•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Pallavi Mehra Aug 07, 2023
Nestled on a narrow plot, Casa Ederlezi is an inward looking home animated by interconnected gardens and crisscrossing steps that make the most of the available space.
by STIRworld Jul 31, 2023
Villa Cava is a holiday home that embodies the natural beauty and spatial quality of Cenote Suytun in Yucatan, Mexico.
by STIRworld Jul 05, 2023
Dublin-based architect Shane de Blacam is recognised for his dedication to creating community-centric spaces, and the pleasure he takes in joinery and detail.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jul 03, 2023
Mexico-based architects Andrés & José use colours and materials masterfully to restore a historic home, blending the old and the new to create a harmonious retreat.
by Amarjeet Singh Tomar Jun 27, 2023
Mexico-based Gonzalez Muchow Arquitectura crafts a simple intervention with serene volumes for a single-family in a semi-urban context from Querétaro.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jun 22, 2023
Estudio Atemporal's design seamlessly blends the rustic charm with modern comforts, offering a tranquil retreat in Mexico's Valle de Bravo countryside.
by Almas Sadique Jun 20, 2023
The mezcalería in Mexico, a surprising addition to Morelia’s commercial plaza, serves as an ode to the enduring practice of distilling mezcal.
by Jincy Iype May 22, 2023
Based on the concept of a ‘house as a vault,’ the Alférez house contrasts its brutalist, cubic volume with surprisingly lofty, cathedral-like interiors, that ‘grow’ to meet a canopy of pine trees.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar May 16, 2023
Designed by Espacio 18 Arquitectura, the residence is infused with light-bathed minimalism, journeying through concrete volumes, striking a balance between public and private spaces.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar May 09, 2023
In association with IKEA Foundation and Impact Hub Amsterdam, What Design Can Do selects 13 examples of innovative excellence in sustainable design, promoting a circular economy.
by Almas Sadique Mar 25, 2023
The boutique hotel in Merida, Mexico, renovated by Roger González, connects the city’s past and present.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.’
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
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 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
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 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
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