In Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, where space is tight and the cost of a home averages close to $1,000 per square foot,...

Now that the days are getting longer and the temperatures are rising, consider how a courtyard can bring you closer to nature...

Texas architect Jim Poteet helped Stacey Hill, who lives in a San Antonio artists’ community, wrangle an empty steel shipping...

In a far-flung desert destination, designer Barbara Hill does it again.

For the purist searching for an unadulterated piece of midcentury design, 540 Nichols Street in Norwood, Massachusetts, outside...

Building a small home doesn’t equate to easy lifting.

Seven landscape architects across the United States explain how they mastermind inspired designs showcasing the best of their...

A family home on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula is built to blend in with its lakeside setting.

A teardown renovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comes with a mandate for maximum efficiency.

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

For aesthetically beautiful minimalist, modern, and sleek design, less really can be more.

From city apartments to vacation rentals and boutique hotels, a daring and creative use of colorful paint, textiles, and other...

Murray Legge Architecture creates a flexible, budget-conscious home for a German expat on a shared lot in East Austin.

Garden and living spaces blend together in this Australian dwelling which inverts the classic wraparound veranda.

This courtyard house on the edge of the Berkshires offers both grand vistas and plenty of privacy, thanks to its custom rain...

Sliding panels of glass create a mesmerizing indoor/outdoor flow in this sleek addition.

Cacti and patterned, pink tile add personality to a Manhattan Beach residence that embraces the outdoors.

Set on a sandy bluff overlooking the shores of Lake Michigan, a modern home has been inspired by its magical setting.

Modeled after the traditional courtyard family residences of Thailand, Baan Yo Yen is a Brutalist-inspired house designed with...

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

Not everyone has the luxury of having multiple bedrooms in their homes—but that’s nothing to lose sleep over.

Space-saving solutions from Room & Board beautifully make the most of compact bedrooms.

The nominees for this year’s Dwell Design Awards may be petite, but they pack a big punch.

Landscape designer Bernard Trainor masterminds a seamless garden to surround a Silicon Valley Eichler.

This Napa Valley residence by Feldman Architecture contrasts glass and concrete with evergreens and grasses.

Cedar, reclaimed ipe, and Corten steel combine in a multigenerational home designed to gracefully age in place.

Perched in a converted warehouse downtown, the sun-filled pad boasts 17 windows and six skylights.

With an unusual roof and a ground floor open to the outside, a barn-like house stretches out amidst rolling fields.

In Boston’s South End, a design-savvy couple creates a clean-lined home with a textural surprise.

An earth-sheltered and earthquake-resistant home is built to stand the test of time in an extraordinary Wyoming landscape.

By designing a home with an angled roof covered in sod, architecture firm After Party takes living in the land to the next level.

North of Rio de Janeiro, a holiday home blends into the terrain with reddish concrete walls pigmented to match the native soil.

Effortlessly blending into their surroundings, these modern homes pay homage to Mother Nature.

In an unusual collaboration among birds, wind, and one of San Francisco’s leading landscape architects, a California designer has...

Contemporary and vernacular combine with innovative architectural solutions in the design of this house located at the edge of...

From the ground up, Hiding House combines natural forms, textures, and materials to theatrical effect.