Inspiration: Collections

Utilizing natural materials, artful detailing and poetic sequences, the designs explore layered encl osures and intimate scales.

The internet is rich in sources of both inspiration and procrastination for architects — magazines h ave harnessed the online platform superbly to give our industry greater exposure than ever, and many have mastered the art of going viral on social media, expanding their audience exponentially. But the web has also given individuals a voice that…

In contemporary architectural projects around the world, traces of Mies persist in form and material details, lines of architectural poetry that allude and confirm his timeless adage.

It’s all very well coming up with a stunning architectural concept like Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera Ho use or Maurice Koechlin’s Parisian tower, but when it comes to the crunch, even the most inspiring of forms need to be rationalized in order to become a reality. This means that architects owe much to the world’s best…

In a time when catering to minds and bodies is insufficient, spaces must engage our eyes with a refi ned sense of aesthetics while we break a sweat.

Hong Kong is defined by superlatives. As the world’s fourth most densely populated sovereign state, the autonomous territory balances one of the highest per capita incomes in the world and severe income inequality across its seven million inhabitants. The Special Administrative Region also holds the second largest number of high rises of any city in…

Behold Cram's imaginary metropolis of columns, domes, crowns and spires.

Alain de Botton believes in the idea of the home: a hopeful, genuine place where we might “slowly re sume contact with a more authentic self, who was there waiting in the wings for us to end our performance.” Walter Benjamin also believed in the idea of the home, but thought the opposite: “The private individual,…

Like walking on air, each design creates a rare moment of wonder and surprise.