Inspiration

Architects use brise-soleil as solutions to overheating in many hot climates with long days of direc t sunlight.

Considering environmentally friendly design and numerous benefits of the earthship, a 100-percent-su stainable housing form.

Enrique Norten's architecture aims to completely blur the boundaries between public and private real ms.

Large-scale projects and masterplans are reshaping urban morphology. What do these redevelopments lo ok like at the scale of architecture?

Known to some as the Banksy of India, street artist Daku (Hindi for “bandit”) has often taken a crit ical stance on controversial contemporary issues with his work. His latest text-based installation, titled Time Changes Everything, prompts reflection rather than agitation. Mounted perpendicularly to the façade of a white building in Delhi’s Lodhi Colony, letters cast…

For product design to move forward, sometimes it has to look backward. That’s the logic Italian ligh ting brand Karman applied to its latest collection, which references historical, traditional and archetypal objects and ornament with modern twists. NotreDame NotreDame is named for the famous cathedral for good reason: Its lace-doily pattern, rendered in resin and marble…

It is said that great art should provoke fierce responses, both positive and negative. By this crite ria, few architects would have a stronger claim to greatness than Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), the idiosyncratic Catalan master known widely as “God’s architect.” His best-known work, the still-incomplete cathedral La Sagrada Familia, was described by the modernist architect Louis…

The importance of “place” in architecture is often used to communicate the extraordinary relationshi p between a building and its site. “Place” is more than simply location, it is the agglomeration of well designed elements that evoke a visceral emotion within a building’s occupants. When considering this concept of “place” for mobile architecture, the definition becomes…

A pioneer in coating products that transform ordinary surfaces into writable ones, IdeaPaint came up with, well, a new idea: What if we took brainstorming and collaboration on the road, literally? “For years, our customers have been telling us they need something to complement our dry-erase paint, to have options throughout their space that were…