•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Bansari Paghdar May 19, 2026
Kyiv-based +kouple’s design for the aviation collective AEROTIM employs an industrial materiality and thoughtful lighting design attuned to the crew’s professional rituals.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2026
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Denise Scott Brown: City, Street, House, focuses exclusively on the American architect’s influential contributions to urban analysis.
by Srishti Ojha May 08, 2026
In this solo exhibition, niceaunties (a.k.a Wenhui Lim) uses AI to imagine a speculative future for aunties, pushing the artistic and social possibilities of AI art.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 17, 2026
An edited volume of essays, Women Writing Architecture 1700 – 1900: Expanding Histories, considers the role women played in shaping the built environment through their writing.
by Zohra Khan Apr 10, 2026
Bruce Peter's book—an in-depth, near visceral exploration of Scotland’s modernist architecture—poses questions without closing the door on what it critiques.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 03, 2026
A Brutalism-inspired community-built mod for the classic video game Quake (1996) draws observations on architecture’s fixation on ease, comfort and passive inhabitation.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 19, 2026
Designed by New Delhi-based Architects Collaborative, the Noida home is inspired by the traditional Rajasthani Kavad, featuring an array of three monolithic volumes.
by Srishti Ojha Mar 19, 2026
Tai Kwun Contemporary’s show, Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe, the second chaptazer of a survey series, takes a grassroots look at the impact of the globalised economy.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2026
A collection of over 180 photographs by the celebrated filmmaker at Onassis Stegi, staged as a ‘rare artistic event’, prompts an enquiry into film, space, framing and the maker’s eye.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 13, 2026
The Chilean architect founded his Santiago-based practice in 1995, consciously avoiding a signature architectural identity, adhering to first principles and site-specificity.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 11, 2026
Conceived by Pentaspace Design Studio, this cuboidal volume of exposed concrete and glass pegs movement as integral to the learning experience.
by Bansari Paghdar Feb 07, 2026
The inaugural Aranyani Pavilion in New Delhi, Sacred Nature, features a spiral walkthrough composed of a canopy of indigenous plant species in contrast with invasive lantana wood.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 28, 2026
The second chapter of the ~log(ue) programme, powered by JSW, expanded its scope to move beyond conversations to reconceive spatial hierarchies through porous exchanges.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 27, 2026
A linear mass with large overhanging slabs embedded in a quiet greenscape, this office space in Kerala offers a seamless shift between personal and professional realms.
by STIRworld Jan 23, 2026
Backed by 65 years of trust, PPS uses a ‘sketch to site’ approach to enable bold design executions with comprehensive support across the entire lifecycle of the project.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 20, 2026
Located in a mountainous landscape of Karjat, Maharashtra, the giant cocoon-like home features a 100-feet-long suspension bridge, covered in thatch and mud.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 09, 2026
Positioned as an architectural gimmick, the boutique resort in Pondicherry features experiential accommodations drawing from global cultures and design concepts.
by Jincy Iype Jan 06, 2026
Employing reclaimed wood, soundscapes and incense, the pavilion by NORTH’s Rahul Bhushan reframes Himalayan architecture as an event within the Jaquar Pavilion Park 2026.
by Jincy Iype Jan 02, 2026
Supported by BuildKraft India Systems LLP, the pavilion becomes a ‘vessel for stillness’ in the Jaquar Pavilion Park, staging pause and movement amid Mumbai’s bustling spirit.
by Jincy Iype Dec 24, 2025
Deriving from The Manhattan Transcripts by Bernard Tschumi, Aric Chen curates the Jaquar Pavilion Park, with ten practices reframing architecture as event, movement and narrative.
by Bansari Paghdar Dec 23, 2025
Spanning China, India, Singapore and Bangladesh, the winners of the inaugural regional outtake address urbanisation, sustainability and equity through contextual architecture.
by Bansari Paghdar Dec 20, 2025
A meditation on material honesty and memory, Of Trees and Gods and Mud draws reverence from the local spiritual landscape, shaped by kaavus (sacred groves) .
by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2025
From engaging films to cinematic pavilions and curated talks, STIR unveils what’s in store ahead of the second edition of the Architecture and Design Film Festival in Mumbai.
by Aarthi Mohan Dec 10, 2025
A burnt roof and a forgotten ceiling reveal unexpected generosity, as a blighted building in Compton, California, is transformed into a beacon of care for the local community.
by Bansari Paghdar Nov 25, 2025
Protecting the 11th-century Nordic ruins in Þjórsárdalur, The (Re)interpretation of Stöng presents an untreated larchwood structure that reconciles fragility and permanence.
by Sunena V Maju Nov 13, 2025
In conversation with STIR, José Esparza Chong Cuy, executive director and chief curator of Storefront, discusses his professional journey and what’s next for the organisation.
by Avani Tandon Vieira Nov 12, 2025
An exhibition at Piknik in Seoul considers the afterlife of iconic architecture.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 27, 2025
Featuring sinuous bamboo canopies and modular 3D-printed concrete structures, the pavilion functions as an outdoor cafeteria for the Ashoka University in Haryana, India.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 20, 2025
At the ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025, the two stalwarts reflected on what makes great architecture, following the screening of the film My Architect (2003).
by Manasvi Pote Oct 17, 2025
A probe into the state of public toilets in cities across India reveals how design exacerbates ingrained gender, class and caste hierarchies, despite their skewed notion as provisions.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 16, 2025
From sonic architecture to circular economies, this year’s edition of GDF traced how creative practice can bear a language of empathy in a rapidly changing world.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 16, 2025
For its sophomore year, the awards announced winners across 28 categories that forward a contextually and culturally diverse architectural ecosystem.
by Hili Perlson Sep 26, 2025
The exhibition at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus unpacks the politics of taste and social memory embedded in the architecture of the former East Germany.
by Bansari Paghdar Sep 25, 2025
Middle East Archive’s photobook Not Here Not There by Charbel AlKhoury features uncanny but surreal visuals of Lebanon amidst instability and political unrest between 2019 and 2021.
by Bansari Paghdar Sep 16, 2025
Amidst a lingering industrial past, this workspace — featuring pink lime plaster walls and playful gargoyles — is a living tribute to IKSOI's co-founder, late architect Dhawal Mistry.
by Anushka Sharma Sep 13, 2025
London is set to become a playground for design with special commissions, exhibitions and district-wide programming exploring the humane and empathetic in creative disciplines.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 12, 2025
For Intelligens, participations by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao explore how infrastructure and development prerogatives in Asian megacities are (re)produced for global perceptions.
by Bansari Paghdar Sep 11, 2025
With London at the heart of architectural enquiry again, the shortlist aims to tackle Britain's most pressing urban issues, but has a concerning geographic and functional concentration.
by Anushka Sharma Sep 10, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Esther Rejai and Hugo Topalov discuss the cooperative's annual festival, the value of reuse in construction and their low-tech approaches to architecture.
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