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Inside Qi Yuan: Sun Yuanliang’s live-work courtyard in Suzhou’s ancient city
Oct 06, 2025by Anushka Sharma Oct 06, 2025
An exploration of how historic wisdom can enrich contemporary living, the Chinese designer transforms a former Suzhou courtyard into a poetic retreat.
Jeanne Gang’s design cradles the world’s oldest single malt scotch whisky
Oct 02, 2025by Sunena V Maju Oct 02, 2025
Gordon & MacPhail reveals the Artistry in Oak decanter design by American architect Jeanne Gang as a spiralling celebration of artistry, craft and care.
In Picnic, still life paintings make an argument for pleasure and enjoyment
Sep 30, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 30, 2025
Fundación La Nave Salinas in Ibiza celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exhibition of newly commissioned contemporary still-life paintings by American artist, Pedro Pedro.
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...
Witnessing conflict through form: Mona Hatoum meets Alberto Giacometti
Sep 29, 2025by Deeksha Nath Sep 29, 2025
An exhibition at the Barbican Centre places the 20th century Swiss sculptor in dialogue with the British-Palestinian artist, exploring how displacement, surveillance and violence shape bodies and spaces.
Not Here Not There archives an alternate Lebanon in liminal, fragile architectures
Sep 25, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 25, 2025
Middle East Archive’s photobook Not Here Not There by Charbel AlKhoury features uncanny but surreal visuals of Lebanon amidst instability and political unrest between 2019 and 2021.
ECC Time Space Existence 2025: Future regeneration, present reflections
Sep 18, 2025by Thea Hawlin Sep 18, 2025
An on-ground report in the final few weeks of the ECC’s showcase this year draws on its tenets and its reception, placing agency and action in the present over future travails.
The in-between city: Alternative urban dispositions at Venice Architecture Biennale
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 12, 2025
For Intelligens, participations by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao explore how infrastructure and development prerogatives in Asian megacities are (re)produced for global perceptions.
Reinventing legacy through identity: Inside Hall Haus’ ever-evolving design world
Sep 26, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 26, 2025
In conversation with STIR, the Paris-based collective reflects on practise rooted in culture, accessibility and cohesive energy, along with their artistic direction at Maison&Objet 2025.
Occupy! as a call to resist, disrupt and reimagine space at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Sep 25, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 25, 2025
At one of the closing ~multilog(ue) sessions, panellists from diverse disciplines discussed modes of resistance to imposed spatial hierarchies.
Beirut-based EAST Architecture Studio on working in and with a fragile present
Sep 19, 2025by Zohra Khan Sep 19, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Charles Kettaneh and Nicolas Fayad discuss the value of preservation and why they prioritise small, precise acts of design over grand erasures.
How T. Vinoja maps collective memories of the civil war in Sri Lanka on textiles
Sep 19, 2025by Upasana Das Sep 19, 2025
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