Inspiration: Stories

The design team modernized a traditional Chinese courtyard home into a new café and office space.

Ark Shelter is a minimalistic, luxury mobile cabin fit for any nature lover.

Architect Mitch McEwen’s project follows a rich tradition of local artists reclaiming Detroit’s aban doned spaces as public commons or art pieces for the community.

Build together. Learn together. That’s the mantra of an architectural course at the University of Ka iserslautern in Mannheim, Germany, where 18 students worked alongside 25 refugees to create a warm, light-filled structure to serve as a temporary home for displaced people. The Community Centre Spinelli Barracks Mannheim is a 500-square-meter [5,400-square-foot] building that was crafted…

Composed of salvaged materials, S+PS Architects’ Collage House is a poetic amalgamation of the surro unding urban landscape.

Spanish studio selgascano transforms a 12,000-square-foot second-story space into a verdant office f or Second Home Lisbon.

Stefano Boeri Architetti envisions a two-tower design covered in trees for China’s up-and-coming sou thern Jiangsu district.

“Will there be more and more beaches as the water level changes? Will our cities become as nice as V enice, which has water everywhere?”

The studio is wrapped in an entirely uninterrupted façade of Corten steel panels, recalling the weat hered industrial skeletons strewn about the island.