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A Boston Photographer's Live & Work Space
Dwell

Originally featured nearly 6 years ago in the January/February 2004 issue of Dwell, the ideas in Boston- based photographer Kent Dayton's home and workspace are still fresh — especially the or...

Color Happy in West Roxbury
Design New England

The current issue of Design New England features the colorful West Roxbury, Massachusetts home of interior designer Rachel Reider whose signature "soft modern" style effortlessly blends the past wit...

A College Hill House by Friedrich St. Florian Architects
Providence, Rhode Island

Providence’s steep hills offer some killer views, and this residence designed by Friedrich St. Florian Architects takes full advantage of them. We’re not surprised that Rhode Island Monthly chos...

Ricardo Bofill's Cement Factory Home
LoftLife

We received this impressive peek inside architect Ricardo Bofill's Barcelona home and office via LoftLife — it's an abandoned cement factory that Bofill found in 1973 and has adapted to highli...

Maison Amtrak: The Home of Peter & Sally Cohen
Dwell

While they like to joke that their modernist home in the forest of Ellsworth, Maine "resembles a typical train derailment," architect Peter Cohen and his wife, Sally, have created a lovely home rece...

XSmall House by UNI
ArchDaily

The XSmall House is one of four homes on two adjacent lots in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The owners and designers are Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk of UNI — a multi-discipline design studio have ...

Repurposed Provincetown Firehouses

While in Provincetown, it’s tough not to notice how many converted firehouses there are. As if Cape Cod couldn’t get any more rustic and charming, how about having a beach home where the front d...

Hilltop House by Maryann Thompson Architects
Truro, Massachusetts

It may be a little late in the season to still be dreaming about vacation homes, but this summer house on Cape Cod designed by Maryann Thompson Architects is worth fantasizing about. ...

The Obamas' Martha's Vineyard Vacation Home
Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest features an inside look at the Martha's Vineyard house where President Obama and his family recently vacationed. The Victorian house is part of 28-acre Blue Heron Farm, which has...

Architectural Ups and Downs: ArtInRuins Website
Rhode Island

History buffs, architects, and urban explorers alike will find much to love at ArtInRuins.com, a website that chronicles the rise, fall, and rising again of Rhode Island’s historic buildings. ...

Affordable Artist Live/Work Studios by DBVW Architects
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ve got to love a city where being a starving artist can get you some fantastic perks. An affordable ($547 per month!) AS220 live/work studio designed by DBVW Architects and located right in th...

Cape Cod Modern House Trust
The New York Times

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust was founded two years ago in an effort to "preserve significant Modernist architecture on the outer Cape". The New York Times gives us some more insight into the new ...

John Derian's 1789 Provincetown House
Martha Stewart Living

In the September issue of Martha Stewart Living, the entertaining feature takes us to the Provincetown retreat of New York store owner and expert in all that is découpage John Derian. Built i...

The Citadel: Floating Dutch Apartment Complex
Inhabitat

Though we've looked at house boats, yachts and floating homes in the past, The Citadel is an entire apartment complex that floats! Part of The Netherlands' initiative to embrace their watery surround...

Manchester-By-The-Sea Passes for Alaska in The Proposal
The New York Times

Working in Boston's photogenic factory district, Ft. Point, we're no strangers to Hollywood's occasional invasion. But we were genuinely surprised to discover that the small North Shore town of Manche...

Survey: Have You Ever Done a House Swap?

Apartment Therapy has posted before about the concept of house swapping but we're wondering how many people have actually taken the leap. We're nervous nellies at heart so the idea of doing a swap, ...

Oceanfront Castle for Sale
Rhode Island

We realize that not everyone (or anyone?) has 7 million dollars to throw at a fixer-upper historic castle these days, but … well, we can look can’t we? Located in the town of Narragansett, Rhode...

Geodesic Domes Around the World
Quazen

The human-interest site Quazen has rounded up different example of geodesic domes from around the world — full globes, half domes and Buckminster Fuller originals. We've pulled our favorites f...

Rosecliff Mansion: Gilded Age Style
Rhode Island

Over the weekend we stopped by the Newport Flower Show at the breathtaking turn-of-the-century Rosecliff Mansion, which, like many of the historic Newport mansions, has been carefully preserved and ...

Casa Q by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects
Gorraiz, Spain

Shielded in a glass facade that has been screen-printed with a pattern, this house outside of Pamplona, Spain is striking in its simplicity from the exterior. Designed by Vaillo + Irigaray, the inte...

Livingston Taylor's Teeny-Tiny Cabin
The New York Times

Check out this 300-square-foot home on Martha's Vineyard. It's the retreat of singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor (brother to James) and sits on four acres with a freshwater pond. The New York Times...

Katie Brown's Cabin in the Berkshires
The New York Times

click thumbnails for larger pics Katie Brown, host of Katie Brown Workshop on PBS turned a run-down cabin in Buckland, Massachusetts into a weekend home for her family — complete with barn, pla...

Modern Cape Cod Beach House by ZeroEnergy Design

click thumbnails for larger pics This large beach house on Cape Cod is the weekend and summer home for a large Boston family — the home owners often share the space with their adult children an...

Modern Cambridge Cottage For Sale
Boston.com Home of the Week, 1.18.09

Ever dreamed of living in a house that was featured on the cover of Dwell Magazine? This 1,500 sq.ft. renovated cottage in Cambridge near the Alewife T graced the cover back in 2005 and is now for s...

Karl Lagerfeld's New England Home
Grand Isle, Vermont

We're late to the game on this — but we're still a little fascinated! Uber-celebrity designer Karl Lagerfeld purchased a traditional brick home in Grand Isle, Vermont this past October. The ho...