Think Smaller: Homes Under 1,000 Square Feet

In Oakland, California, two designers transformed a 100-year-old barn into a (very) cozy home of their own by redefining the functionality of walls and windowsills.

By creatively manipulating the angles and levels of exterior surfaces on this modest Polish country house, architect Peter Kuczia achieved exceptionally high solar exposure,...

Our homes generally celebrate design you can see, but throw open the closet doors and behold a new frontier.

As Jarmund/Vigsnæs’s growing crop of small, smart houses have garnered increasing attention, their equally prolific civic works have them poised to be Norway’s next big export.

Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700 square feet rarely looks this effortless.

After buying a modest Cliff May home in Beverly Glen, the architect residents purchased the neighboring cottage by Case Study House builder Rodney Walker, developing both into an...

While the Western world forgets its waste with a flush, 2.6 billion people don’t even have toilets. A writer ventures to the World Toilet Summit in search of sanitation’s future.

Simon Alderson and Tony Cunninham of London–based high designer purveyors twentytwentyone talk kitsch versus collectible and the integrity of good design.

As anyone who has been to Peru, or Bali, or Timbuktu can tell you, travel is not merely the experience of going somewhere.

Effective airport designs are often underappreciated, as it is easy to take them for granted when things go smoothly.

A century ago giant airships—–blimps and zeppelins and such—–were considered the future of air transport, but with their safety called into question by the Hindenburg disaster and...