This sun-filled residence brings a suburban California site closer to its untamed roots.

Spatial efficiency meets energy efficiency in this Bay Area home designed by an architect for his parents.

The flora comes first at a leafy enclave just minutes from downtown Palo Alto.

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

Seeking simplicity and open space, a Boulder-area couple settled on a wooded hilltop with views of the mountains and the city.

A freshly blackened veneer is the face of a San Francisco tract house’s Cloud-based reinvention.

Courtyard House in Menlo Park, California, encourages a family with two teenagers to be independent while staying connected—to...

From a shipping container dwelling to architect Steven Holl’s forest retreat, these residences embody the ideal that what’s best...

From a carbon-negative cabin to a prefab farmhouse, these resourceful designs captivated readers this year.

Back by popular demand, the Dwell Home Tours series will make its way back to Silicon Valley this year.

"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz.

For a couple’s forever home, SB Architects draw from resort design to effortlessly blend indoors and out.

The aptly named Butterfly House by William Duff Architects puts a spacious courtyard at the center of activity.

636 Waverley’s “ribbon” of concrete defines bright, pleasant spaces while providing weather protection.

“It’s the new French embassy,” jokes architect Mary Maydan, who turned a previously botched Eichler into a home that’s as warm...

Perkins & Will designs a mountaintop Passive House that takes energy efficiency to the next level.

Bright, airy, and only a few hours away from Manhattan, this modern woodsy house is the last dwelling available at Hudson Woods.

Studio eM Design’s rammed-earth home in Corrales, New Mexico, updates the regional adobe archetype into a hallmark of sustainable...