Inspiration: Stories

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.

Neri&Hu’s New Shanghai Theater modernizes a character-less 1930s theater with heavy gray stone, flut ed bronze walls and bold geometry.

Studio 304 transforms a bathroom and kitchen in a small London apartment into a stunning oasis.

“Right now, the dominant geographies are geographies of extraction; they’re geographies of power,” s ays Saskia Sassen in an interview with Ibai Rigby of urbanNext.

WOJR’s Mask House, a concept for a private home in Ithaca, is a naturally dark and sheltered design practically invisible to the naked eye on a dense, foggy morning. WOJR’s incredibly realistic rendering of the home allows viewers and the client to easily imagine what it’d be like to escape inside this ethereal scene.

Filled with spirit and sunlight, Fernanda Canales’ Reading Rooms are small but bright cultural sanct uaries for Mexican communities in need.

Each of the three boxes rotates independently to accommodate new spatial arrangements.