Bring the Outside In: Amazing Outdoor Spaces

Dwell editor-in-chief Amanda Dameron talks us through Dwell's June 2015 issue.

In coastal Norway, a guesthouse serves as a sculptural refuge.

Lawrence Halprin galvanized people into action with his grand cityscapes. The landscape architects of today are following his example—but at a different scale.

Andrea Cochran, a 2014 National Design Award winner, applies a site-specific approach to tease out the ephemeral and sensory.

With new natural features and recreation opportunities, rivers in city centers across America are getting a chance to shine again.

More than a half-century ago, Houston's flood-prone Buffalo Bayou was unceremoniously turned into a straight sluice to carry excess water to the Gulf of Mexico.

Field researcher and water-harvesting expert Ed Beaulieu analyzes our conservation options for the future.

How Kettal, a furniture company in Spain, remains a vanguard of outdoor design.

After years of neglect, Mellon Square in Pittsburgh reemerges as a 21st-century public space.

Architectural elements and applied foliage deliver a one-two punch in designing for privacy.

A young architect transforms a small row house into a deceptively roomy family home.

A pair of innovative dorm buildings push boundaries without showing off or upstaging their setting.

A forward-thinking group home in the 20th arrondissement channels a midcentury spirit.

A couple embarks on a new life together by establishing a homestead on a dilapidated lot in a buzzworthy corner of San Francisco’s Mission District.

A skylit conservatory doubles as a verdant dining parlor in Sonoma County, California.

A Washington, D.C.-based architecture professor takes his students to remote outposts to create modern structures steeped in history and myth.

An adventurous family envisions a dream getaway on Sweden’s southwestern shore.

A 1940s bungalow literally raised the roof in Vancouver.

An adventurous indoor-outdoor home by the Boston practice Höweler + Yoon Architecture acts as a beacon for three generations of a tight-knit family.

After three years ashore, a Copenhagen couple return to the city’s waterways on a floating home for two.