Inspiration: Collections

Each project draws critical attention to the expanses of vertical space — an orientation frequently cut short by low stifling ceilings.

Metal façades radically redefine building envelopes. Exploring enclosure, surface and envelope, each project reinterprets the surrounding context to shape spatial experience.

Here are some of the most interesting — and strangest — contenders in the worldwide mission to eradi cate pollution.

Throughout the following projects, these enigmatic terraced staircases act as the pulsing heart of e ach design and provide unique arenas for alternate approaches to meeting, co-working and carrying out the work day.

These contemporary projects bring ships to moor — permanently.

Explore seven examples of visible storage, modular apartments, bespoke furniture and all-around "mac hines for living."

The parti structures space. A ribbon parti becomes bands, paths and connections to shape circulation , gathering and experience.

Through the use of netting, the following projects and architects — just like children — audaciously imagine and create uncommon possibilities.

Long after Pugin, architects continue to find new ways to incorporate signature Gothic style with co ntemporary flourishes.