Prefab Homes 6 Big Names Who Are Unexpectedly Getting Into the Prefab Gamedwell - Lucy WangFrom Amazon to Kanye West, these six world-renowned individuals and brands are making big moves in prefabricated architecture. What do Yves Béhar, Kanye West, and IKEA have in a common? In addition to
Prefab Homes 6 Eco-Minded Prefab Companies in Seattledwell - Lucy WangAs an environmental leader, Seattle is a hotspot for sustainable prefab home companies. Last month, Seattle proposed new legislation to make it easier than ever for homeowners to build accessory dwelling
Off-grid 6 Off-Grid Prefab Homes For Self-Sufficient Livingdwell - Lucy WangWhether you’re looking to lower your carbon footprint, retreat into nature, or simply reduce your utility bills, get inspiration for your off-the-grid dreams with these modern prefabs. Living off the doesn’t
Prefab Homes This Hurricane-Resistant Prefab Is Made From More Than 600,000 Recycled Plastic Bottlesdwell - Lucy WangIn Nova Scotia, a prefab beach house makes history as the first-ever home built with PET core foam technology. On a casual evening over beers, David Saulnier and Joel German were kicking around ideas industry
San Francisco Bay Area Here’s What San Francisco’s Most Expensive Home on the Market Looks Likedwell - Kathryn M.Offered at $45,000,000, the residence spans an entire city block at the base of the famous Lombard Street. Gather up that loose change—designed by Troon Pacific, this 9,500-square-foot property known Residence
Home Building A Thoughtfully Restored Pasadena Post-and-Beam Lists For $2.1Mdwell - Jennifer Baum LagdameoA midcentury post-and-beam by architect Calvin Straub is brought back to its original intent. Although Calvin Straub originally designed 725 Burleigh Drive to be his own personal residence, the noted architect
Home Building Legendary Architect Steven Holl’s Y House in the Catskills Hits the Market For $1.6Mdwell - Kathryn M.This luminous home branches out like a forked stick—and it comes with 33 acres of pristine mountain wilderness. Located in a lonely mountain setting less than an hour's drive from Albany, New York, the
Home Building This Quirky Abode Built By a Frank Lloyd Wright Apprentice Wants $575Kdwell - Kathryn M.Designed in 1966 by Wright’s student Herb DeLevie, this home in Madison, Wisconsin, includes an unusual converted sunroom. Located in the capital city of Madison, Wisconsin, The Max and Arlyne Hurwitz
Frank Lloyd Wright This Rare 1909 Frank Lloyd Wright Home With a Cathedral-Like Living Room Asks $900Kdwell - Kathryn M.As one of the few remaining Wright designs with a two-story living room, this century-old residence is ready for new owners to reinstate its former glory. Set on a wooded lot in the Chicago suburb of Illinois,
Home Building A Surprising London Townhouse Filled With Intriguing Geometry Asks $2.4Mdwell - Kathryn M.This late-’80s home by Sean Madigan and Stephen Donald features a facade of recycled bricks and a hollowed-out concrete pillar at the core. Take a walk along Murray Mews, a cobblestone side street in and
Home Building Dolce & Gabbana Part Ways With Their Vibrant Italian Villa on Stromboli Islanddwell - Kathryn M.The colorful summer home is as eccentric as its owners, with each room expressing a different shade of their world renowned style. Perched along the coastline of Italy's volcanic Stromboli Island, fashion
Martha's Vineyard Jackie O’s Home in Martha’s Vineyard Is Offered at $65Mdwell - Kathryn M.The vast 340-acre farm includes a Cape Cod-style residence designed by Hugh Newell Jacobsen, the construction of which Jackie oversaw herself. On the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard lies Red Gate Farm,
Home Building Beck’s Former Post-and-Beam Midcentury Home Lists For $5Mdwell - Kathryn M.Designed in 1957 by Buff, Straub, & Hensman for the Frank family, this historic home has a starring role in the Amazon series “Transparent.” This distinctive residence in Pasadena, California, has had
Home Building This 1954 House by Powers, Daly, and DeRosa Features a Koi Pond That Flows Under a Glass Walldwell - Kathryn M.Known as The Hastings Residence, this midcentury home pays homage to the Googie design style its architects are famous for. Along tree-lined streets in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, California,
Prefab Homes Once a Humble 1960s Ranch, This Modern Floridian Oasis Is Now Available For $3.9Mdwell - Kathryn M.Borrowing the Norwegian word for “beach house,” Sweet Sparkman Architects's Strandhus fits right in with its Sarasota Modern neighbors in Lido Shores. Located on the edge of Sarasota, Florida, this bright
Prefab Homes An Award-Winning Home With a Prefabricated Metal Shell Asks $2.3Mdwell - Kathryn M.Designed by Sander Architects, this gallery-style residence in Northern California features a dramatic, curved steel wall at the entrance. Located in the heart of California's wine country, this Galvalum
Prefab Homes One of Richard Neutra’s Stilt Homes in L.A. Hits the Market at $1.4Mdwell - Kathryn M.Thoughtfully updated and structurally reinforced, this is the second of 17 stilt homes up for grabs this year. Built in 1966, each of the 17 "stilt homes" by seminal midcentury architect Richard Neutra
Prefab Homes Own a Brilliantly Converted Brick Fortress in England For $1.5Mdwell - Lucy WangAdapted from a decaying defense tower from the Napoleonic era, this RIBA award-winning home in Suffolk has a surprisingly crisp interior. On a quiet stretch of coast in Suffolk, an early 19th-century tower—a
Prefab Homes A Breathtaking Beverly Hills Home Worthy of an A-Lister Asks $46Mdwell - Kathryn M.Designed to frame awe-inspiring views from Griffith Observatory to the Hollywood Sign, this extravagant estate includes an 84-foot-long lap pool. Hidden behind gates at the top of Beverly Hill's Carla
Prefab Homes The Flying Nest Is a Nomadic Hotel That Travels Around the Worlddwell - Jennifer Baum LagdameoFrench designer Ora-ïto repurposes old shipping containers to create a mobile hotel. Paris–based designer Ora-ïto is taking hotel design to the next level with the Flying Nest. Designed for AccorHotels,
Prefab Homes The World’s Largest Urban Farm Is Opening Next Year in Parisdwell - Duncan NielsenThe six-story, 150,000-square-foot garden is expected to yield a ton of organic produce every day for the French capital. In the Paris neighborhood of Le Marais—a chic zone known for its rich, multicultural
Virgil Abloh Rockstar Designer Virgil Abloh Unveils the First Off-White Home Collectiondwell - Duncan NielsenVirgil Abloh's quietly hip home goods line launches on September 1st. Virgil Abloh has a lot of eggs in a lot of different baskets—he's head of menswear at Louis Vuitton, has artwork on exhibit at the
Prefab Homes This Tiny Home Was 3D Printed in Half a Day For Less Than $2,000dwell - Duncan NielsenSQ3D just 3D printed an entire home in less than 12 hours—and the process used about as much current as a standard hair dryer. 3D printing is changing the future of the automotive, medical, and design
Outdoor Spaces Affordable Shipping Container Tiny Homes Get the Green Light in the UKdwell - Lucy WangEight shipping containers will be recycled into green-roofed homes for low-income residents in Aylesbury, England. London-based Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects (FBM Architects) recently secured planning
Outdoor Spaces A Legendary Film Location For Spy Movies Gets Made Into a Spectacular Five-Star Hoteldwell - Kate ReggevBudapest's Paris Court—one of the most ornate buildings in Europe—is renovated and repurposed into a five-star hotel. Originally completed in the early 1900s during the height of Budapest’s belle epoque
Prefab Homes A New Start-Up Wants to Build a Tiny House in Your Backyard For Freedwell - Duncan NielsenRent the Backyard is building prefab homes in empty yards to provide affordable housing—and they'll split the profits with homeowners. Bay Area start-up Rent the Backyard is making new room in dense cities
Avant-garde Floods Threaten the Farnsworth House Every Year—Now, a Plan to Save Itdwell - Amy DvorakWe visit Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s famed residence to learn how we can help save a major piece of Modernist architectural history. It’s one of the most suspenseful, yet serene, walks you’ll ever take.
Outdoor Spaces Now There’s Proof That Tiny Homes Are Better Homesdwell - Jennifer Pattison TuohyNew research shows that downsizing to a tiny home can cut your ecological footprint by 45%. Downsizing to a tiny home also downsizes your carbon footprint. It might seem obvious that living smaller equates
Outdoor Spaces These Futuristic Homes Can Withstand Severe Conditions—Like 2,300 Degrees of Heatdwell - Duncan NielsenMade of earth-friendly bioceramic, Geoship’s geodesic domes envision a new future for humanity. "A transformational geodesic world is definitely coming," says Morgan Bierschenk, who lived off the grid
Outdoor Spaces East Fork’s Sunny New Glaze Is as Sweet as Honeydwell - Samantha DalyThe limited-edition color, Pollen, launches today in celebration of August, sunflower fields, and pure joy. Let the sunshine in: pottery pioneer East Fork's entire ceramic collection is now available a
