Inspiration

It’s become somewhat of a New York City design community tradition, and recently it returned for its fifth year ­— the annual Duravit summer party cohosted by Architizer. With the Rio Olympic Games right around the corner, the festivities took on an Olympics theme, which, in a sense, was a throwback to the very first…

It’s hard to think of a color more strongly associated with cutting-edge architecture than white.

Expanding beyond the iconic Giza pyramid complex and the Great Sphinx, the following collection look s at modern Egyptian cultural projects.

For the most part, commuters don’t stop to notice the complexity of the systems they use to get arou nd each day. Like water and electricity, the smooth operation of the rail system is mostly taken for granted, commanding attention only when something goes awry. Counteracting our collective apathy, Tomoyuki Tanaka’s ballpoint drawings of Tokyo’s train…

The traditional craft of hydraulic cement tile making, in which the pattern is inlaid with pigmented cement as opposed to printed on a substrate, offers a bold and vibrant look for any wall or floor, making it as popular today as when it was first invented in the 1800s. Now Sausalito, California–based Clé is shaking…

If there’s one word that describes the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Qu eensland, Australia, it’s “open”. With very few interior walls, there’s nothing but air between the majority of its studios, lecture halls and pin-up corners. All these spaces occur over, around and on top of each other, slipping past themselves through…

Explore some of London’s most iconic Brutalist housing developments, revealing their history and rem arkable architectural language, in all its imperfect glory.

These homes represent an approach to building that is uniquely rooted in Ecuador’s distinct environm ents.

Since purple is seen so infrequently in architecture, it tends to attract attention whenever it's us ed, but it should be wielded carefully.