Inspiration: Collections

Made with carefully articulated façades and thoughtful material transitions, these designs showcase emerging building trends in Paris’s historic legacy.

Corrugated sheets are composed of metal that is galvanized and cold-rolled to produce an instantly r ecognizable building material. This pattern is commonly used in agricultural or industrial buildings because of the high bending strength of the sheet in the perpendicular direction, as well as the low maintenance needed. Today, the benefits of corrugated sheets are…

Ideas require space. Produced through a lengthy process or a creative spark, ideation and innovation are intimately tied to our surrounding environment.

Architects, citizens and New Yorkers rejoiced several weeks ago when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to revamp the perpetually infuriating confusion that is Penn Station. Since the original Penn Station was torn down in the early 1960s to make way for an office tower and Madison Square Garden, the city has mourned the loss of…

Chilean architecture is having a moment. Since the end of the country’s dictatorship in 1990, there has been a rise in the number of architecture schools as a result of a new economic system that permits private universities. This has been partnered with an evolution in the approach of Chilean architects, from remote coastal areas…

Nature preserves, national parks, historic heritage sites and other spaces of significant environmen tal scenery are some of the most visited sites around the globe. People flock to them to bear witness to the awesome power of nature, which can instill a sense of wonder and amazement at the variety and beauty found in the natural…

In cities around the world, space that was once fully given over to utilitarian functions such as hi ghway interchanges, elevated rail lines, waterways and streets are being wrestled into the public domain for the use of the pedestrian. Areas once shunned as unfit for utilization or enjoyment by anyone or anything other than the type…

These buildings are designed to frame the act of discovery and analysis.

This set of patina’d projects demonstrates how beauty sometimes comes with a little wear and tear: