3+ hour, 43+ min ago  (900+ words) The internet is full of ambitious people, particularly when it comes to home improvement. You will find people installing an entire kitchen themselves, buying and renovating an abandoned house, or even digging a series of tunnels under their home. And…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (973+ words) Perched on the side of a hill near the Himalayas is a whimsical house made of mud, stone, and straw that two brothers built by hand. Ansh and Raghav Kumar, a pair of architect siblings from New Delhi, moved to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1518+ words) Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140, 000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island. In recent years, the HBO show "The Gilded Age" has used Marble House as a film set. I visited the expansive…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (252+ words) From nearly the beginning of the United States, Americans have used arches to make visual arguments about the nation's ideals. Ever since, artists have used arches to celebrate U. S. republicanism, including to alert us to the plutocratic and autocratic forces that…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (815+ words) Ten years ago, my husband, Scott, and I moved to West Virginia and started building an off-grid cabin. We knew we didn't want a tiny house, but we also wanted to keep costs and build time as low as possible....

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (948+ words) In a rare convergence of cultural forces, the Neue Galerie New York and its significant collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028, both institutions announced on Thursday. The Neue, which the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1221+ words) Her project, "A Parallel Nature," is a sculpture composed of two 59-foot-tall and 55-foot-wide gray stone walls set in an intricate design, with plants that peek out from the crevices. An array of flowers has been newly planted on the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (917+ words) This article is part of our Design special section on retrofits. For several years, Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish, the husband-and-wife duo and founders of Wretched Flowers, have worked out of their home studio in New Fairfield, Conn. , to create…...

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (1785+ words) In 2026, the affordability crisis is touching every aspect of daily life. At the grocery store, inflation has driven up the costs of products like beef, while people around the world have been feeling the strain of the war in Iran…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (452+ words) This article is part of our Design special section on retrofits. The jewelry district in Providence, R. I. , has shape-shifted through the years. Located southeast of downtown, it was a hub for making adornments beginning in the late 1700s, with costume jewelry production…...