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In the face of climate change, Kettle’s Yard delivers a peaceful warning
Apr 07, 2025by Rhea Mathur Apr 07, 2025
In an interview with STIR, curator Dr Amy Tobin discusses the exhibition Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival.
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The human, the synthetic, the in-between: projects fuelled by digital fabrication
Dec 25, 2024by Anushka Sharma Dec 25, 2024
STIRred 2024: STIR enlists intriguing projects that stem from a symbiosis between advancing digital fabrication and the spheres of architecture and design.
'Home Truth' is a bold critique of Australian housing and call for sustainable design
Dec 14, 2024by 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.
'The Cabanon' in Rotterdam claims to be "the biggest smallest apartment in the world"
Nov 06, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 06, 2024
Designed by Rotterdam-based architects Beatriz Ramo and Bernd Upmeyer based on their ergonomics, the apartment is centred around the couples' desire for a spa area.
IAAC crafts a lightweight building prototype with its 3D-Printed Earth Forest Campus
Aug 05, 2024by STIRworld Aug 05, 2024
Marking a blueprint in sustainable earth affordable housing, the 100 sqm 3D-printed building prototype is situated in the Natural Park of Collserola in Barcelona.
James Casebere explores exaggeration to create visceral architectural images
Aug 03, 2024by Zohra Khan Aug 03, 2024
Yasmeen Lari’s Chulha cookstove to BV Doshi’s affordable housing in India, the American artist unveiled a range of stimulating architectural imagery for his recent show in New York.
Is Freedom Plaza bringing real change to New York’s housing landscape?
Apr 03, 2024by Aarthi Mohan Apr 03, 2024
STIR delves into the ambitious agenda of the Freedom Plaza, crafted by BIG architects, which seeks to reshape affordable housing in the heart of New York City.
2024 Pritzker Laureate Riken Yamamoto treads social thresholds in his architecture
Mar 05, 2024by STIRworld Mar 05, 2024
Creating thoughtful spaces for communities across the globe, the Japanese architect and social advocate is the honourable winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year.
An exhibition at MMCA, Sri Lanka explores modernist architect Minette de Silva's legacy
Feb 13, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 13, 2024
88 Acres: The Watapuluwa Housing Scheme by Minette de Silva is a rigorous study of a housing development designed by de Silva and its impact on Sri Lankan architecture.
A Threshold’s facade design offers a unique solution to a comfortable, green urban life
Feb 03, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 03, 2024
Terra Comb, a service apartment in the heart of Bengaluru, is designed with a terracotta facade system that creates a micro environment while cooling the building’s interiors.
Books on architecture and design coordinating discourse and knowledge
Dec 12, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 12, 2023
STIRred 2023: From heartfelt autobiographies to activist readings, STIR recounts books published on global design and architecture that enabled creative learning and propagation.
A House for Artists, a house for hope
Dec 08, 2023by Anmol Ahuja Dec 08, 2023
STIR engages in a pensive conversation with APPARATA on the history, ethos, and state of British housing, pivoted around their model of sociable creative living in A House for Artists.
Roca London Gallery’s 'Small Spaces in the City' foresees the future of compact living
Sep 21, 2023by Zohra Khan Sep 21, 2023
Curator Clare Farrow takes STIR through the genesis of the showcase, the changing vision of a home, and the transformative pleasure of working with less space.
'Not for Sale!' at the Venice Biennale puts a spotlight on housing injustice in Canada
Aug 18, 2023by Zohra Khan Aug 18, 2023
The Canada Pavilion conceived by the Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) highlights the ongoing housing crisis in Canada and its capitalist and colonialist roots.
AHI European Award 2023 honours inclusive and sustainable interventions
Jun 14, 2023by Akash Singh Jun 14, 2023
With David Chipperfield Architects winning the built heritage category, the award recognises excellence in European architectural and heritage intervention.
Fish Island Village in London: permeability and placemaking through housing
May 27, 2023by Anmol Ahuja May 27, 2023
STIR tours the recently completed Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins and The Trampery campus in Hackney Wick, discovering its industrial history and present day urban aspirations.
Tina Pang on transmedia narratives in 'Hong Kong: Here and Beyond' at M+
Mar 31, 2023by Jerry Elengical Mar 31, 2023
Speaking to STIR, the Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ delves into how the museum’s inaugural exhibition chronicles the city’s development across visual and spatial mediums.
The "essentialist perfection" of Miesian collective housing with Fernando Casqueiro
Mar 27, 2023by Jerry Elengical Mar 27, 2023
STIR interviews the author of Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection about Mies' pioneering exploits in urban housing, for the late architect’s 137th birth anniversary.
El Borinquen Residence is a varicoloured artistic ode to modernist social housing
Feb 28, 2023by Jerry Elengical Feb 28, 2023
The social housing project by Alexander Gorlin Architects in New York has a varicoloured façade with a rhythmic grid to elevate Latino communities and disadvantaged residents.
Cities: Affordable Housing Public Debates 2022 by the Norman Foster Foundation
Nov 18, 2022by Jerry Elengical Nov 18, 2022
Uniting minds such as Alejandro Aravena, Tatiana Bilbao, and Peter van Assche, the event probed into how cities of the future can tackle rampant urbanisation and housing demand.
Adam Snow Frampton and Karolina Czeczek work best with constraints
Oct 29, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Oct 29, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews the founders of Only If, about their new home, Narrow House – more than a building, less than a manifesto, and an extension of urban policies.
2022 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist offers new visions for a low carbon future
Jul 23, 2022by STIRworld Jul 23, 2022
Contesting for the honour of becoming UK’s best new building, the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist presents ‘outstanding and welcoming architecture that lifts the spirit of all who engage with it’.
Can architecture education train young minds to help vulnerable communities?
Jun 16, 2022by Bhawna Jaimini Jun 16, 2022
Architecture education needs to expand beyond the issues of design and aesthetics by enabling students to question and confront the issues of access.
Co-location: a new building type—a housing block on top of a library
May 09, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky May 09, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky visits two recent hybrid buildings in Chicago - the Independence Library and Apartments complex and the Northtown Library and Apartments.
The Railway Farm in Paris explores agro-urbanism within a social welfare fabric
Mar 25, 2022by Jincy Iype Mar 25, 2022
With The Railway Farm, Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste merge agriculture with affordable housing and create jobs for the vulnerable sections of the Parisian district.
Michael Sorkin's last project is an affordable housing for African American community
Mar 24, 2022by Zohra Khan Mar 24, 2022
'House as Garden' by the late architect is his vision to provide a "beautiful life" to the African American community of Chicago's West Woodlawn.
85 Social Housing Units develop as connected timber blocks around a courtyard
Mar 12, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Mar 12, 2022
A finalist for the EU Mies Award 2022, the massive residential wooden structure by Peris + Toral Arquitectes takes shape in Barcelona, proposing new paradigms in social housing.
ICON and Lake|Flato Architects unveil 3D printed 'House Zero' in Austin, Texas
Mar 11, 2022by Jerry Elengical Mar 11, 2022
Featuring curving, furrowed concrete walls 3D printed using ICON’s 'Vulcan' construction system, the revolutionary home will be open for tours from March 13-14 during SXSW 2022.
Toronto's Quayside waterfront to be transformed with mass timber housing
Mar 03, 2022by STIRworld Mar 03, 2022
Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen, Alison Brooks Architects, and SLA will lead development for Toronto's waterfront, with 800+ affordable housing units and green public spaces.
95 Peckham Road by Peter Barber Architects is a ziggurat-like stack of homes
Oct 23, 2021by Anmol Ahuja Oct 23, 2021
Recipient of the RIBA London Award 2021, 95 Peckham Road in London is a sprawling mansion block that seeks to reinterpret the tenement style of housing.
Architecture students at Rural Studio build their first open-ended kit house
Aug 20, 2021by Steven Sculco Aug 20, 2021
Steven Sculco writes about Rural Studio’s kit house prototype, speaks with director Andrew Freear and the student design-build team, and interviews the client.
Delving into Lehrer Architects’ colourful urban intervention in Los Angeles
May 22, 2021by Devanshi Shah May 22, 2021
Located in the midst of a park, the project addresses the city's homelessness crisis and adheres to the studio’s long-standing philosophy of ‘no throwaway spaces’.
ZAV Architects designs a community cluster of crayon-like homes in Hormuz, Iran
Dec 15, 2020by Anmol Ahuja Dec 15, 2020
Officially named ‘Presence in Hormuz 02’, the project is a truly democratic community intervention in troubled lands, with bulbous and round domes popping in primary colours.
Studio Nine Architects design modular pod prototype to combat homelessness
Nov 26, 2020by Anmol Ahuja Nov 26, 2020
The Calyx Project is a prototype for a compact house as well as a community that looks at an innovative, sustainable and integrated housing solution for the homeless.
Hatch Colasuonno and Relativity Architects unveil affordable housing in Lancaster
Nov 18, 2020by Zohra Khan Nov 18, 2020
The Los Angeles-based firms have designed a cohesive living environment with Imagine Village – a housing for homeless veterans and underprivileged families in California.
Kanye West builds Yeezy Home, igloo-like structures for affordable housing in the US
Jul 09, 2020by STIRworld Jul 09, 2020
Exploring his long-drawn passion for architecture through Yeezy Home, American rapper Kanye West is currently building dome-like structures inspired by Star Wars, in California, US.
The steady breakdown of professional credibility and need for critical reforms
Jun 27, 2020by Ranjit Sabikhi Jun 27, 2020
Despite 1,19,000 qualified architects in India, why does the government entrust the design of our new cities to foreign consultants? Change must come about, writes Ranjit Sabikhi.
Mumbai's atArchitecture wins Affordable Housing Challenge in Cambodia
Jul 31, 2019by Meghna Mehta Jul 31, 2019
atArchitecture’s design won Building Trust International’s Affordable Housing Challenge in Phnom Penh, for its clever use of space, ventilation strategies, and sensitive approach.
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