A New Slant on Family Fun

The monograph “The Design Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby” offers the inside account behind the British duo’s expansive portfolio.

North Carolina high schoolers take on a creating a sustainable small-scale housing solution—for hens.

Chipotle’s recent approach to restaurant design aims to transform the traditionally tasteless experience of eating fast food into something more refined.

Classic or contemporary, these titles are guaranteed to appeal to burgeoning bookworms of the modernist sort.

Lowering the shutters on this small writer’s retreat completely exposes the interior to the site’s impressive island views.

The Sunshine State once yielded a bumper crop of modernist homes that—as this remodel proves—are still worth savoring.

Quintessential California architect John Lautner’s Elrod House, set high above Palm Springs, is nothing short of concrete poetry.

With ingenuity and plenty of elbow grease, architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse.

All it takes to play is a healthy imagination, but a modern playhouse adds to the fun.

This Los Angeles family builds smart and plans ahead.

Far from pandering to the whine of youth, this urban play garden fosters thoughtful interaction in a protected setting within the bustle of San Francisco.

In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the mass-produced in surprising new ways.

This seaside New Zealand house is a family affair.

The open spaces and transparency of modern architecture turn out to be extremely useful when there’s a house full of relatives.

Eating has always been a sociable event, from primitive campfire cooking to reclining on lectuli at lavish Greek and Roman banquets.

No need to brave the teeming throngs only to score a slice at Sbarro: These hopping food malls are as haute as can be.

Grown, harvested, prepped, and cooked all in the same place, farm-to-table fare is coming to a city near you.

Slide into that booth or belly up the bar to learn what’s next for restaurant design. You’ll know before the maître d’ does.

A spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor in this London home.