Magnetic structural components utilized to permit construction of a wide
variety of structural profiles and to thereby increase design and/or
construction flexibility and choice. The structural components each
include a number of magnets operatively associated with a periphery
thereof to provide a number of points of magnetic connection. In
addition, each structural component has at least one mechanical connector
operatively associated therewith to provide at least one point of
mechanical connection. The structural components can be magnetically
and/or mechanically interconnected to form a variety of different two or
three-dimensional structural profiles of varying complexities.