The New Landscape: Designing With Nature in Mind

New varieties of outdoor rooms are becoming must-haves for homes.

Connected tech can take the hard work out of having a green thumb.

London designer Benjamin Hubert and his studio connect human-centered work with an entrepreneurial attitude.

A designer adds another layer to an ever-evolving family home.

Landscape architect Thomas Woltz is lending a human scale to the Manhattan megadevelopment.

A sustainable cabin in the Bahamas offers a respite for a Florida family.

The exhibition “Broken Nature” at the Triennale di Milano explores design and the Earth’s inevitable uninhabitability.

A pair of eco-minded architects build a house on a platform in the Catskills watershed.

Christian Harvey and Victoria Davies take on the restoration of a Grade II-listed masterpiece: the Farnley Hey house by Peter Womersley.

Generations come together in a pair of homes on a single property in Vancouver.

A renowned chef blends his culinary philosophies into the design of his home in Taiwan.

A literary couple embrace the quirks of a California modernist. Twice.

A house with a pinwheel-shaped plan becomes a wide-open home for two art and design collectors.

A homebuilder transforms a 53-foot shipping container into an island getaway.

The founder of architecture and design firm Reddymade reflects on the importance of a box of pastels she’s had since childhood.

Clams, oysters, and their kin have played a surprising part in how and what we build.