Stephen Zacks

FMT Estudio gives a stark and dated dwelling a playful renovation that embraces the sunny climate with lush courtyards and a...

Kiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli combine a few clever paint jobs with a sprinkling of Goti’s polychrome object designs to evoke a...

The apartment had potential with windows looking over the city’s biggest green space, so a young couple traded out its old rugs,...

A strategic renovation with a striated facade helps a New Orleans homeowner meld his modern ambitions with his more historic home.

A Bangalore couple build a simple, sustainable getaway in the city’s relaxed, leafy south side so that they can spend weekends...

A designer and an exporter build a shipshape country escape that sits lightly on the land.

Assembledge+ expands a century-old Hancock Park house with a backyard living space for the homeowners’ eldest son.

Sitting lightly above the eelgrass, the tiny dwelling serves as a port of entry for a family getaway on the Salish Sea.

Clad in cypress and charged with color, the North Fork getaway of author Julie Satow and editor Stuart Elliott is something to...

In the trendy neighborhood of Dublin 8, Studio And upgrades a 1920s pebble dash house for a creative couple on a tight budget.

Moliving’s luxe cabins will complete Hurley House, a lakeside retreat set to open this summer in upstate New York.

Few homeowners have as clear a vision of how to compose a design brief as Trish and Andrew McKechnie.

Mexico City’s Taller Aragonés debuts the Pi Home, an energy-efficient modular home that can be assembled in just 45 days.

In Zaragoza, the humdrum exterior of a working-class home goes unmarred, but inside are flowing, loftlike interiors.

The founder of Raúl Sánchez Architects restyles his dated corner unit behind a chamfered facade in Barcelona’s Poblenou area.

Inside an old restaurant erected using pieces of the Trophy of Augustus, architect Jeremy Biermann layers in more locally sourced...

Bestor Architecture reimagines a 1959 midcentury for a family of four by playing up its Hawaiian design influences.

Imagined by Jeffrey Day of Actual Architecture Company, the sharply angled structure rises at a 12-degree slope that suits the...

Near-zero interest rates may have the long-term effect of inflating home prices and setting up another financial crisis.

Architect Barbara Bestor layers surprises throughout the home, which she designed to fit within the partial footprint of an...

With the help of 3D laser scanning, Ensamble Studio excavates a quarry on the island of Menorca to create an experimental retreat.

Design, Bitches turns a typical Atwater Village home into a lush hideaway with a new, cedar-clad guesthouse.

Scholars of housing segregation have described blockbusting as a tool of racial capitalism.

A decades-long housing policy that segregated U.S. cities still plagues Black communities today.

Architect Kirsten Schwalgien converts the former stable of a famed Catalan modernist building into a contemporary loft.

Tom Marble designs a calm retreat overlooking Silver Lake for a Buddhist devotee and hospice nurse.

Architect and surfer Kenichiro Iwakiri renovates a beach house for himself in Shonan, a region of Japan known for its surf spots.

An engineer hires BattersbyHowat Architects to design the perfect Passive House on a hillside overlooking English Bay.

Designer Leah Hudson-Smith and musician Wally Maloney build a bedroom and music studio within a lofty warehouse—all on a...

Wielding design as a tool for empowering underserved communities, these visionary Black architects and designers are paving the...

Architect Michael Peled completely flips the layout of an apartment in Haifa to take advantage of treetop views.

This compact apartment in Vancouver’s Armoury District has an inspired solution for bringing light to the ground floor.

Modeled after New England barns and surrounding a shared garden, these sustainable homes form a forward-thinking co-housing...

A pair of eco-minded architects build a house on a platform in the Catskills watershed.