Recycled Marine Plastic Covers This Former Whaler’s Tavern Turned Home in the Azores

A prefab construction style melds with stone ruins and environmentally friendly cladding.

By Grace Bernard

Construction Diary: How a Chocolate Bar Inspired This Austin Architect’s Hill Country Home

“We opted to do a modular system where everything is the same,” says Miguel Rivera. “This is what we call a Hershey bar—you know, with the grid of small rectangles? We used six-foot modules.”

By Rachel Gallaher-Zenz

With a Wall of Curved Glass, This “Boxy” Utrecht Home Finally Found Its Flow

HOP Architects reimagined the ground floor with an Art Deco–inspired extension that connects the common areas to the garden.

By Isabelle Kliger

Why You Should Care About Siding as a Material Choice

With extra-thick boards, durable fiber cement construction, deep shadow lines, and crisp mitered corners, Hardie® Artisan® Siding turns a familiar facade into an architectural masterpiece.

Presented by James Hardie

It’s Easy Being Green at This $1.2M Passive House in Minneapolis

Designed by an architect as his personal residence, the solar-powered building uses 90 percent less energy for heating than typical homes, and it has an envelope that’s about 13 times more insulated.

By Grace Bernard

Yes, “Cleanfluencers” Really Do Like Scrubbing That Much

In a corner of social media known as #CleanTok, some people’s “declutter with me” vlogs and ASMR household wash downs have turned them into full-time content creators.

By Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick

The Owners of This Vintage Furniture Shop Want You to Take a Chance on a Worse for Wear Armchair

John Perez and Raquel Bahena, the owners of Chicago’s Normalish Studio, share how they approach every piece like it can be repaired.

By Jinnie Lee

The Stahl House Still Hasn’t Sold—and Everything Else You Need to Know About This Week

Beyoncé’s Houston center to fight homelessness officially opens, even millionaires are tightening their furniture budgets, and more.

A Sustainably Designed Modern Home on the Upper Delaware River Valley Hits the Market for $1.2M

A finalist in 2010 for our very own “Houses We Love” feature, the bold facade takes on an almost sculpture-like form within the trees.

You Can Buy an Entire Venetian Island With a Napoleonic Fort for €5.5M

Dating back to 1806, the property comes with a converted villa, two moorings, and waterfront views of the floating city.

Seeking $775K, Ron Fridlind’s Tucson Compound Is a World of Its Own

Over four decades, the architect and tinkerer transformed a modest desert home into a tapestry of Japanese minimalism, landscaped courtyards, and sculptural oddities.

This New Zealand Tiny Cabin’s Glass Sliders Are So Big They Hang Off the Side

A frame extending past the envelope lets them move completely out of the way of the view.

Eleven Types of Tile Lay the Groundwork for a Home Renovation in the Tuscan Countryside

The architects brought in five geometric patterns, three solid colors, and three types of terrazzo.

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