Dwell’s 2020 Wrap-Up: The Best Stories We Published This Year

From the most spectacular to the most shared, these home tours, essays, interviews, and guides topped the charts.

Dec 24, 2020 - 00:34
Dwell’s 2020 Wrap-Up: The Best Stories We Published This Year

From the most spectacular to the most shared, these home tours, essays, interviews, and guides topped the charts.

From the most spectacular to the most shared, these home tours, essays, interviews, and guides topped the charts.

Just in case you missed them, we’ve rounded up our favorite and most popular stories from 2020. Some of the compilations below are more straightforward—the best prefabs, the best kitchens—while others illuminate our work investigating the pressures of the pandemic, economic inequality, and climate crisis on design. Reflect on the passing year with the can’t-miss articles below.  

Top 9 Dwellings of 2020

Working closely with an arborist, the design team installed concrete piers in areas that would be within the drip lines of trees to enable the home to cantilever out and come close to the oak trees without damaging them. "It’s almost like an acupuncture needle," says architect Peter Tolkin. Areas of the home that needed plumbing and other services were located over more traditional foundations that were well clear of the trees.
Top 9 Renovations of 2020: Out-of-the-box thinking led to the stunning transformations nominated for this year’s Dwell Design Awards.
Top 9 Prefabs of 2020: These best-in-class prefabricated homes are vying for your vote in the Dwell Design Awards.

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