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Cigno Hotel Boutique in Merida elucidates the city's Mayan past
Mar 25, 2023by Almas Sadique Mar 25, 2023
The boutique hotel in Merida, Mexico, renovated by Roger González, connects the city’s past and present.
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Zozaya Arquitectos' Casa Mateo is a tropical minimalist haven on the coast of Mexico
Mar 18, 2023by Pallavi Mehra Mar 18, 2023
At Casa Mateo, sprawling social areas open into the natural landscape, blurring the boundaries between the indoors and outdoors, with panoramic vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
Spiralling ecological statements in stone: Centro de Cultura Ambiental Chapultepec
Mar 08, 2023by Jerry Elengical Mar 08, 2023
ERRE Q ERRE arquitectura y urbanismo has completed a black stone clad pavilion and amphitheatre as part of a sprawling landscape project in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec park.
'In Praise of Caves' at Noguchi Museum probes discussions on organic architecture
Feb 25, 2023by Almas Sadique Feb 25, 2023
Art and architecture projects by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O'Gorman, and Javier Senosiain examine cave habitats at the Noguchi Museum with the show In Praise of Caves.
818 Tequila's new bottle by Valerio Sommella shapes from the ceramic crafts of Mexico
Feb 21, 2023by Sunena V Maju Feb 21, 2023
The handmade ceramic decanter for Eight Reserve by 818 Tequila, produced by local artisans in Pachuca, Mexico, aims to symbolise Kendall Jenner's brand’s identity through bottle design.
Tuning into Aslı Çavuşoğlu's solo exhibition 'TunState' at Barriera
Feb 21, 2023by Rosalyn D`Mello Feb 21, 2023
Titled Tunstate, the Istanbul-based artist’s new body of work extends her enquiry into naturally occurring states of being, dwelling on the politics of borders, migratory movements, and doomsday capitalism.
RootStudio renews Casa Mulata as a modern unit in Mexico's culture-rich fabric
Feb 17, 2023by STIRworld Feb 17, 2023
Led by architect João Boto Cæiro, RootStudio revives Casa Mulata in Oaxaca, which coalesces its traditional Mexican roots with contemporary design leads.
LC Arquitectura alters a ruin overtaken by nature into an industrial modern office
Jan 31, 2023by Jerry Elengical Jan 31, 2023
Near Córdoba, Mexico, CR Offices has given new meaning to the former shell of a private residence featuring overgrown courtyards coupled with a refined industrial-style interior.
When architecture falls in love with nature: the Valle San Nicolás - Clubhouse in Mexico
Jan 23, 2023by Jincy Iype Jan 23, 2023
The Valle San Nicolás - Clubhouse designed by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos is articulated as a low circular volume made of sustainably sourced wood, ‘like a boat anchored in the water.’
Casa Lorena is a pastel-toned urban haven filled with nature and light in Mexico
Jan 17, 2023by Jerry Elengical Jan 17, 2023
Workshop, Diseño y Construcción has renovated an early 20th-century home on a narrow plot in Mérida, Yucatán, blending modern sensibilities with traditional flourishes.
The understated and modern Casa El Pinar in Mexico revels in material authenticity
Jan 04, 2023by STIRworld Jan 04, 2023
In Mexico’s Valle de Bravo, Casa El Pinar by CF Taller de Arquitectura and Merodio Arquitectos strikes contemporaneity with pine wood, concrete, steel, glass, and local stone.
Discussion, discourse, and creative insight through STIRring conversations in 2022
Dec 27, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 27, 2022
Best of 2022: From Oscar-nominated production designers to trend forecasters, STIR recalls compelling conversations centred on the disciplines of architecture and design.
Taking an action: reinventing the role of renewable energy in architecture
Dec 22, 2022by Sunena V Maju Dec 22, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR probes into five architectural projects that manoeuvred the potential of renewable energy in design.
In a series of barrel vaults, 'Centro de Salud N1' adds to the future of Escárcega
Dec 21, 2022by Sunena V Maju Dec 21, 2022
Designed by Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura and JC Arquitectura, Centro de Salud N1 takes shape in a concrete structure, acting as a basic treatment clinic in Escárcega, Mexico.
The House in Singuilucan is an expression in horizontality and linearity
Dec 19, 2022by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 19, 2022
The concept of Mexico's Velascan landscape is developed primarily through the façade in a ranch house by Operadora, located in Singuilucan, Hidalgo in Mexico.
The art of casting sculptural architecture from liquid stone: concrete
Dec 17, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 17, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR's selection of sculptural concrete architecture built this year, that created contemporary forms of fancy, at once poetic, fluid, theatrical, and powerful.
ELEMENTAL designs a refined concrete stronghold with Elemental House in Mexico
Dec 17, 2022by Jerry Elengical Dec 17, 2022
Commissioned as the first prize for the 75th Sorteos Tec raffle organised by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, the project addresses an irregular site through contradiction.
The recovery, restoration and revival of Gabriel López Chiñas Library by RootStudio
Dec 10, 2022by Sunena V Maju Dec 10, 2022
Harmonising the original structure with elements of contemporary sustainable architecture, RootStudio unveils the restored Gabriel López Chiñas Library in Oaxaca.
Tatiana Bilbao on creating architecture that enhances the human experience
Dec 09, 2022by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 09, 2022
In conversation with STIR, the Mexican architect discusses her ideas for a future city, creating social justice and stronger communities through design, and questioning existing social and spatial hierarchies.
Continuing the legacy: In conversation with the second generation of three architects
Dec 07, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Dec 07, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky recalls interviewing Japanese architect Paul Tange, Danish architect Kim Utzon, and Mexican architect Victor Legorreta, the sons of three great architects.
A play of arches: Villa Petricor is a contemporary take on Mexican architecture
Nov 01, 2022by Sunena V Maju Nov 01, 2022
Designed by CO-LAB Design Office, Villa Petricor demystifies the coexistence of nature and contemporary structures in Mexican architecture.
Tatiana Bilbao’s installation at NGV Melbourne initiates a conversation on 'care'
Oct 15, 2022by 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.
Placing folklore in modernity, Naso fills the concrete shell of Lago|Algo in Mexico
Oct 06, 2022by Sunena V Maju Oct 06, 2022
Through the intervention by Naso, Lago|Algo adorns a new identity with a restaurant and public gallery space inside the concrete shell of the modernist icon at Chapultepec.
'Wo/manhouse' is a new avatar of Judy Chicago & Miriam Shapiro's seminal work
Oct 06, 2022by Shraddha Nair Oct 06, 2022
Executive Director of non-profit Through The Flower, Megan Malcom-Morgan speaks with STIR about the immersive, feminist art exhibition Wo/manhouse.
CIFO-Ars Electronica Awards 2022 aim to empower Latin American artists
Sep 22, 2022by Shraddha Nair Sep 22, 2022
Ars Electronica Festival 2022 presents CIFO's awardees at A Parallel (R)evolution - Digital Art in Latin America, which looks to empower Latin American artists in new media.
Casa Pasiddhi by Rojkind Arquitectos is discovered as “an introverted stone vestige”
Sep 20, 2022by Jincy Iype Sep 20, 2022
With fluted black concrete exteriors, Rojkind Arquitectos arranges Pasiddhi House in Mexico as an elevated, “snake-shaped” series of bridges and volumes above a living, central garden.
RootStudio marries the forms and flora of Mexican brutalism in Hotel Flavia
Sep 19, 2022by Sunena V Maju Sep 19, 2022
The Hotel Flavia in Oaxaca connects the contrasting dualities of built and unbuilt, tangible and intangible, architecture and landscape, and vernacularism and modernism.
The 59th Venice Art Biennale milks more than just dreams
Sep 16, 2022by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 16, 2022
Cecilia Alemani’s main exhibition gathers together lost, stolen, forgotten, marginalised, maternal, non-canonised female, queer, non-binary, and indigenous artistic subjectivities.
Ludwig Godefroy's Hotel Casa TO is a concrete oasis enclosed by sky
Sep 15, 2022by Sunena V Maju Sep 15, 2022
Hotel Casa TO in Mexico by Ludwig Godefroy adapts the sculptural expression of modern architecture into the contextual influence of the serene surroundings.
‘Mexx’ by Azuma Makoto lives and breathes as a botanical sculpture at SFER IK
Sep 07, 2022by Sunena V Maju Sep 07, 2022
Japanese botanical sculptor Azuma Makoto warps the architecture of the SFER IK Museion at Uh May, Mexico in the immersive, site-specific installation Mexx.
Rojkind Arquitectos makes its Metaverse debut with the José Cuervo Metadistillery
Sep 05, 2022by Jincy Iype Sep 05, 2022
STIR interviews Michel Rojkind, founder of Rojkind Arquitectos, on exploring the blooming realm of Metaverse architecture with the Metadistillery, modelled on the roots of an agave plant.
A circle, a sundial, an infinity: Wóolis residence by Arkham Projects
Sep 01, 2022by Jincy Iype Sep 01, 2022
Wóolis, an austere Mexican residence by Arkham Projects is conceived as a circular observatory, its geometric, subtle being drawing from Mayan architecture and heritage.
Jose Dávila’s ensemble of works speaks to the architectural marvel of its venue
Aug 17, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Aug 17, 2022
Memory of a Telluric Movement by Jose Dávila at Museum Haus Konstruktiv is a poetic juxtaposition of natural & industrial materials to visually represent an intertwined world.
Casa Martha in Mexico unifies temporal and contextual allusions in rammed earth
Aug 11, 2022by Jerry Elengical Aug 11, 2022
Alfredo Navarro Tiznado of Arquitetura Nativa has completed a home for a retired archaeologist in Baja California, employing local artisanal techniques to honour the site’s heritage.
Associates Architecture revisits Mexican architecture with Sin Nombre Casa y Galeria
Aug 09, 2022by Nadezna Siganporia Aug 09, 2022
Embracing introspection, Sin Nombre Casa y Galeria is an exercise in architectural synthesis that reveals a conscious, pragmatic approach to exploring vernacular traditions.
Dramatic concrete folds construe Casa Acantilado along a Pacific cliffside
Aug 05, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Aug 05, 2022
Designed as a series of protruding masses from a cliffside in the resort city of Zihuatanejo, the villa by Zozaya Arquitectos is formed along the lines of a lighthouse for the marooned.
From facia to form, Pensamientos Residencial uses voids to enliven housing
Jul 27, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jul 27, 2022
Designed by Espacio 18 Arquitectura, the structure in Oaxaca, Mexico, adapts principles of Mexican architecture to linear volumes, proposing fresh paradigms in social row housing.
Mar Tirreno 86 reinterprets Mexico’s 20th century housing typology
Jul 23, 2022by Sohil Soni Jul 23, 2022
By folding surfaces at multiple scales, Frida Escobedo Studio creates a series of domestic enclosures with varying degrees of privacy and light.
Zoncuantla Apartments by Rafael Pardo tower tetris-like above panoramic contours
Jul 21, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jul 21, 2022
Baring its pigmented concrete composition, the set of vertically stacked apartments in Coatepec, Mexico, boasts a shrunk-down footprint and stunning views for each unit.
Matt King, co-founder of immersive art collective Meow Wolf, passes away
Jul 21, 2022by STIRworld Jul 21, 2022
Matt King as the creative director of Santa Fe-based Meow Wolf, through his immersive installations, created experiences that altered the way we perceive the world.
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