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by Aarthi Mohan Nov 11, 2025
From material intelligence to urban inclusion, the fair’s talks programme will reflect on how architecture and design engage with social, cultural and ecological contexts of our time.
by Jincy Iype Oct 30, 2025
Doshi's MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission turns design into devotion—a shrine to the women who shaped her and a manifesto on why women create rooms of their own.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 07, 2025
At Melbourne’s Incinerator Gallery, a travelling exhibition presents a series of immersive installations that reframe playgrounds as cultural spaces that belong to everyone.
by Aarthi Mohan Sep 29, 2025
From experimental lighting and material innovations to global conferences and talks, the fair is set to mirror Mumbai’s ever-evolving landscape where tradition meeting modernity.
by Bansari Paghdar Jul 16, 2025
In Venice, the newly opened San Marco Art Centre's inaugural exhibition posits a retrospective look at the socio-political impacts of Seidler's polarising works in Australia.
by Bansari Paghdar Jul 01, 2025
The Newburgh Light House in Melbourne’s Auburn village embodies a clean expression of modularity to compose an alternative to the area’s existing housing stock.
by Lee Daehyung Apr 21, 2025
For his first solo exhibition in Korea, Mueck presents sculptures conceived across three decades which draw us inward, beckoning reflection on the nature of existence.
by Aarthi Mohan Dec 14, 2024
Melbourne-based practice Breathe's installation at the NGV Architecture Commission challenges the size, sustainability and values of modern housing in the continent nation.
by Bansari Paghdar Nov 19, 2024
The sustainable compact residence in Australia takes inspiration from neighbouring factory lofts and church halls, featuring tactile surface treatments and three staircases.
by STIRworld Sep 14, 2024
As we near the end of 2024, STIR presents its list of 10 exhibitions to look forward to, offering ruminations on horror and technology to contemporary looks at history and heritage.
by STIRworld Jul 24, 2024
The annual award announces 33 awardees across 11 categories addressing various pertinent global issues such as climate change, refugee crisis and more.
by Manu Sharma Jun 17, 2024
Co-curator Annika Kristensen explores Prouvost’s presentation of intergenerational matriarchy across cultures.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 27, 2023
Mary Street House enables a syncretic yet fleeting engagement of the old and new, coalescing a dialogue between colonial history and the heritage redevelopment project.
by Zohra Khan Dec 15, 2023
Starfish, crabs, sea squirts, and spotted eels create immersive chaos at the NGV Melbourne as the first Australian presentation of celebrated illustrator Jean Jullien.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Nov 17, 2023
Relying on universally available materials, Tadao Ando-designed MPavilion 10 presents a unique response to its place inside Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.
by Keziah Vikranth Sep 15, 2023
In a conversation with STIR, the Australian architect discusses the use of world-building techniques to bring about awareness of climate change—‘the greatest crisis of our generation.’
by STIRworld Jul 31, 2023
When installed at the NGV Garden in December this year, the installation (This is) Air by Australian architect Nic Brundson will undergo constant morphing throughout the day.
by Manu Sharma Jun 13, 2023
Australian artist Will Huxley speaks with STIR on behalf of the queer dynamic duo, shedding light on their flamboyant performance practice.
by Urvi Kothari May 16, 2023
The contemporary artist converted Sullivan+Strumpf into a mythical playground by curating a series of inclusive, secular, electrifying and bold Undergod warrior sculptures.
by Sunena V Maju Apr 04, 2023
The Melbourne-based artist unveils Time, a transportive immersive installation comprising 11 transformed rooms across the hidden upper level and ballroom of Flinders Street station.
by Jincy Iype Mar 17, 2023
Aiming 'to find a scene of eternity,' legendary self-taught architect Tadao Ando will design the Naomi Milgrom Foundation’s MPavilion 10 this year, marking his first project in Australia.
by STIRworld Feb 09, 2023
Splinter Society incorporates Italian craftsmanship in the interior of Villa Italia in Melbourne, while maintaining the traditional Australian facade design of the second-generation family home.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 19, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR rounds up five architectural projects that displayed commitment towards community upliftment and helped reinvent a social identity.
by STIRworld Dec 05, 2022
The 15th edition of the World Architecture Festival celebrates architectural responses to collective life renewal post pandemic and commitments to combating climate change.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Nov 21, 2022
The Mpavilion aims to emphasise an ancient sovereignty, through a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
by Nadezna Siganporia Oct 29, 2022
Melbourne-based architect Lisa Breeze creates an architectural narrative connecting a shambolic period cottage to contemporary design.
by Zohra Khan Oct 28, 2022
Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria, the triennial prize awarded to Leo Burnett Australia celebrates how creativity can shape who we are and the world we live in.
by Zohra Khan Oct 15, 2022
The Mexican architect invites collective reflection on the act of who cares for our garments and washes them, and how this labour has remained ignored in the history of domesticity.
by Nadezna Siganporia Oct 06, 2022
Splinter Society combined contemporary extensions and dark elements with the heritage features of a worker’s cottage in Melbourne, Australia.
by Zohra Khan Aug 29, 2022
The ephemeral winning installation for Melbourne’s Grollo Equiset Garden by Australian practice NWMN will imbue The Parthenon with layers of new meanings and reflections.
by Jincy Iype Aug 13, 2022
The Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne by Brearley Architects + Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects reveals an atypical form of interconnected tubes wrapped in a concrete skin.
by Jincy Iype May 02, 2022
Grimshaw's Monash Woodside Building for Technology and Design is certified as Passivhaus and Australia’s most ultra-low energy educational building with all-electric services.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 21, 2022
Designed by Splinter Society as a modernist extension to an existing Federation-style home, the Colonnade House explores new avenues in open living and rebuilding heritage.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 16, 2022
As an extension to the existing mausoleum at Keilor Cemetery near Melbourne, the complex pays heed to its context with local materials and a vibrant landscape design.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 29, 2022
Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors and property developer Beulah drew from the organic design vocabulary of Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in this residential project.
by STIRworld Jan 27, 2022
Australian sporting icons team up for a tennis match on a sustainable floating tennis court on the Great Barrier Reef, to raise awareness of the effects of single-use plastic.
by Devanshi Shah Jan 17, 2022
Two years in the making, The Light Catcher in Melbourne, Australia, is envisioned to be an urban lighthouse and is a geometric abstraction of a lantern.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 11, 2021
Featuring skewed, triangular forms inspired by the geometry of its site, this residence in Hawthorn, Victoria, forges a dialogue between the residents and the surrounding neighbourhood.
by Zohra Khan Dec 08, 2021
In Melbourne, a pink pond and an immersive garden constitute the architecture commission Pond[er] that draws people to reflect on their relationship with the environment.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 14, 2021
As the latest landmark at Deakin University’s Burwood Campus in Melbourne, Australia, the new building rethinks traditional learning spaces within a stylised, sculptural form.
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