Inspiration

Portland’s airport flips the script on function, trading urgency for ease and rethinking what it mea ns to truly arrive.

Five projects prove that with ingenuity, even the narrowest lot can redefine its neighborhood.

Workspaces are no longer what they once were — and the architecture of commercial buildings is adapt ing accordingly.

Retooling an ancient technique into a sophisticated cladding system, material expression doubles as structural ingenuity in this façade.

Designed to weather future challenges, this flood-resilient, pollution-aware design pairs precision with playfulness for Shanghai's sponge parks.

Think Ruskin, but with better daylighting and insulation.

Home to incredible ethnic, ecological and cultural diversity, Ecuadorian architecture reflects this hybridity — and the acumen of its native firms.

As architecture is sold in pixels and slogans, the discipline is reckoning with its transformation i nto product, lifestyle and brand.

From infinite loops to mirrored voids, these designs prove that stairs don’t always have to go somew here.