Small World: Living Large in 235, 900, or 2,000 Square Feet

A landscape architect in San Francisco harnesses an underground water source to create a lush marshland in his own backyard.

Make way, Arne and Eero. Forward-looking furniture company Muuto turns the spotlight on 21st-century Scandinavian design.

Eight years after construction began, this lakeside weekend home 80 miles outside Johannesburg, South Africa, received the long-awaited finishing touch that makes it an...

A quirky mountain refuge by French designer Charlotte Perriand is an ingenious take on small-space living.

To maximize their small Warsaw loft, transatlantic designers Aleksander Novak-Zemplinski and Becky Nix handcrafted a fleet of double-duty furnishings.

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

Thanks to designers Nina Tolstrup and Jack Mama, an aging workshop in London’s once-gritty Bethnal Green is reborn as a cheery home.

Working with a limited footprint, a daunting slope, and killer views, architect Bruce Bolander went vertical with a secluded canyon house in Malibu.

How is a 921-square-foot, 44-level house possible? Witness Tokyo architect Akihisa Hirata’s mind-bending, shape-shifting solution to small-space living.

Two linked 1,000-square-foot pavilions are greater than a sum of their parts.

Faced with the challenge of a diminutive New York apartment in desperate need of a refresh, architect Tim Seggerman went straight to his toolbox to craft a Nakashima-inspired...

You could call it the next frontier of architecture and design, but you have to close your eyes to “see” it. The ear inhabits a space, and captures a place, more acutely than the...

San Francisco philanthropist Ann Hatch has long dedicated herself to the making of artful objects.

A five-step program for those suffering from too much stuff and not enough space.

Good Small Spaces start with Good Small Occupants. Now, it could be that you’re one of the few who are hardwired to live compactly.

With less stuff, you’ll need fewer square feet to jam it into. But how small is too small?

Creatively separating your functional needs is a key component of Good Small Design—it’s all about overlap, nesting, and double duty.

Daylight is the lifeblood of a Good Small Space.

The final step in the creation of a Good Small Space involves its connection to the 2.5 zillion square feet that exist outside your 900.1

Residents of this contemporary home in Koriyama, Japan, squeeze out every cubic inch of storage, courtesy of a centuries-old design concept.