The event was structured like a fast-cutting series of TED talks, with 15-minute investor-friendly presentations on everything from "emotional cartography" to biologically inspired buildings.
There are the fall leaves, of course, and candy corn-esque banners draped from the early 20th century inspired buildings.
The rippling facade has inspired the building's nickname: the Wave.
Then, in the eighteen-seventies, the construction of an elevated train on Ninth Avenue — it suspended service in 1940, after the A/C/E subway lines began service — inspired a building boom.
The day after Yellen's speech in Chicago, I visited her at the Fed's headquarters, in Washington, in a classically inspired stone building with oversized bronze double doors facing Constitution Avenue.
As home buyers began returning to Atlanta's city limits during the 1990's, there was a spate of industrial conversions that inspired the building, or overbuilding, of recent-vintage loft complexes.
Once based here, Mr. Salmona created a body of work inspired by building traditions ranging from those in northern Africa and southern Spain, where Moorish influences were present, to indigenous civilizations in the Americas that predated the arrival of Iberian conquerors.
An engrossing account of the comparatively cheap, usually dirty fuel that supported the Industrial Revolution, inspired the building of canals and railroads to move it, and once made London and Pittsburgh famous for their air.
So far, the 88,000-square-foot Seneca Niagara Casino, which opened last year, has not inspired a building frenzy in the city, where a chemical and manufacturing industry once thrived.
The success of Amanresorts, founded by Adrian Zecha, inspired the building of many superluxurious boutiques.
MIT graduate student David Merrill was inspired by building blocks to design computerized blocks called Siftables.
