A vibrantly colored house in suburban Milwaukee projects shades of summer all year long.

An eye-catching addition to a historic block in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood combines craft and an industrial aesthetic.

A Bay Area firm creates a customized mountain retreat for outdoorsy clients.

When architects—or politicians, for that matter—speak of walls, they usually see them as boundaries dividing one place from another.

Urban dwellings can feel highly compartmentalized, composed of segregated levels.

When music executive Joe Galante retired from his post as chairman of Sony Music Nashville in 2010, he and his wife, Phran, were ready to shed their frenetic, high-profile lifestyle.

“I am interested in the idea of an ‘essential architecture’ in the tropics,” says Panama City–based architect Patrick Dillon, who was born to American parents and raised in the Canal Zone.