A New Slant on Family Fun

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.

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

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

This Los Angeles family builds smart and plans ahead.

This seaside New Zealand house is a family affair.

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.

John Lautner's beyond-groovy Elrod House 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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