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by Anushka Sharma Jul 12, 2025
The California-based artist channels his knowledge of digital tools to emulate the fragility and precision of the Japanese craft in porcelain.
by Bansari Paghdar Jul 05, 2025
The dome house in the High Desert region of California brings forth a futuristic dreamscape set against the 1880s-themed town Pioneertown.
by Manu Sharma Mar 21, 2025
STIR speaks with Meyohas about her compelling conceptual art at Desert X 2025.
by Manu Sharma Jan 08, 2025
Curator Natasha Becker discusses the artist’s expression of queer pride through sculptures made from urban refuse.
by Leah Triplett Jan 01, 2025
The California-based artist discusses what inspires and informs her work on the heels of two major installations in New York.
by Manu Sharma Nov 13, 2024
The publication explores nearly two decades of installation art by the German artist, focusing on his approach to carefully balancing visibility and discretion.
by Aarthi Mohan Nov 01, 2024
The sustainable architecture of this retreat inspired by the nature and resilient history of the archaeological sites of Jordon fosters introspection amid the rugged Mojave terrain in California.
by Manu Sharma Aug 04, 2024
Italian photographers Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri discuss their beautiful and bleak climate-conscious project, in an interview with STIR.
by Kate Meadows Jul 27, 2024
El Museo del Barrio in New York stages a retrospective for a leading Chicana artist, centring memory as a strategy of cultural reclamation.
by STIRworld Jun 11, 2024
Yinka Ilori in collaboration with Momentum launches his first commercial textile and wallcovering collection in colourful geometric and floral patterns.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 23, 2024
The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich underscores how this idea of exchange influences urbanisation processes.
by Jincy Iype Mar 02, 2024
Dictated by its natural context, the Roca House by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados in Yosemite Lakes, California, comes together as a modest architectural gesture.
by Almas Sadique Feb 06, 2024
Peter Nasielski's experimental furniture collection explores the anticipated Symbiocene era fostering relationships between individuals and photosynthetic microalgae.
by Zohra Khan Jan 13, 2024
A heady gush of warmth, colours, and textures takes centre stage at the West Hollywood fashion retail destination designed by Kelly Wearstler.
by Anushka Sharma Jan 06, 2024
Realised by Industry of All Nations, the California-based vacation rental blends into the desert canvas, owing to an earthy material palette, low-profile volume and eco-sensitivity.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Nov 10, 2023
STIR columnist Vladimir Belogolovsky talked to Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig whose work is about the optimistic sense of the future; which he sees as the root of innovation.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 22, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky discusses the iconoclastic Frank Gehry’s house in Santa Monica, California, with architects and critics who were liberated by it.
by Zohra Khan Aug 31, 2023
The pro-bono project by NBBJ, the Nickerson Gardens Playground, is a playmaze for children and adults within the largest public housing located west of Mississippi.
by Urvi Kothari Aug 24, 2023
Suchitra Mattai's In the absence of power. In the presence of love celebrates women of colour and re-imagine histories with large-scale textile installations at Roberts Projects.
by Almas Sadique Aug 04, 2023
At the recently concluded UIA World Congress of Architects, STIR spoke with the architect to understand spatial issues that restrict a large populace from performing diurnal duties.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Michael Rotondi of RoTo Architects who believes that an identity crisis in the formative years of his generation made architects inventive.
by Keziah Vikranth Jul 18, 2023
Designed by Morphosis Architects, the new OCMA structure with swooping white tile façade engages the public with indoor-outdoor spaces and expansive modern galleries.
by STIRworld Jul 13, 2023
French artist Vincent Leroy installs kinetic sculpture in Joshua Tree National Park in California, inviting visitors to a meditative space curated by the interplay of light and movement.
by STIRworld Jun 06, 2023
Promising to seamlessly blend the real and the digital world, Apple unveiled its VR headset, Vision Pro, with an intuitive, three-dimensional interface, and other groundbreaking features.
by Akash Singh Apr 06, 2023
Schwartz and Architecture designs a studio extension for Neal Schwartz’s Sonoma home, inspired by architectural elements of dovecotes, featuring an angled facade.
by Devanshi Shah Jan 25, 2023
Fifty years in the making, American artist Michael Heizer’s land art sculpture City in the US state of Nevada is a rare diamond in the rough.
by STIRworld Jan 14, 2023
With STIR as a media partner, winners of the International Design Awards' 16th edition were announced in its architectural, interior, fashion, product, and graphic design categories.
by Jincy Iype Jan 13, 2023
With an exterior made of non-combustible materials, Faulkner Architects has created a protective, modern form to withstand Californian fires, as a 'base camp for adventure.'
by Jincy Iype Jan 05, 2023
FORMA envisions a new typology by clubbing leisure activities of a bathhouse with the utilitarian functions of a data centre, at the Pink Thermal Baths in a Californian desert.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 22, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR probes into five architectural projects that manoeuvred the potential of renewable energy in design.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 01, 2022
Inspired by the original landscape pattern of ‘Lotus Pond-Reed Sea,’ Baiyangdian Waterfront Park responds to the ecological issues and modern flooding affecting the shallow lake.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 18, 2022
The Carpenters Workshop Gallery marks its presence in Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition by Nacho Carbonell at a retrofitted warehouse in West Hollywood.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 17, 2022
For the design of Suspension House, Fougeron Architecture remodelled a house nestled between two hills into a suspended steel structure spanning the creek
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 15, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Boston architect Brian Healy about the need to study architectural precedents and building ideas on the shoulders of great masters.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 11, 2022
Sculptor Liz Larner with below above at Kunsthalle Zürich raises attention to the ecological imbalance while maintaining the idea of contradiction pertinent to her oeuvre.
by Manu Sharma Sep 10, 2022
American artist Anthony Samaniego speaks with STIR about his stunning photo manipulation art.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 16, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Carissa Potter Carlson reimagines the world as a loving place and inquires ideas of intimacy through her thoughtful art.
by Zohra Khan Aug 11, 2022
Vertical Panorama Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the microclimate of the famed Donum Estate in Northern California.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 02, 2022
STIR looks at the art and design of illustration as a discipline to narrate stories of the contemporary urban, created in digital and non-digital formats.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 28, 2022
Realised in association with HNTB, the new 3,500 ft structure has been dubbed the ‘Ribbon of Light,’ and replaces its iconic predecessor over the Los Angeles River.
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