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

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

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.

This all-white LEED Gold home is undoubtedly modern, but takes cues from the historic precedent of the longhouse to bring the...

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

Surrounded on all sides by a sweeping Canadian hayfield, the 23.2 House is an angular ode to rural life.

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

The site of a former family vineyard becomes the wild and rugged canvas for Casa en el Campo—a modern home built from sleek,...

To create their rural Connecticut getaway, Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi layered their modern design sensibility atop an early...

Summer is all about experiencing simple pleasures.

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

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

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

From Kyoto, Japan, to Austin, Texas, these dwellings take “bringing the outside in” to the next level.

A single day is all it took to install this modular home on a working farm near Orange, New South Wales.

An architect designing hospitals in Rwanda first brought sustainability to a lakeside dwelling in Ontario.

Designed by Takeru Shoji Architects, the Hara House opens up to the outside world.

An expansive country home draws inspiration from the landscape with a faceted roof that echoes the hills of rural Quebec.

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...

A Toronto firm crafts a serene waterfront structure for a family in Georgian Bay.

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.

Mulmur Hills Farm by Turkel Design is a spectacular response to a couple’s desire to bring a connection with nature—and several...

Nestled into the mountainous terrain of Shefford, Québec, this simply constructed residence is elegant and strong in expression.

With five designs ranging from a modern cabin to a five-bedroom dwelling, Russian prefab company DublDom now accepts pre-orders...

While the English word ruin comes from the Latin "ruina"—meaning “destruction” or “downfall”—ruins can be the literal and...

Architect Jamie Darnell had a simple plan for his family’s home in Kansas City, Missouri, but the result is anything but plain.

On Victoria’s rugged coast, Wiesebrock Architecture calls upon regional farmhouse vernacular for a design that considers all the...

Norske Mikrohus’s latest design is clad in sustainable spruce—and it will take you anywhere you want to go.

An adventurous family envisions a dream getaway on Sweden’s southwestern shore.

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