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Pluralistic notions of Becoming shape the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026
Jun 23, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 23, 2026
In anticipation of the upcoming symposium in Barcelona, STIR lists the panels, keynotes and parallel events that spotlight architecture’s embeddedness in planetary networks.
Resonance by Studio Lugo layers material memory with the ingenuity of making
Jun 20, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 20, 2026
Founder Doruk Kubilay’s latest collections, Resonance and Mother and Daughter, transform cultural heritage, craftsmanship and material experimentation into collectible designs.
Concéntrico 2026 dissects urban fictions, temporalities and ecologies
Jun 18, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 18, 2026
The six-day festival in Logroño is conceived as an urban laboratory with 24 temporary projects exploring materiality, collective memory and engagement in public spaces.
Kadre Architects transform a dilapidated motel into an inviting housing complex
Jun 17, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 17, 2026
Located in East Compton, California, Hub City Heights is a 40-unit permanent housing project with a flexible framework and an expansive parking lot-turned communal courtyard.
STIRpad: a launch pad for your new
by Amit Gupta Jul 01, 2021
Explore STIRpad, our brand NEW digital launch pad to help creators, studios, galleries and manufacturers share and demonstrate their NEW collections, exhibitions, special projects, new designs, collaborations, milestones and much more...
Backrooms: Tales of hauntings and disembodiments in junkspace
Jun 25, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 25, 2026
The recent A24 film, Backrooms, illuminates popular culture’s fascination with liminal spaces, and the disorientation we associate with their eerie affect.
Michael Sorkin’s manifestos for radicality for People Who Cross Against the Light
Jun 19, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 19, 2026
Marking the first retrospective of the American architecture critic and designer’s work, People Cross Against the Light: Michael Sorkin’s New York insists on a new radicalism.
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: Controversy and the critique of unconventional art
Jun 19, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 19, 2026
The gallery presents the largest retrospective of the modern artist in the last 50 years, enlivening eternal debates about what ‘real art’ is for 21st-century audiences.
How long can we continue performing neutrality under the spectre of war?
by Debika Ray Jun 04, 2026
Protests, strikes and exclusions at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale are exposing the fragility of the international order on which the cultural world is built.
Max Milà Serra’s kinetic objects are engineered as invisible tools of perception
Jun 11, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 11, 2026
In a conversation with STIR, the Barcelona-based designer talks about the creative ethos and visual language behind his ethereally complex objects and installations.
Global Design Forum Istanbul framed multiple lived worlds of design in contact
Jun 02, 2026by Jigyasa Sharma, Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2026
Presented in collaboration with People Places Ideas, London Design Festival’s global design discourse—held outside London—attracted the passerby as much as design specialists.
On wells, depth and colour: All is Well at RALPH PUCCI International, New York
May 22, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 22, 2026
STIR in conversation with Ralph Pucci and Eric Schmitt discovers how the former’s journey mirrors the latter’s belief that great design quietly outlasts its own time.
Gabriela Carrillo on the intuitiveness and vitality of brick in a precarious world
Jun 01, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 01, 2026
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