One of my favorite things to hear from readers is that they like to dog-ear our pages and save them for future dreaming and planning. That means we’re doing our job well: highlighting incredible work that inspires others. We choose to underscore challenges and victories that lead to successful design, and though the ultimate expression is highly personal and specific, I think of every home that appears in Dwell as a “dream home.”
What we’ve collected for this issue isn’t just your typical palatial beachfront villa (though we’ve got that covered on page 142). Take the dream of building right in the middle of Bangalore, India (page 62)—a tricky proposition considering the severe space restrictions, but one that a pair of architects accomplished through siting and material reuse. Gesa Hansen’s…