•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 14, 2023
The spatial organisation of the residence, on the outskirts of Maharashtra, typifies the Manduva Logili courtyard house—assembled around a central open space.
by Pallavi Mehra Feb 28, 2023
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s Ecology Green Farm in southwestern Nigeria, showcases vernacular architecture and is made using locally sourced materials.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Feb 27, 2023
The Ningwu Oatmeal Factory expresses a continuity in industrial aesthetic, along with humanisation—both in the design intent as well as its expression.
by Sunena V Maju Feb 02, 2023
In a span of four years, Anne Feenstra and his team have given a new life to the Jat havelis of Nalwa in Haryana, India, with the project, the BC Jindal Community Centre.
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 Zohra Khan Oct 26, 2022
Abandoned since 1970, the Argo Brewery in downtown Tehran gets a new identity as an arts incubator for the Iranian city, featuring age-old exposed brickwork and new floating roofs.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 22, 2022
KiKi ARCHi brings a contemporary outlook to traditional Chinese architecture in one of China’s most important Taoist temple complexes on Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang Province.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 18, 2022
The Carpenters Workshop Gallery marks its presence in Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition by Nacho Carbonell at a retrofitted warehouse in West Hollywood.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Oct 10, 2022
The Family House in Rašovka is the manifestation of a functionalist concept that is composed of an iron framework and free facades.
by Sunena V Maju Sep 30, 2022
Indian architecture firm Wallmakers, led by Vinu Daniel, received the Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022 for its creativity and willingness to take risks while creating sustainable buildings.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Sep 29, 2022
Kabelovna Studios, located in a suburb of Prague, is a cohesive amalgamation of a 20th century factory building and contemporary inserts, both celebrated individually.
by Sunena V Maju Sep 26, 2022
With the renovation of Brickyard Retreat in Beigou, llLab. adds to the architectural and cultural layers of the old tile factory with local materials and contemporary interventions.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Sep 13, 2022
The cumulative upgradation of Husuv Park in Čakovice, Prague, is a cohesive celebration of the context it sits in - natural, material, as well as religious.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Sep 10, 2022
The Women in Architecture exhibition at DAC, Copenhagen, fills the gaps in what could easily be considered the first draft of an architectural history.
by Jincy Iype Jan 10, 2022
Cheng Chung Design’s DongFengYun Hotel Mi'Le – Mgallery in China unfolds as a series of domes and unique brick architecture, in a slow dance of the vernacular and contemporary.
by Zohra Khan Dec 23, 2021
Presenting STIR's round up on brick architecture that elevated the mundane and dissolved boundaries between vernacular and contemporary.
by Jincy Iype Dec 03, 2021
Yíshè at Atrium House is a clubhouse in Hong Kong with layered spaces and pavilions dressed in Chinese blue brick, its spatial scheme inspired from Chinese heritage courtyard houses.
by Jincy Iype Sep 30, 2021
Angular brick walls crowned with reflective steel volumes shape the memorial by Daniel Libeskind, the first to memorialise the 1,02,000 names of the Dutch Holocaust victims.
by Jincy Iype Sep 25, 2021
An elevated timber bridge connects the scattered, double brick-clad vertical pods topped with skylights to form Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou, a hostel complex in China’s Hebei province.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 03, 2021
With a brick façade that flows and ebbs, The Red Oasis is a community centre designed by Pune-based PMA madhushala as a relief from monotonous housing patterns in the Indian city.
by Jincy Iype Feb 14, 2021
Designed by Cheng Chung Design, the restaurant sits within an unusual cluster of mounds made by artist Luo Xu in China, with its red brick skin echoing inside its arched interiors.
by Jincy Iype Nov 10, 2020
The elegant interiors of House of Madison, a multi-brand concept space designed by via. feature exposed brick walls, recurring wire mesh bronze arches and a sculptural stairway.
by Zohra Khan Oct 14, 2020
The Ernakulam-based studio sculpts free-flowing brick walls in this ‘inward-looking’ home whose design revives a construction technique that has faded in the sands of time.
by Zohra Khan Apr 30, 2020
A party wall and four concrete buttresses left off a razed site sought a new meaning as they become a unique public space in the project titled 'Can Sau. Emergency Scenery'.
by Ronitaa Italia Oct 14, 2019
A look at one of the only two Indian shortlisted projects at the Dezeen Awards 2019 - the office-cum-factory of Hanoi-based Star Engineers, designed by Pune-based Studio VDGA.
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