Inspiration: Collections

Last year’s North American A+Award winners form a comprehensive picture of contemporary design ideas from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast.

Cutting edge design and construction technologies have truly elevated the art of the prefabricated h ome.

These A+Awards-Winning projects are strongly committed to economic, ecological and social sustainabi lity, pushing beyond the bounds of the buzzword.

Section drawings give us a sense of what it’s like to inhabit a building, making them ideal to illus trate the spatial experience of a museum.

Towering minarets, smooth domes, pointed arches and detailed mosaics weave the gold thread of famili arity from East to West.

Conceived by leading European studios, these apartment kitchens provide colorful and spatially-consc ious design inspiration.

Illustrated in section, these cleverly detailed projects are part of a growing trend for raised publ ic spaces around the world.

By treating buildings as living entities, adaptive reuse approaches history as inspiration and malle able matter for building new futures.

From Costa Rica to Bangladesh, a new generation of architects is blending concrete forms and lusciou s greenery.