Cool Design: Underground Eco-Friendly Mansion Complete With Subterranean Pool
For those wanting to lessen their negative impact on the environment, the best place to build is down. Known as “underground homes” or “low-impact houses,”...
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5 Creative Uses for Ladders in Modern Spaces
Ladders aren't just for lofts—check out these contemporary spaces that are creative as their twists on the traditional climbing structure. Above: “I thought it would be nice...
8 Amazing Alpine Cabins, Huts, and Hideouts
Over the years, architecture of the Alpine region has evolved from simple timber structures to innovative, sophisticated, and eco-friendly buildings which capitalize on the large...
9 Luxe Listings Around the Tri-State
$24.5 million, 146 Waverly Place When a townhouse’s cellar puts to shame most people’s entire houses, it’s time to sign the damn papers. The cellar here is...
Tiny Condos Aim to Lure Millennials to Take Home Ownership Plunge
As more millennials graduate into better paying jobs, marriage and parenthood, real estate developers are doing all they can to entice this renter-nation generation to...
Small Cabin Community Rises in The Woods of N.Y. For A Weekend Retreat
Five years ago, Zach Klein, a successful tech entrepreneur then in his late 20s, was living in New York City but dreaming of the wilderness....
Interesting Design: How The Mason Jar, A Farming Container, Became Modern Culture’s Vessel Of Choice
In the mid-1970s, my parents fled the New Jersey suburbs to build a house in rural New Hampshire, where my mother tended a large vegetable...
Open House: Architect Unloads Industrial Flatiron Loft
SHoP Architects is known for its cutting-edge designs, from supertall towers like 111 West 57th Street to massive schemes like the Domino Sugar Factory. So it...
Cool Design: Innovative Skylight Window Easily Transforms into Rooftop Balcony
It’s now possible to transform a skylight into a small balcony by simply opening its frame. Danish window company Velux has designed Cabrio, a dormer that’s...
Latest NYC Amenity: Buildings That Keep You Healthy
New York City can be a dirty place. Garbage litters the streets, exhaust clouds the air and microbes breed on subway poles. But to reassure...