From a field of 140, seven world-class architecture firms have been selected to submit proposals for the Barack Obama...

Here are the front-runners for Community Pick across eight categories.

Artistic director of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, Yesomi Umolu is at the center of an energized design capital.

When Carly and Brad Moeller were searching for a new home in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood of Chicago, they came across a...

If your only experience touring Chicago is from watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, architect Brad Lynch has some insider tips for...

We asked an expert jury and our audience to choose the best projects of the year.

The 10 finalists in New York's CityRacks Design Competition have been announced—and more importantly, prototypes of their designs...

In Chicago's Wicker Park, the conversion of a two-flat Italianate building into a single-family home calls for a modern,...

Take a tour through Chicago’s first passive house, built by Brandon Weiss of Weiss Building and Development LLC with the help of...

The partnership builds on each company’s design-focused ethos to create encaustic patterned tiles in versatile shapes and colors.

Set in an industrial concrete-and-glass building that was once home to an Italian cheesemaking company, the Ace Hotel's latest...

Born as a horse stable, the Brick Weave House in Chicago is all about transportation and transparency.

Andreas Kokkino persuades his mom to toss all her old furniture and start fresh.

Aptly named The Publishing House, a just-opened bed-and-breakfast in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood avoids the kitsch of...

The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA|LA) has announced the top nominees for the 9th-annual Restaurant Design...

Tucked in a Chicago suburb, the Courtyard Residence celebrates the outdoors while responding to the needs of each family member.

Landmark West Loop is a love letter to Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.

Situated on a 3.3-acre riverside lot in DeKalb, Illinois, the 1977 residence includes a full-height stone fireplace and a...

AvroKO—the hospitality design firm with serious muscle—expands its growing empire with an inaugural project in Chicago, Momotaro.

A strategic rewire enhances a spec house’s gut renovation.

It's often said that rooms are furnished by books.

The 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial builds on the research of this year’s artistic director, David Brown, who believes...

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was just bestowed upon six boundary-pushing projects.

Since 1963, Stepstone has been manufacturing handmade, precast concrete products elegant enough for any location—such as the...

A massive exhibition and a new permanent design museum put the past, present, and future of the city’s design community in focus.

The new homeowners of the Frost House investigate the history of their modular home and its contributions to the prefab movement.

See the incredible stories that made Dwell Magazine a Medal Finalist in two photography categories in the Society of Publication...

Preview the Editor’s Letter from our January/February issue, written by Dwell founder and CEO Lara Deam.

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming November/December edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

Once ashamed of his lackluster Chicago abode, architect Brad Lynch tore it down and started over with a family home that’s part...

In the art-filled River North neighborhood, this former Prohibition-era hotel is building a sense of community

Despite its compact urban setting, prefab homes are becoming increasingly favored in Chicago, Illinois.

Here are the design headlines you need to know, including Kanye West announcing his plans for the Yeezy brand to establish an...

It has been nearly half a decade, but the Dwell Home II is back! Construction began this winter in the hills outside Los Angeles,...

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming September/October edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

A stay on the quaint New England island is a summer ritual for the Obamas, who visited seven times over the president’s eight...