“On the first day on the project, we decided to fly it off a cliff,” says Brian MacKay-Lyons, describing the simple wood and steel–frame residence his firm designed. 

A median strip along busy Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver is an unlikely place to find an enigmatic tower of latticed wood.

Agoura Hills, California, is an affluent bedroom community 30 miles northwest of central Los Angeles, marked by lush valleys and broad canyons.

In sleepy Bedford Corners, New York, 40 miles north of New York City, houses can command eight-digit prices.

The future of food is already here. Everyone's favorite bit of technological wizardry, the 3-D printer—coveted by architects for models and others for its ability to extrude raw materials into three-dimensional forms—could one day be the standard in personal and commercial-scale food prep.

In an age of lightning-fast mobile devices that provide access to information with the swipe of a finger, books can seem archaic.