Design Matters: The Possibilities Are Endless

Perfection is boring.

Curators in Rotterdam present an exhibition that questions the often unsettling future of technology as a constant presence from cradle to grave.

Agricultural buildings inspire a remote getaway in eastern Canada.

At a recent talk in Toronto, the newly knighted architect shared his thoughts on a most important commission.

The Danish tradition of apprenticeship and woodworking lives on at Carl Hansen & Søn.

Placing resiliency first, a fortified beach house rises in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.

On Bainbridge Island, Jim and Hannah Cutler create a cabin for reading and working.

In the depths of an ancient quarry, a solitary chef nourishes travelers’ appetites for authenticity.

For his latest collaboration with a repeat client, interior designer Brian Paquette burnishes an eclectic Pacific Northwest cottage’s charm.

Danish design impresario Jens Martin Skibsted works with architect Jürgen Mayer H. to update a Norwegian-style, 19th-century home with an idiosyncratic point of view.

A lengthy trail of research leads a young couple to conclude that their circa-1940s Silver Lake home is quite possibly a rare commission of the great midcentury graphic designer.

In rural Canada, an architect imports an American typology to create a year-round refuge rooted in the landscape.

How a bedroom remodel jumped the threshold and infiltrated every room in the house.

A couple reconfigure a dilapidated Brooklyn brownstone and prepare it for the 21st century.

A globetrotting couple rebuild a Katrina-damaged residence by a famous midcentury New Orleans firm—on the very street where one of them grew up.

An art project simulates the miracle of rain in Missouri.

Embodying innovations in technology, architecture, and lifestyle, the 200-foot-long residence in Hancock Park, Los Angeles will span a brook that runs through the grounds.