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• 5 Highly Imaginative Adaptive Reuse Projects

  

  Welton Becket's 1955 New York Life Insurance Company Building in Los Angeles had undergone a series of less-than-faithful additions by the time architects... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 6 Rooms That Bring the Outdoors In

  

  While most sliding glass walls open to private yards at the back of a house, the architect of this Manhattan Beach renovation, Dean Nota, uniquely opened the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 6 Modern Wood Coffee Tables We Love

  

  In this Houston town house, a sturdy wooden coffee table brings the outdoors in to a small living space and appears to make the dogs feel right at home. Photo b... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Renzo Piano's Jaw-Dropping Design for the Whitney Museum

  

  The Whitney Museum's new Metapacking District home opens May 1, 2015. Asymmetrical in form, the structure gleans inspiration from the industrial-commercial... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 5 Edible Urban Gardens Good Enough to Eat

  

  In Brooklyn, WORKac designed a teaching classroom at P.S. 216 elementary school that channels runoff rainwater from its roof for reuse in its... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 10 Design Gifts for Mother’s Day

  

  Originally inspired by components of Bower NYC’s furniture line, the Forma Sculptural Candle Set began as a small sculpture. After deciding that the piece neede... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 5 Impossibly Idyllic Cabins

  

  This cluster of cabins in Norway is designed to facilitate family togetherness, while allowing space for private meditation. The central cabin provides... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 7 Inspiring Water-Wise Landscapes

  

  In light of California’s water shortage, Cassy Aoyagi’s drought-tolerant landscapes feel incredibly prescient. This Los Angeles home showcases some of... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 10 Award-Winning Green Buildings Across North America

  

  Created by Skidmore, Owings Merrill, University Tower at The New School in New York's Greenwich Village features a green roof, 20 percent recycled materials,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Branch Out: 8 Modern Tree Houses

  

  Artist Radamés “Juni” Figueroa crafted this sustainable tree house in the Puerto Rican tropics as an inventive take on the exhibition space. Image courtesy of... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Game-Changing Ideas for a Sustainable World

  

  Designed for the Future is available from Princeton Archtiectural Press for $25 and covers ideas on sustainability from architects, curators, landscape... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Five of the World's Most Innovative Sustainable Designs

  

  Since architect Mies van der Rohe led the European expansion of the International Style into the U.S., Germany has held its prominent place as innovators of... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 7 Groundbreaking Landscape Designs

  

  For a steeply-sloping yard in Berkeley, architect Mary Barensfeld created a Japanese-inspired garden that rises 17 feet above a 400-square-foot patio.  Photo... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 11 Emerging Talents You Should Know from Salone Satellite 2015

  

  Barcelona-based designer Alex Ortega exhibited these crimped metal display shelves. They might not be able to handle your weightiest tomes, but we were smitten... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• 8 Sustainable Products in Honor of Earth Day

  

  Modern Sprout’s planters were designed by Nick Behr and Sarah Burrows, two Chicago apartment dwellers who wanted to grow their own garden, but didn’t have the... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Earth Day Inspiration: Prefab Pavilion Celebrates Nature in the Heart of Chicago

  

  The structure is designed to open up the pond ecosystem to visitors and serve as an outdoor classroom space. Image courtesy of Studio Gang. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Not for Wallflowers: 6 Homes with Daring Wallpaper

  

  At this former Dwell staffer's Brooklyn apartment, “Ziggy Diamond” wallpaper from Flavor Paper creates a backdrop that's bold but also lets the art in front of... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• This Cozy Retreat Holds the Cure for Cabin Fever

  

  The family retreat abuts a rocky cliff in Herfell, Norway. The central cabin provides communal living spaces, whilse the two cabins that flank it are used as... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• Modern Furniture Made in Portland

  

  Designed and built at Revolution Design House's workshop in Portland, the modular Boxcar Bench is made to order (from sapele, walnut, or ash) and is available i... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN

• A Forgotten Insurance Building Finds New Life as a Humming High School

  

  Contemporary on the inside and modernist on the outside, this school stands as a model of successful and sensitive adaptive reuse. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 HOME, INTERIOR DESIGN