Inspired by aesthetic biological assemblies, chemists have explored innovative approaches to manipulating intermolecular interactions in order to create sophisticated supramolecules with functions. Metal coordination-driven self-assembly indeed leads to facile preparation of welldefined nanostructures. However, due to the lack of general principles that could be applied to structure prediction, it remains challenging to construct elaborate metallo-supramolecular architectures in a rational way. To this end, delicate molecular design for building blocks, careful examination of assembly mechanisms, and expeditious methods for structural characterization should be addressed. Here, we discuss our recent advances in the aspects of ligand design, selfassembly methodology, and mass spectrometry analysis of terpyridine-based metallo-supramolecular complexes and highlight the merits of their dynamic features as well.