This Secluded, Wood-Clad Longhouse in Scotland Is Cozy Incarnate
Asking £880K, the RIBA award–winning eco home sits perched above the Galloway Hills.
This Palm Springs Prefab Is a “Living Lab” for Its Designer Residents
A pair of prefab experts become test subjects for their own ideas about sustainable living.
This Magnificent Marin Midcentury Comes With Bay Views and a Bountiful Garden
Designed by Joseph Esherick in 1961, the five-bedroom home sits just a stone’s throw away from San Francisco.
You Can Wake Up Poolside at This Forest Retreat in the Netherlands
The rentable home features en suite bedrooms positioned at either end of the its skinny, C-shaped plan for water views from first...
Budget Breakdown: This $250K Prefab Cabin Is an Ode to the Finnish Sauna
Near Helsinki, expat designer Jussi-Pekka Kajaala and Olympic medalist Adam Rippon build a tiny summerhouse dedicated to...
Budget Breakdown: $91K and Vintage Flair Revive a Flat in One of Paris’s Coolest Buildings
A small apartment renovation in Orgues de Flandre—a brutalist ’70s development built as social housing—includes a kitchen-focused...
Budget Breakdown: For $31K, a Brooklyn Family Makes Room for All in an 850-Square-Foot Apartment
A handful of smart reconfigurations to their beloved one-bedroom loft in a former piano factory let the designer couple create...
Budget Breakdown: This Remote Prefab Hideaway Built From Shipping Containers Cost $300K
How Anthrop Abbott Architects designed four modules—complete with a hot tub and cantilevered deck—for a rocky outcrop in South...
Budget Breakdown: $49K of Curvy Cabinetry Solved This NYC Couple’s Storage Conundrum
Architect Fareez Giga deploys a suite of custom built-ins to upgrade a 715-square-foot flat for a bibliophile and a passionate...
A Look Back on Dwell’s First Homes
For our 10th anniversary, we decided to check in with six of the residents we featured in our first year to chat about how the...
The Evolution of Japan’s Modern Houses Tells the Story of Its Postwar Comeback
A fascinating new book chronicles unorthodox Japanese residential architecture over the past almost 80 years.