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by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 22, 2025
STIR interviews the principal of People’s Architecture Office, a Chinese architecture studio, about their conception of a system for revitalisation through prefabrication.
by Aarthi Mohan Mar 24, 2025
Portuguese studio OODA Architecture's cylindrical design merges flexibility, efficiency and community in Porto’s student housing landscape.
by Anushka Sharma Mar 18, 2025
The renowned practice unveils a landmark development plan for Manchester United’s century-old home, transforming it into a global hub for football and contemporary urban life.
by Aarthi Mohan Mar 14, 2025
Crafted with cross-laminated timber and geothermal systems, this lakeside retreat in Duchess County offers a vision of net-positive, low-impact living.
by Simran Gandhi Feb 04, 2025
The Mayoral New Warehouse Logistics Centre features a layered bioclimatic skin in translucent polycarbonate panels and micro-perforated zinc sheets.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jan 09, 2025
JSa and MTA+V transform urban living in Mexico City with organic architecture, community focus and sustainable design.
by Simran Gandhi Jan 04, 2025
The Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Centre in China integrates ecological design with fluid spaces, a spiralling tower and a hydrophilic deck.
by Akash Singh Dec 21, 2024
The low-impact Sinfonia Verde is an off-grid home that prioritises permeability to allow a harmonious co-existence with the surrounding jungle ecology.
by Alisha Lad Dec 13, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, the radical practice positions their work as facets of storytelling, material honesty and political activism emerging to shape tomorrow’s built environment.
by STIRworld Dec 10, 2024
Designed by the Madrid-based studio, the Bird and Mammal Shelter and Water Reservoir takes into consideration the needs of wildlife, aiming to restore nature’s balance.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Nov 04, 2024
The Mexico-based studio prioritises environmental respect and cultural heritage through sustainable design with this lakeside residence in Nayarit.
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 Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 11, 2024
The Martires housing complex in Portugal by the French artist-architect uses material contradictions to shape spaces that redefine the notion of privateness in residential design.
by Simran Gandhi Sep 10, 2024
Echoing Portland’s tree-lined streets and parks, ZGF Architects' renovation hopes to double the airport’s capacity to serve up to 35 million passengers by 2045.
by STIRworld Apr 08, 2024
This twirling apartment block of concrete and glass in Le Havre, France, pays homage to the local work of modernists Oscar Niemeyer and Auguste Perret.
by Almas Sadique Dec 03, 2023
The Paris-based architect and sculptor built Pavilion X, a demountable structure that exists at the intersection of sculpture and architecture, which is a structure sans function.
by Almas Sadique Nov 07, 2023
Piil, stationed within the Estonian forest, offers a clear view of the Jägala river and is one of four such treehouses to be built in the area.
by STIRworld Aug 21, 2023
Extending 295 metres across Jiangxi River, the steel bridge features a symmetrical pair of arches ascending from the opposite sides of the road deck.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 13, 2023
Overlooking a paddy field in Thiruvankulam, Kerala, the house has been assembled on a prefabricated steel skeleton, which employs the grid as an organisational foundation.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 12, 2023
An intimate sanctuary that posits a model for sustainable lifestyle, in tune with nature, the home features a terraced acrobatic structure that hovers over the landscape.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 08, 2022
As a fully demountable stadium built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the venue is composed of 974 shipping containers mounted on a steel frame, in a remarkable feat of modular design.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 17, 2022
Placed atop stilts on a site near Biscayne Bay along Florida’s coastline, the Stewart Avenue Residence is a flood-resistant abode realised in board-formed concrete.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 10, 2022
Completed by gmp Architekten in Games in Chengdu, China, the sports complex comprises three aluminium clad blocks separated by open spaces and playing fields, having been envisioned as a landmark in its urban context.
by Jincy Iype Aug 04, 2022
Four stacked concrete tunnels and a solitary fifth form the ultra-minimal Culvert Guesthouse by Japanese firm Nendo as an archive for its products, furniture and artwork.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 22, 2022
'Paradinha-11 Cabins in the Woods' explores the potential of the firm's prefabricated Gomos building system in a mixed-use housing and hospitality development on a sloping site.
by Jerry Elengical May 10, 2022
Featuring vertical gardens that evoke the spirit of the Amazon through biophilic design, this mixed-use complex presents a new naturalist manifesto in the city of lights.
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 Jincy Iype Apr 21, 2022
For 62M, Canadian practice 5468796 Architecture arranged pie-shaped suites in its radial form, raised on 11m high columns and crowned it with a “glass box jewel” penthouse.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 07, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Kharkiv-based architect Oleg Drozdov about a new architecture school he co-founded in 2017 and his vision for Ukraine after the war.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 21, 2022
In Kontiolahti, Finland, this cabin is a dark, mystical object nestled amid the trees of a rustic homestead that champions openness and sustainability as a relief from urban life.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 24, 2022
The new UAD Campus in ZITOWN consists of three interlocked cubes sheathed in modular systems of perforated aluminium and UHPC, to demonstrate the beauty of prefabricated design.
by Aditi Sharma Maheshwari Nov 22, 2021
SPASM Design Architects brings a new breed of vacation stays that are self-sustaining, prefab, made with recycled materials, and can be entirely assembled on site.
by STIRworld Sep 28, 2021
The proposed housing community located in the island of Sardinia is titled Mother Nature as it takes inspiration from nature, and artist Costantino Nivola’s sculpture, La Madre.
by STIRworld Jul 31, 2021
Based on reinventing prefabricated architecture, modular design and off-grid living, Jantzen’s M-House is a portable system where multiple iterations of a structure are possible.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 26, 2021
On Bequia, an island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the prefabricated house pays homage to local maritime traditions and employs sustainability as its core concept.
by Anmol Ahuja Jan 16, 2021
Designed and developed by a team of former Tesla, SpaceX and AirBnB employees, the high-end shelter units built for short-term stays will be shipped out this year.
by Jincy Iype Dec 23, 2020
Schols launches a versatile modular home, Cabin ANNA, that can be built in five days, with walls that glide over rails to create different spatial layouts for semi-outdoor living.
by Jincy Iype Jun 11, 2020
The customisable, portable 27 sqm Ojalá House by Italy’s IB Studio focuses on flexibility and sustainability, and includes a mechanical system to control its movable floors and walls.
by Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2020
The Beijing-based studio uses modular concrete and metal elements to achieve accelerated construction for Jinlong School in the Pingshan district of Shenzhen.
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