The City Life: Apartments We Love

The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm.

When Cecilia Tham and Yoel Karaso of Habitan Architects bought their first-floor apartment in an 1894 block of the Fort Pienc neighborhood of Barcelona in 2005, they knew they...

On a former brownfield site across the river from downtown Boston, a renovated turn-of-the-century lithography factory trades in carbon copies for a lighter carbon footprint.

From sitting and sleeping to lolling and loitering, these new sleeper sofas are workaholics of relaxation—on either the day or the night shift.

Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of midcentury furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great contemporary designer.

When graphic designers Jeanette and Mike Abbink left behind their loft in San Francisco—with collected ephemera, a voluminous library, and a parcel of paintings in tow—they didn’t...

In Ørestad—Copenhagen’s tiny but buzzing new hub of urban development—a mountain rises from the flatlands.

Best friends since middle school, Casey Patten and David Mazza have a passion for their up-and-coming slice of Washington, DC, matched only by their commitment to making you the...

Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste. While the beer and candy aisles of the store were heavily trafficked, the back “household goods” section was not.

Good design isn’t inextricably wed to a high price tag. These classic designs run the gamut of types and prices.

Bad design can be not just unattractive but unhealthy. Steer clear of this trio of second-rate offerings.

When it comes to great product design, the material is often the message. Matuse’s wetsuits prove why.

We asked three product designers from three different fields what the future holds. Oddly, none of them mentioned crystal balls.