Diamond in the Rough (and Ready) Architect Ken Meffan's ten-years-in-the-making home is in the tiny Northern California town of Rough and Ready—a term that might...
Two Houses Are Better Than One Or is one house better than two? For Santa Monica–based architect Jesse Bornstein and his family, both are true.
How This Couple Broke The Rules in a LA Suburb In a code-happy Los Angeles suburb, how do you break the mold without breaking the law? Architects Alice Fung and Michael Blatt...
Invincible Cities The exhibition "Harlem 1970-2009: Photographs by Camilo José Vergara," opens at the New-York Historical Society on April 30, but...
This Place Matters May is National Preservation Month at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and to celebrate, they've rolled out a new...
Urban PUMA One of the wonderful things about living in an unhinged time is that no one has any clue what's cool anymore.
Sea Ranch in the Suburbs Whether you consider it democracy at work or architectural sacrilege, the online retailer
houseplans.com has begun selling...
A Tale of Two Tiny Cars Now that gas prices in the U.S. are hovering around two dollars a gallon, what's happened to green driving?
Designing Detroit If the Great Recession has an unofficial mascot, it's Detroit.
The Jonathan Tired of waiting for innovative architecture to come to San Diego, this proactive architect added developer to his job...
Periodic Table of Typefaces The Periodic Table of Typefaces (Popular, Influential & Notorious) is an online project by graphic designer Cam Wilde.
Bigboxology 101 Now that the last laptop computer and toilet-paper dispenser have been liquidated from the once-mighty Circuit City, some very...
Living Las Vegas They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but once you leave, you may have trouble banishing Sin City from your mind.
My Favorite Thing: David Greene's Mid-Century Coffee Table In this installment of My Favorite Thing, Dwell contributing editor David Greene tells us about the Heywood-Wakefield birch...
Religious Landmarks of L.A. As a young city built on the ruins of a Spanish mission, Los Angeles has never had much of an architectural "cathedral culture."...
Spy Vibe: 60s Movie Set Designs Spy Vibe is a new fansite dedicated to the costume and set design of spy and space movies and TV from the 1960s, full of...
Amazon's Kindle 2 On February 24, online retailer
Amazon.com begins shipping its Kindle 2, the newest version of Amazon's electronic book reader.
What the Font? Ever ask yourself, "Is that Arial or Helvetica?" (Or for type snobs, "Is that Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?") Then WhatTheFont may...
On the Ground in New Orleans In keeping with today's impromptu New Orleans theme, Luke Weldon Perry's blog, The Incremental House, is featuring a...
Taj for All As the financial apocalypse takes shape, perhaps at its borders will be the early 21st century phenomenon of insanely expensive...
All the Names That Are Fit to Print The Names Brand is one of those incredibly simple business ideas that's either a stroke of genius or a flash in the pan (or maybe...
Loading.... Pretty Loaded is an online museum of "preloaders," those animated countdowns that inform visitors that their mind-blowing web...
Modest Modern Shopping List Next month, Chad Ludeman, president of the firm PostGreen, will move into the first completed 100K House, an infill development...
Circa 1955 With all the romanticism about mid-century modernism, it's fascinating to crack open a time capsule and see how people really...
Googie Gas It's an understatement to say that we're living in a weird time, but when it comes to all things automotive, it's especially...
How Small is Too Small? The first few paragraphs of a recent New York Times article on architect Gary Chang's Hong Kong apartment read like a scene from...
Yes We Kamm Now that the 2010 Honda Insight has been road-tested, and the 2010 Toyota Prius redesign has been revealed, it's time to find out...
Art Folks at Home I don't know about you, but I check theselby.com, photographer Todd Selby's website, weekly to see if anyone I know, admire,...
Cover to Cover Design The Book Cover Archive is exactly that; an online compendium of the best book cover art and design of the last few decades, as...
Sun Mun Way Cool In Los Angeles, California, a family of four inhabits a polychrome fantasia in the heart of Chinatown.
Modern Mixed Use in San Diego When Im and David Schafer moved in together they faced the challenge of combining the contents of David’s 880-square-foot loft...
Method Lab Designer Jennifer Siegal’s own house is a modest 1920s Spanish bungalow on the leeward side of busy Lincoln Boulevard in Venice,...
Sing for Your Supper, Kid Though it was released in 2006, lately I've been appreciating David Weeks' Sing Sing Dinner Plate.
Porsche Sled Driving gloves, check. Aviator sunglasses, check. Hair gel and minty-fresh breath spray—check.
Bük 'em, Danno For fans of good design, great writing, and smart cultural objects, consider the Bük.
Google Maps Vacation Even though fuel is cheap, in the current economy some of us may feel like we have to forgo vacations to conserve cash.