Two Cottages—Renovated Using Less Than $150K—Embrace Living With Kenya’s Wildlife Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner of Studio Propolis recycled materials and DIY’ed construction to build their Nairobi retreat.
No, 83 Isn’t Too Old to Renovate. Just Ask San Francisco Resident Roberta Gordon After inheriting her family’s hillside home, the retired teacher made adjustments that would support her lifestyle for the years...
An Unorthodox Houseboat in Sausalito Gives Its Owner Permission to Play Architect Craig Steely drew from the area’s bohemian history and traditional Chinese motifs to create this unique floating haven.
Q&A: Walter Hood’s Vision for Renewing Neglected Urban Spaces The celebrated Oakland artist and designer wants policymakers to reinvest in written-off neighborhoods.
A Trio of Schindler Houses Brings Together Three Design-Minded Los Angeles Families Architect Steven Ehrlich of EYRC leads the charge renovating these side-by-side properties.
This New Old House Danish design impresario Jens Martin Skibsted works with architect Jürgen Mayer H. to update a Norwegian-style, 19th-century home...
Lights Will Guide You Home A harsh climate and a hillside site inform a Nova Scotia getaway’s regional accent.
A Family Guesthouse Made for Accessibility, Aging in Place—and That View With both an aging relative and a wheelchair user in mind, architect Neal Schwartz creates a family guesthouse designed to be...
Futuristic Forms Meet Historical Details in Designer Danny Venlet's Brussels Home A prolific Dutch designer by way of Australia rebuilds his roost in Brussels.
Goodbye Grid and Cushy Beds, Hello Pool in the Wilderness An off-the-grid house that is little more than a decked campsite—albeit with a roof—includes a swimming pool for a family that...
A Desert Prefab Hits the Jackpot in Sin City An art-filled retreat fits right into the landscape.
This Home is Complete with an Indoor Jungle A skylit conservatory doubles as a verdant dining parlor in Sonoma County, California.
An Architect Sculpts Out a Tadao Ando-Inspired Backyard This backyard is its own modern retreat in the Berkeley Hills.
This House Doesn't Hold Back on Colorful Details A see-through pool wall is just one element of this vibrant home.
16 Groundbreaking Dutch Designers to Know Now An exhibition heralds a new wave of Dutch designers plying technology and craft.
"A Home Should Never Feel Like a Hotel Lobby" Designer Jaime Hayon offers a personal tour of his home in Valencia, Spain, sharing his design thinking along the way.
Budget-Friendly Renovation of a Neoclassical Home in Oslo A pair of designers in Oslo, armed with tricks for introducing color and daylight, remake their compact late-19th-century...
Ingenious New Building Method Replaces Concrete Block with Rammed Earth A new spin on rammed-earth construction aims to bring the method to the masses.
A Picturesque Desert Prefab Jim Murren’s prefab house in Sin City, designed by Marmol Radziner, is as artful as it is art-filled, thanks to an asymmetrical...
A Two-Part Landscaping Renovation in San Francisco In an unusual collaboration among birds, wind, and one of San Francisco’s leading landscape architects, a California designer has...
Frank Tjepkema Frank Tjepkema founded his industrial design firm, Tjep., in Amsterdam in 2001 and has since produced objects in scales from...
New Duivendrecht Industrial designers Frederik Roijé and Victor le Noble founded New—a manufacturer of contemporary pieces by young Dutch...
A Corbusier-Inspired Parisian Home An American architect in Paris experiments with Corbusian perceptions of interior and exterior space.
This Couple Achieves Their Glass House Goals Two linked 1,000-square-foot pavilions are greater than a sum of their parts.
Maker's Mark San Francisco philanthropist Ann Hatch has long dedicated herself to the making of artful objects.
New Dutch Design: Aldo Bakker Familiar objects take surprising new forms in the hands of experimental designer Aldo Bakker.
Just Redo It What do you get when you give a couple of designers unlimited creative license on a very limited budget? For Andrew Dunbar and...