceilings, and edgy industrial elements, these unique designs take warehouse-to-home...

Keep up with the design world: Yayoi Kusama redirects her dot obsession to flowers, a powerful memorial in Alabama honors victims...

The couple behind Mix Design Collective open up a cramped kitchen that was so last century—literally.

In the Virginia woods, two architects devise an economical solution to a couple’s need for space.

Designer Maurice Cherry unwinds the eclectic, ever-changing scene in the capital city.

Though the floor plan remains unchanged, a few simple, cosmetic alterations go a long way in turning a frumpy 1986 RV into a...

A tech executive renovates a 1980s loft in a former paper factory.

These tiny home companies are designing small spaces that can house as many as eight people.

A patchwork of state and city protections against evictions is poised to intensify the U.S. housing crisis.

Like an enthusiastic anatomy professor redecorating her living room, the Texas designer exposes, explodes, and suspends the...

First, ditch the white tablecloth.

In our July/August 2012 issue, we profiled a cross-section of women working in the design field from architects to curatorial...

Art and life meet in the middle at a creative family retreat in Central Mexico.

When housing markets heat up, livability ratings help guide demand—but not all assessments are worth their salt, and some are,...

Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group delivers an impassioned TED Talk about dignity, healing, and architecture.

And it could be yours for a cool $6.3M.

It's a dream for many to own a beach home, but an unrealistic one because of coastal homes prices.

This modern log cabin from architecture students at Auburn University was designed to be completed for $20,000—an admirable...

One day at Compostmodern equals about a week in standard time, and much more if you add up the many hours' worth of Web-surfing...

From Zoomers who never used it, to Millennials who miss it, early aughts tech has captured the aesthetic eye of those yearning...

While styles, and items in the overhead compartment, may shift, these comely carry-ons will make you feel like a member of the...

A director and professor at Auburn’s acclaimed architectural lab talk about the next 20 years of sustainable, rural design.

New Orleans native Sherry-Lea Botop found herself in a unique position in 2005: The non-profit activist was, like many of her...

In conjunction with TechnoCRAFT, an exhibition at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that explores the fading...

Contemporary design takes its cues from the past and reinterprets the classics, from Shaker furniture to quilts to Tiffany glass.

Lance Hosey, co-author of the 2007 book Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design, led a panel at the South by Southwest Eco...

Architecture professor Laura Terry and her students spent a summer designing and creating new facilities for young campers with...

Nick Dine and Josh Itola have a chat...

It was only a matter of time before people started pining for the Olive Garden aesthetics of their pre-housing crisis...