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Extending the table: STIR in conversation with Koray Duman
Apr 02, 2026by Sunena V Maju Apr 02, 2026
An Eid dinner in New York becomes a lens into the Turkish American architect’s ideas of space, migration and community.
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OMA’s New Museum expansion in New York negotiates memory, identity and authorship
Mar 26, 2026by Sunena V Maju Mar 26, 2026
The highly anticipated expansion by OMA, reconfiguring the museum alongside SANAA's original building, is a statement unto urban image, thresholds and uneasy coexistence.
Habitario interrogates domestic spatial biases through speculative homemaking
Mar 02, 2026by Chahna Tank Mar 02, 2026
Conceived by Mexican architect Brenda Isabel Pérez, the research-driven board game draws on the writings of Mexican women authors to question gendered norms embedded in domestic life.
Amoako Boafo and Glenn DeRoche on collaboration and building spaces for art
Feb 24, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 24, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist and architect about their evolving collaboration and architecture as an extension of Boafo’s practice across a four-part exhibition series.
Pinakin Patel on pursuing the essential and The Turning Point of his career
Feb 06, 2026by Akash Singh, Zohra Khan Feb 06, 2026
At Pinakin Patel’s 50-year retrospective at the Nilaya Anthology in Mumbai, STIR spoke to the polymath about a journey spanning decades, disciplines and daring ideas.
DesignTO 2026 and the practice of belonging in contemporary design
Jan 19, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
Glenn DeRoche on architecture that lets you move freely across thresholds
Dec 18, 2025by Zohra Khan Dec 18, 2025
Speaking with STIR, the founder of Accra and New York based DeRoche Projects discusses the intention of abstracting personal memories to invite shared experiences in his works.
Calder Gardens and the quiet power of landscape-driven design
Dec 04, 2025by Sunena V Maju Dec 04, 2025
A firsthand visit and insights from Piet Oudolf show how the art institution in Philadelphia reshapes the relationship between art, architecture and landscape.
Design Mumbai 2025: STIR highlights the best of the edition
Nov 26, 2025by Zohra Khan Nov 26, 2025
As the event’s media partner, STIR reports on the most compelling designers, studios, brands, conversations and special projects set to shape this year’s edition.
Global Design Forum 2025 and the making of meaningful design at/from the seams
Oct 16, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Oct 16, 2025
From sonic architecture to circular economies, this year’s edition of GDF traced how creative practice can bear a language of empathy in a rapidly changing world.
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.
Exhibit Columbus: a time and a place to see the city as a living museum
Aug 30, 2025by Sunena V Maju Aug 30, 2025
STIR visits the 2025 Exhibit Columbus exhibition, exploring 13 curious installations spread across rooftops and streets that intertwine architecture with the city’s memory and culture.
Concéntrico 2025 reimagined Logroño as a site of care, play and protest
Jul 16, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 16, 2025
Through 23 spatial and urban interventions, the tenth edition of this annual architecture festival brought the discipline closer to the rhythms of daily life.
Ai Weiwei’s Five Working Spaces are living studios of resistance and creation
Jul 14, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 14, 2025
The recent architectural exhibition offered an intimate lens on five studios of the Chinese artist, shaped by necessity and defiance at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin.
Paulíny Hovorka Architects designs a brutalist Y-shaped haven in rural Slovakia
Jul 08, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 08, 2025
Rooted in Slovak culture, the Banánka House is an architectural narrative of family, culture and the seamless embrace of nature.
The ocean is “both wound and portal” in Kei Imazu’s practice
Jun 23, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 23, 2025
In Japanese artist Kei Imazu’s new exhibition, The Sea is Barely Wrinkled, the story of a 1629 shipwreck is a metaphor for Indonesia’s mythology, colonial history and ecological future.
Frank Lloyd Wright is the figurative architect of grief in Alison Thumel’s ‘Architect’
Jun 05, 2025by Chahna Tank Jun 05, 2025
In her debut collection of poems, the American poet mourns a personal loss while reframing grief as a kind of architecture.
Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos on balancing acts of belonging to the land
May 09, 2025by Jincy Iype May 09, 2025
Speaking with STIR, the Mexican firm's partner, Fernando Sordo Madaleno, reflects on the multigenerational architectural practice's creative ethos and evolving identity.
Living Places Copenhagen channels Denmark’s commitment to sustainability
Oct 26, 2023by Keziah Vikranth Oct 26, 2023
Led by EFFEKT, the exhibit showcases prototypes of housing units which have a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to existing constructions.
An insight into 'Next Gen: Architecture and Activism' at UIA Copenhagen 2023
Jul 28, 2023by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Jul 28, 2023
Activists and change makers Nyasha Harper-Michon and Councillor HY William Chan discuss the need for activism in architecture at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023.
‘The Cost of Money: Raft’: Mark Cottle’s latest installation at the Mies van der Rohe pavilion
Jul 27, 2023by Manu Sharma Jul 27, 2023
The American artist and architect explores his latest work that repurposes waste, to raise awareness around social and environmental issues.
Tropical Space's 'Premier Office' flaunts a striking perforated brick envelope
Jul 01, 2023by STIRworld Jul 01, 2023
Tropical Space's innovative design responds to contemporary work environment needs by optimising traditional brick use.
Sumayya Vally wins competition to design the Asiat-Darse Bridge in Belgium
Jun 10, 2023by STIRworld Jun 10, 2023
Sumayya Vally pays homage to Congo’s Paul Panda Farnana with her biophilic design that articulates the journey of the colonial history and migrant communities of Vilvoorde.
CLOU Architects creates a bright red flagship store for Hongmeng Car Showroom
Jun 07, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jun 07, 2023
CLOU Architects designs two structures for the luxury used car trader's showroom in Chengdu, where open-glazed facades are emphasised by bright red roof and side envelopes.
Immersive installations by Soo Sunny Park are soaked in reflection and transformation
Apr 23, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Apr 23, 2023
Korean-American artist Soo Sunny Park with her immersive installations debunks the binaries between inside and outside fields.
Ai Weiwei’s fields of congregated objects and memory at the Design Museum, London
Apr 08, 2023by Anmol Ahuja Apr 08, 2023
Titled ‘Making Sense’, Ai Weiwei’s multimodal exhibition assembles and subverts the ordinary, viewing it through the lenses of design, architecture, and making.
Beli House in Kalmthout is a mirror-clad disappearing act
Mar 25, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 25, 2023
Antwerp-based Studio Okami creates a modern home wrapped in reflective aluminium, glass, and concrete.
K64 Keflavík Airport Area Masterplan set to transform the Suðurnes Peninsula in Iceland
Mar 16, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 16, 2023
The airport design project focuses on Iceland’s progressive goals, establishing a relationship between economics, employment opportunities, and sustainable development.
Danshuis by MAD Architects: A multi-use studio fostering dance culture
Mar 14, 2023by STIRworld Mar 14, 2023
The ambitious project in Rotterdam involves the adaptive reuse of the Provimi warehouse into Danshuis or dancing house, celebrating the beauty of movement and performing arts.
Julie Mehretu bestowed with the Rees Visionary Award by Amref Health Africa
Mar 13, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 13, 2023
The fifth edition of the ArtBall event awarded Julie Mehretu with the Rees Visionary Award, celebrating her art practice that is rooted in interconnections that define the global world.
Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas: Land, Law, Labour
Mar 11, 2023by Aastha D. Mar 11, 2023
Organised by Buell Center at Columbia GSAPP, the conversation highlighted new approaches to the history of the intertwining of law, visual culture, and land.
Daniel Mullen’s paintings evoke an abstract spatial environment for contemplation
Mar 04, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 04, 2023
The Glasgow-born, Rotterdam-based painter plays with colours, light and darkness to let his paintings speak to the sense perception of the built environment.
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