Inspiration: Stories

Cover homes combine the cost efficiency and short build times of prefabrication with quality materia ls and bespoke, architect-designed detailing.

The project’s exterior is a nod to the Japanese traditional craft pattern of sukashibori.

We conducted interviews with the inhabitants of a noteworthy building to better understand how they interact with, perceive or react to design features on a daily basis.

“There’s a convergence between the artificial world and the biological one,” says Carlo Ratti. “Our buildings, our cities, can start to respond to us as if they were living beings.”

These photos of ice-engulfed lighthouses are sure to send shivers down your spine. Formed under very specific circumstances, these pasty kraken emerge annually on the shoreline of Lake Michigan each winter. Their alluring formations are enough to entice the hot-weather-loving photographer, Tom Gill, to photograph their sculptural encasings every year. To grow your very own…

Bergmeisterwolf designed double glazed panels that sink magically into the ground.

Warning: This floating cabin might unleash your childhood fears.

This feature has been created in collaboration with SPIRIT OF SPACE. Spirit of Space is an award-win ning filmmaking collaborative seeking to communicate the spirit of the people and places that build contemporary architecture, art and design. SHoP Architects has produced some of the world’s most iconic and recognizable architecture in recent years. The firm’s projects…

Wellness can mean different things to different people, from peak physical fitness to clarity of min d to pampered states. And each of these, in turn, can be fostered — or hindered — by spatial or experiential design of the facilities built to support them. We take a look at a handful of projects where design…