Inspiration

Spanning continents, scales and specialties, these top studios are driving architectural innovation, elevating the way we live and build.

The City of Angels is associated with film sets and midcentury modernism, and architects have both s haped and been shaped by La La Land.

Behold additions with ambition — home extensions that treat the act of adding on as an architectural recalibration.

What do firms and, more broadly, the architectural profession need to do in order to create a place where architects grow instead of grind?

Cyclopean masonry and a Trombe roof system demonstrate a locally driven path toward genuinely afford able, low-energy housing.

From adaptive reuse campuses to climate-shaped coastlines, this guide reveals why Shenzhen should be viewed as a testbed for future cities.

A London studio proving that real collaboration with craftspeople yields details no digital workflow can fake.

From Cape Town to Durban to Johannesburg and everywhere in between, these are South Africa's best ar chitecture firms.

Architects keep prototyping the future, but can we debug the world with design alone?