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Can chopping down trees to build a house be an act of preservation? Mike and Barb Collins cleared about a hundred trees from the Leelanau County, Michigan, lot they bought in 2012 in order to make way for a vacation home. About 40 of them were ash tr

@ArchitectMM Your “Editor’s letter” spoke directly to my heart and to what I believe resides at the core of my own design practice. Thank you for your words to live by: “Choose to be extraordinary.” —Wendy Polins Cool to open Dwell to see Exhibit Col

Lately we’ve noted an uptick in feedback from readers asking about the absence of artworks in the homes we feature. While some residents intentionally eschew works that interfere with their house’s lines and views (page 90), it’s certainly not the no

Living in harmony with nature means something a little different to everyone. For a woman born and raised on Maui, it’s an idea rooted in her childhood in Wailea, before the area mushroomed into a booming tourist destination. “There were just beautif

Beverly O’Mara, an artist and teacher, and Mark Uriu, owner of a residential painting and finishing company, needed a place to work from home. So in 2014 the couple embarked on transforming a 2,700-square-foot loft located in an 1890 Wells Fargo hors

Whether you prefer sleek, bold or somewhere in between, you’ll find the series of Jenn-Air appliances that’s perfect for your kitchen. Every series features appliances designed to perform as beautifully as they look, with innovative technology, sophi

Zen-like in its simplicity, the weekend home of Michael Neiswander and Nick Corsello is an Eastern oasis tucked into the mountains of North Carolina. Michael is a principal architect at ASD/ Sky and Nick is a media and entertainment attorney. The cou

Simon and Sarah Younger had only toyed with the idea of building a new beach house beside their shack in Dunalley, Tasmania, when the property was razed by a bushfire in 2013. After the smoke cleared, the Youngers turned to architect Stuart Tanner to

Mill Valley, California, is not the town that time forgot—although it can sometimes feel like a modern-day Middle-earth. Folksy and friendly, the wooded enclave 14 miles north of San Francisco is traversed by a creek and a multitude of hiking trails,

From the wall of windows in Eleni Katsarou’s 33rd-floor Chicago condo, Lake Michigan looks like an ocean: flat, endless, and constantly intriguing. That view is what drew Eleni, who grew up in Athens gazing at the Aegean Sea, to purchase the two-bedr

Ask any two people from New Haven what Firehouse 12 is, and you’re almost bound to get two different answers. To music lovers, the restored 1905 fire station on Crown Street is Connecticut’s preeminent venue for experimental jazz, a place where artis

You and your husband, architect Daniel Libeskind, have worked closely since founding Studio Libeskind in 1989. How do you describe your role? I am not an architect, nor am I a businessperson. But I think it’s the glue that helps to stick things toget

There’s a controlled bustle inside Fireclay Tile’s factory in tiny Aromas, California. Workers shuttle racks of dried but unfired tiles fresh from the heater, warming the air as they pass, while a 25,000-pound extruder nicknamed “the Junior” forces m

After living for four years in a small, dark apartment in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, architect Hernán Landolfo and his girlfriend, Lucia Gentile, were looking for a new home where they could eventually start a family. They had rejected a nu

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When Pam and Paul Costa moved from Milwaukee to Silicon Valley—via their employment at Apple—they dreamed of building their own home, just like some of their friends and relatives had done back in the Midwest. But they discovered that this rite of pa

When creative director Martin Ringqvist and his wife, My, a teacher, moved back to Sweden after a year in Los Angeles, they wanted an authentic, warm space to live in with their two children. After much deliberation and house hunting, they found what