Inspiration

Name each of these buildings and their architects from drawings alone.

The wood used to make the concrete molds is often sandblasted to exaggerate the impression of the gr ain left on the concrete.

The noodle bar is a distinct typology that has come to represent a space to share the culinary histo ry and build on the legacy of the noodle.

Their album investigates the profound link between the human experience of the built environment and musical association and affect.

The Columbia University Medical Center’s new state-of-the-art medical and graduate education buildin g — the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center — now looms large over the neighborhood. The 14-story glass and concrete tower, located in Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan, was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler and forms an extraordinary…

Architects prize the gabion wall, traditionally used as a landscape material, for its bold, textured look

Mirrors have had a place as a building material for a long while, from the Hall of Mirrors in Versai lles to the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Speaking to the later example, the glassy material is especially popular as glazing on windows and other external walls, as a rather attractive skin. Its characteristics – luminance,…

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?