A couple’s retirement home on a nature preserve in Carmel, California, emerges as a series of eco-conscious pavilions that rest...

Conceived as an extension of the Arizona landscape, this eco-friendly, modern house approaches near net-zero energy consumption.

A Southern California architect approaches his family home as an experiment in sustainable design.

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.

Western Red Cedar and exposed concrete meld together in a nature-inspired retreat knitted into a challenging hillside.

In the high desert landscape of Yucca Valley, California, the rectilinear Graham Residence cuts a striking figure against the...

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

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.

For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.

If good fences make good neighbors, then Shino and Ken Mori are the best neighbors ever.

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

A storied 1980 party house enters a mellower chapter of intimate gatherings filled with canapés, crooners, and cocktails.

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

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

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be showcasing several homes of creative individuals we admire in the Bay Area—and we’re...

Based in Brooklyn, New York, Future Green Studio is cultivating beautiful and sustainable landscapes throughout NYC, one...

For her cheerful, butterfly-roofed house, designer Susie St. John thinks ahead with an entry ramp and wheelchair-accessible halls...

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

Faced with the unique challenge of renovating the work of mid-century master, design principal Stephen Shoup of building Lab...

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.

A Canadian family’s getaway in the California desert.