Prefab Made This Super Remote House in the Ontario Wilderness Possible An isolated prefab in Ontario, Canada, demonstrates how factory-built housing can be as site sensitive as traditional...
Glass Walls Wrap a Prefab Boathouse on a Remote Ontario Lake Building Arts Architects transported materials by barge to the rocky shore of Kawagama Lake, and erected the spectacular...
A Tiny Glass Cabin Perches for Wilderness Views in Remote Finland A glass-and-steel retreat in Finnish Lapland is designed to bring its owner as close to nature as possible.
This Home in the Ontario Wilderness Is 12 Miles From the Nearest Powerline An architect designing hospitals in Rwanda first brought sustainability to a lakeside dwelling in Ontario.
A Remote Prefab in Uruguay Is Completely Self-Sufficient In a wild, remote setting in Uruguay, a stunning prefabricated retreat provides urban comfort with minimal impact on the...
Remote Control A family selects prefab to make sure their new home, located 1,700 miles away, is turnkey-ready upon their arrival.
Hand-Made Houses Here at Dwell, we love houses with a good backstory.
This Super Smart, Super Green Prefab May Be the Future of Suburban Living The architecture firm superkül and home builder Great Gulf create a prefab with a self-regulating indoor climate.
This Flat-Pack Prefab Is Designed With Remote Living in Mind In Australia, a manufacturer and an architecture firm create an off-grid home that can be broken down and shipped across the...
A Timber-Clad Prefab Cabin Offers Respite in the Canadian Wilderness A rotating fireplace, a glazed facade, and a cozy sauna complete this wonderful woodland retreat.
A LEED Gold Weekend Home Embraces the Ontario Landscape This all-white LEED Gold home is undoubtedly modern, but takes cues from the historic precedent of the longhouse to bring the...
A Hybrid Prefab in Ontario Drinks In its Lakeside Locale A prefab core cuts down on construction time while site-built additions (like a screened porch) fine-tune the cottage for...
This Exquisite Extension With a Zigzag Roof Was Made Possible by Neighborly Collaboration In London, architect Julia Hamson transforms the dark, cramped kitchen of her Victorian terrace house into a flexible gathering...
A Cabin Made of Hempcrete Rises in a Remote Corner of the Czech Republic Designed by Atelier Lina Bellovicova, House LO marks the country’s first residential project to use hempcrete, a sustainable and...
Not Ready For a Prefab House? How About a Prefab Kitchen. Kitchen systems are a lot like prefab housing: they're designed to be modular but they're endlessly customizable—not that that's...
Two Prefab Prisms Form an A-Frame Retreat in the Chilean Wilderness With an off-the-grid house on a remote mountain, architect Smiljan Radić rebuilds the past.
Dream/Dive Platform Encourages Playful Summer Living Summer is all about experiencing simple pleasures.
Philippe Starck Dreams Up Super Green Prefab System The famed designer on how his modular living system offers a new, greener take on housing.
This Timber Prefab by Manta North Is What Dreams Are Made Of The Scandinavian-inspired prefab—a minimalist design that starts at $179K—is one family’s happy place by the sea.
This House Proves Art Galleries Can Be Super-Friendly An Antwerp home blurs the boundaries between art and design.
A Curved House in Ontario Bends 100 Degrees for Forest Views Way out in the wilderness of Ontario, a curiously shaped house stretches along a tricky ridge.
A Prefab Passive House Takes Root in the Catskills Assembled in just two weeks, the idyllic retreat near Woodstock, New York, realizes a couple’s dream of rural living.
An Ontario Pool House Splashes Out With a Wild, Wavy Roof A historic guesthouse lost to fire is reincarnated as an undulating escape with a swimming pool and kitchen.
A Modern Lakeside Boathouse in Ontario A Toronto firm crafts a serene waterfront structure for a family in Georgian Bay.
A Remote Micro Resort in Finland Comprises a Trio of Timber-Clad Prefab Villas Studio Puisto Architects devise prefabricated modular units that join together and blend with the surrounding forest in Hyvinkää,...
Taylor Made Architect Piers Taylor's renovation of an old gameskeeper's cottage, complete with a castellated roof and sweeping meadow below,...
Prefab, Proven In January 2003, we issued a challenge to 16 architects: Design a modern prefab home for $200,000.
Prefab for Humanity In inner-city Baltimore, Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake paves a path to affordable prefab.
Prefab Pods Create a Super-Efficient Floating Apartment That Shape-Shifts at Sea Michael K. Chen Architecture channels Le Corbusier vibes into a modular and multifunctional holiday home aboard the world’s...
This Hotel in the Swiss Alps Is Made Up of 96 Prefab Modules With 96 prefab modular rooms stacked on top of each other like building blocks, the Revier Mountain Lodge provides one...
A Northern Californian Renovation Brings Warmth to the Wilderness A former architect and practicing artist transforms a neglected property into a welcoming homestead for creative pursuits and...
A Sustainably Built Home in Rural Ontario For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.
GO Home Takes the Passive House Approach to Prefab It can take as little as two weeks to build one.
6 Spectacularly Remote Vacation Rentals Get away from it all—but still stay connected—at these remarkable retreats around the world.
A Prefab House Near Paris Is Designed to Be Bright and Open This prefabricated home in France was built to embrace the neighborhood.
This London Prefab Made of 7 Modules Was Raised in Just One Day Located on a site where two obsolete garages formerly stood is a 935-square-foot prefab home in London's borough of Richmond.