Joann Plockova

Slipped between trees on a three-and-a-half acre lot, this long, narrow, modern cabin was designed to preserve and highlight its natural surroundings. Architecture firm Far + Dang aimed to create a “white canvas in the woods” by cladding the minimalist weekend home in a contrasting white metal façade. “When you’...

Across the United States, the lack of affordable housing in areas close to city centers has resulted in single-family residences that have been sub-divided to be shared by multiple inhabitants – and frequently, families with multiple generations.

For design legend Debbie Millman, design is the decisions we make, and the decisions we make compose our lives. That’s why, for Millman, the founder and host of legendary podcast Design Matters, design matters so much.

The first time fine jewelry designer Emily P. Wheeler viewed the place she would call home, she loved it so much she cried.

This arched two-bedroom, two-bath house is built below and beside an active 19th-century railway viaduct in South London.

Like healthcare itself, healthcare spaces have typically been designed in a one-size-fits-all model. But as new standards of care are making their way onto the marketplace, so too are spaces that support them—and ultimately their users.

AMSTERDAM — In his late 60s and set to retire in March 2021, Hans Moerkerk, a Dutch water management professional, has plans to move into a 1,500-home development that aspires to be the smartest neighborhood in the world.

Every Thursday, Henk and Elly Oving take care of their young grandchildren. They don’t have to travel far. They just go downstairs.

“I’ve always been interested in art, design and architecture,” says gallerist Melanie Courbet, explaining what led her to start her contemporary-design gallery, Les Ateliers Courbet.

The impact of COVID-19, says Sam McNally, co-founder of Echlin, a London-based architectural studio, has extended to the way we view our homes. “Suddenly, we’ve had to find space for activities we’d traditionally have left the house for,” he explains. But he offers an elegant solution.

These brilliant pieces helped shaped the country’s creative output from the postwar era to today.

Set on a sloped plot above Prague in the city’s Troja district, Villa Sophia has no keys, no light switches and a piano that can play by itself.

In south London, a Victorian house has a new extension clad in black aluminum, with a distinctive three-fold roofline. The work has transformed a cold, dark area that the owners used very little into a bright, open-plan space that is now the hub of the home.

Iwan Baan

MONTPELLIER, France — “It looks like a toothbrush. It’s quite strange,” said the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He was speaking about his first project in France, a mixed-use residential tower in Montpellier where, thanks to 300 days of sunshine annually, outdoor living is part of the lifestyle.

BERLIN — In Berlin, the architectural firm Rundzwei recently completed a residential project called the Korkenzieher Haus, or Corkscrew House.