•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Pallavi Mehra Sep 12, 2023
Vanke Xi An Club is a hillside building in Yuxi, China that appears to be an extension of a lake and offers guests a unique indoor-outdoor experience.
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 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 STIRworld Mar 04, 2023
A mixed-use development combining offices, retail spaces, recreation, and elevated gardens, the project aims to become a new hub for creativity and innovation in Bangkok.
by STIRworld Mar 01, 2023
Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Madrid Design Festival, esteeming his contributions to architecture and urban planning.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 04, 2023
The firm’s own headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is an unassuming concrete structure that employs innumerable planter boxes on its façade to help improve air quality.
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 Jerry Elengical Jan 23, 2023
As the entrance to a resort on the island of Phú Quốc, the structure is an austere cuboidal brick volume, hosting a tiered courtyard draped with lush green curtains.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 06, 2022
Overlooking the harbour in Sydney, Australia, the new cultural campus is an extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring terraced forms topped by green spaces.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 14, 2022
Blanketing a part of the San Siro neighbourhood in lush greens, the proposed new ground for Italy’s two biggest football clubs brings the firm’s distinct style to stadium design.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 07, 2022
As the new headquarters for one of the country’s largest telecommunications providers, the structure, located in the city of Abidjan, blends green terraces and interactive zoning.
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.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 17, 2022
The Kaleidoscope Office and Residence, located on a remote factory site in Vietnam, features contrasting programs inside a dodecagonal structure with a perforated façade.
by STIRworld Aug 06, 2022
Spanning 75,000 sqm, the new headquarters in the city’s Xuhui District features a fragmented exterior concealing a courtyard layout that prioritises collaboration and wellness.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 25, 2022
Designed by Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates as a retirement home for a couple in Huế, Vietnam, this residence comprises transparent blocks placed within a forested landscape.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 12, 2022
In Singapore’s one-north district, this residential complex blends playful exposed concrete, vibrant murals, and greenery in two seven-storey wings linked by an inhabited bridge.
by Jincy Iype Jun 22, 2022
STIR reflects back on the idiosyncrasy of The Exchange, Kengo Kuma & Associates’ first completed project in Sydney, Australia, through the eyes of Yuki Ikeguchi, Partner, KKAA.
by Jerry Elengical Jun 17, 2022
Situated near the centre of Bruz, a town in northwestern France, this housing complex channels contrasts, with a greenhouse-like atrium and intersecting gangways above public gardens.
by Pallavi Mehra May 20, 2022
Casa Nomada Bali, designed by Erika Calle Crespo and Marco Haberberger, showcases Mediterranean interiors and features a biophilic design aesthetic.
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 Pallavi Mehra Feb 12, 2022
The Dutch studio has added six treehouses to Playa Viva resort, blurring the boundaries between indoors and outdoors and offering guests the opportunity to be one with nature.
by Zohra Khan Jan 24, 2022
In a busy neighbourhood of Ho Chi Minh City, the Anh Coffee Roastery clad homogenously in red terracotta bricks calls for a sensorial tour of a coffee plantation.
by Pallavi Mehra Dec 07, 2021
This real estate company office’s architecture draws inspiration from perforations in a tin roof and Shibori, the Japanese resist dyeing technique, which is characterised by circular forms.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 26, 2021
VERO Ecological Tiles Exhibition Hall & Headquarters in Foshan employs an immersive three-storey spatial narrative to illustrate the miraculous beauty of natural life processes.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 16, 2021
Characterised by strong visual and architectural contrast, this structure in Yinchuan city boasts an industrial aesthetic in its exterior, embracing biophilic principles in its interiors.
by Jincy Iype Oct 14, 2021
STIR speaks to Michiel Raaphorst, founding partner, V8 Architects and Marjan van Aubel who preach sustainability with their biophilic design for The Netherlands pavilion at Dubai Expo.
by Anmol Ahuja Aug 19, 2021
Defining its own context amid a busy market street in Ho Chi Minh City, Hoa’s House by H.2 is a green haven framed by concrete arches, packed within a latticed screen.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 09, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky met with Stefano Boeri to discuss his obsession with trees since being a kid and intentions behind his Bosco Verticale, the most talked about building in Milan.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 08, 2021
Emphasising nature’s tranquility and delicacy, Red5 Studio partners with Ben Decor on their second cafe design for ‘September’ - a Ho Chi Minh City-based brand of coffee shops.
by STIRworld Apr 28, 2021
Located in Maebashi, Japan, the transformation of the concrete structure that previously occupied a traditional Japanese inn is executed within the newly revitalised city core.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 06, 2021
Located amid the sprawling 40 acres land of Pune’s Symbiosis Institute, the Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre is a multi-speciality hospital by IMK Architects.
by STIRworld Nov 18, 2020
As the world navigates the pandemic stricken 9 to 5, Uncommon workspaces in London aim to tackle desk fatigue and bring vitality back to workplaces with their comprehensive design.
by STIRworld Oct 05, 2020
Motivated by the company’s ethics of egalitarian and progressive workspaces, Foster + Partners has designed the headquarters for Hankook in Pangyo, suited to their evolving needs.
by STIRworld Sep 04, 2020
The indoor playground encourages creative and collective play among children through a set of colorful, nature-inspired plywood structures in Brooklyn, New York.
by STIRworld Aug 17, 2020
The clinic and therapy centre designed by Runa Workshop provides a natural, sensory atmosphere for special children to wander and grow.
by Jincy Iype Aug 23, 2019
Designed by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton, the Cork House is an experimental, carbon neutral private house made almost entirely out of cork.
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