The project specs for 1111 Lincoln Road.

In the Pantheon of Building Types, the parking garage lurks somewhere in the vicinity of prisons and toll plazas.

Not long ago, the ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, was like many of the objects it houses: an antique earthen-ware vessel, astonishing for what it was in its day, but not something that worked well for everyday use in modern times.

In the world of architecture, it isn’t unusual for projects to fall victim to shifting priorities or changing financial circumstances and subsequently stall or be shelved indefinitely.

While the symbolic program for a synagogue is distinct, as  an iconic structure it lacks the identifiable architectural typology of, say, a  Gothic-style cathedral or a domed mosque.

Like a pair of jugglers, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe approached the Integral House, in Toronto, as a balancing act—creating a building that seems to defy basic forces of architecture.