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Uzbekistan: art, architecture, heritage and soft power
Nov 16, 2023by Daria Kravchuk Nov 16, 2023
The Central Asian country is working to enhance social cohesion and ensure its presence on the global art stage.
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REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Centre sits as a dynamic muted monolith in Manhattan
Nov 13, 2023by Zohra Khan Nov 13, 2023
New York-based REX studio have designed the final public element on the World Trade Center site.
Exploring Yantai’s future with Space Crystals and Sea Square by OPEN Architecture
Nov 11, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Nov 11, 2023
OPEN’s transformative architectural projects will offer an immersive experience that bridges history, culture and the cosmos in Yantai, China.
Towards making architecture a people’s movement: Revisiting Copenhagen's BLOX
Nov 10, 2023by Jincy Iype Nov 10, 2023
Kent Martinussen (CEO, Danish Architecture Center, and BLOXHUB management team member), recalls the democratic, inclusive values of the stacked BLOX building in Denmark.
TO Arquitectura’s vaulted music kiosk in Mexico offers equitable access to the guitar
Oct 30, 2023by Zohra Khan Oct 30, 2023
A small music school in the marginalised residential region of Yuguelito serves as a community refuge to learning guitar.
Malmö Stadsteater's refurbishment journey from hippodrome to theatre
Oct 01, 2023by Keziah Vikranth Oct 01, 2023
Haworth Tompkins in conjunction with White Arkitekter converted the former circus into a flexible auditorium that embraces its past architecture and present urban context.
OMA puts nature at the forefront with the expansion of Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Sep 04, 2023by Keziah Vikranth Sep 04, 2023
The Gundlach Building is an inspired modern addition to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, a transparent structure hosting art and people in a park setting in New York.
Wutopia Lab transcends time and tradition through 'The Eye of the Museum’
Aug 21, 2023by Deepti Dutt Aug 21, 2023
Elevating Changchun's urban landscape: Wutopia Lab's art museum melds tradition and modernity in a poetic dance of concrete and light.
The organic Oratory of St. Francis Xavier in Thailand raises its cross up to the skies
Aug 14, 2023by Jincy Iype Aug 14, 2023
Spanish architect Paco García Moro speaks to STIR about his Thai chapel clad in intricate wooden latticework, its form attesting to a miracle of St. Francis.
The L'Arche - Micheville Cultural Centre is a fusion of history and contemporary design
Jun 26, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jun 26, 2023
Paris-based K architectures designs a cultural centre that seamlessly blends historical references with modern aesthetics and cutting-edge technology.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's New Pina Bausch Zentrum envisions a 'machine for dance'
Jun 19, 2023by STIRworld Jun 19, 2023
An extension of the Schauspilhaus Wuppertal, Germany, DS+R’s winning design includes new performance and production spaces to add to the legacy of the famed German dancer.
Sky Mountain by Sou Fujimoto abides by the man-made and natural in a cohesive setting
Jun 05, 2023by STIRworld Jun 05, 2023
The Sky Mountain- Haikou Bay No.6 High Standard Seaside Station by Sou Fujimoto Architects in China connects the sea, sky, and landscape in its gently undulant, circular white form.
New Makers Bureau and Localworks build a 'hyper-local' community art centre
May 23, 2023by Zohra Khan May 23, 2023
The 32° East Arts Centre in Uganda features an ingenious layering of local materials and passive techniques and is the first purpose-built community arts space in the region.
The International Rugby Experience in Ireland honours Georgian architecture
May 13, 2023by Almas Sadique May 13, 2023
The cultural institution and visitor experience centre by Níall McLaughlin Architects serves as a tribute to rugby, as well as brings focus to its proximal Georgian streetscape.
Studio Gang conceives the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts as a blossoming stem
May 06, 2023by STIRworld May 06, 2023
Uniting eight different buildings under its pleated concrete roof, Jeanne Gang’s redesign of the AMFA transforms a ‘premier cultural institution into a signature civic asset.’
Mario Cucinella's Etruscan Galleries in Milan journeys through space and time
Apr 21, 2023by Jincy Iype Apr 21, 2023
The renovation of Fondazione Luigi Rovati and the addition of a subterranean art museum take visitors on a voyage into the Etruscan Era, the Age of Empire, and the present day.
Neri&Hu conceives the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension as a 'glowing lantern'
Mar 24, 2023by Jincy Iype Mar 24, 2023
An 'urban monument' with diamond-shaped, red travertine masonry defines the expanded cultural and retail programme of the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts Extension in China.
H+F Arquitetos insert an 'invisible' extension to the historic Museu do Ipiranga
Mar 20, 2023by Jerry Elengical Mar 20, 2023
In São Paulo, the famed museum's renovation has introduced a new concrete and steel core with an underground addition that redefines its relationship to the landscape surrounding it.
CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK) set to convert the Pearl factory into a contemporary art hub
Mar 13, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 13, 2023
The architects unveil their competition winning proposal that will transform an old textile factory into the Pearl Gallery—a contemporary art gallery.
change architects reference worms digging into earth for OCT Chaohu Cultural Centre
Mar 09, 2023by STIRworld Mar 09, 2023
Emerging out of a juncture of nature and city, the ultra-sinuous OCT Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre in China is informed by the idea and aesthetic of naturally occurring forms.
Spiralling ecological statements in stone: Centro de Cultura Ambiental Chapultepec
Mar 08, 2023by Jerry Elengical Mar 08, 2023
ERRE Q ERRE arquitectura y urbanismo has completed a black stone clad pavilion and amphitheatre as part of a sprawling landscape project in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec park.
The Rapunzel Visitor Center in Germany is conceived as a 'walk-in building sculpture'
Mar 06, 2023by STIRworld Mar 06, 2023
haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 designed the Rapunzel Visitor Center in Legau for organic food producer Rapunzel Naturkost, with a floating roof and a ‘braided’ spiral staircase.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery gets a colonnaded extension in Harrison McCain Pavilion
Feb 22, 2023by STIRworld Feb 22, 2023
KPMB Architects complete Beaverbrook Art Gallery's three-phase expansion in Fredericton, Canada, with the new addition acting as an interactive node between the city and its people.
A built tale of continued renovation: Beato Convent Events Centre by RISCO in Lisbon
Feb 16, 2023by Jincy Iype Feb 16, 2023
The refurbishment and remodeling of the heritage Convento do Beato in Portugal by RISCO into an events centre is replete with a new ‘honeycomb’ ceiling and modern service systems.
Of and for the indigenous land and peoples: Qaammat Pavilion by Konstantin Arkitekter
Feb 07, 2023by Jincy Iype Feb 07, 2023
In conversation with STIR, Konstantin Ikonomidis recounts his experience of building the Qaammat Fjeld pavilion in Greenland, inspired by the powerful land and lives of the Innuit.
Pink, bold and pretty: Pink Thermal Baths by FORMA reimagines the bathhouse typology
Jan 05, 2023by Jincy Iype Jan 05, 2023
FORMA envisions a new typology by clubbing leisure activities of a bathhouse with the utilitarian functions of a data centre, at the Pink Thermal Baths in a Californian desert.
Swiss Architectural Award 2022: Honouring Xu Tiantian’s etchings in China
Dec 28, 2022by Almas Sadique Dec 28, 2022
The biennial award, organised by Switzerland-based Teatro dell'architettura Foundation, recently revealed Xu Tiantian as the winner of the Swiss Architectural Award 2022.
SANAA’s Sydney Modern Project takes form as a cascading house of culture
Dec 06, 2022by 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.
The Dance House Helsinki upgrades industrial heritage
Dec 05, 2022by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 05, 2022
Dance House Helsinki, by Finnish practices JKMM Architects and ILO architects, is a remodelling and extension project that aims to seamlessly merge the old and the new.
Studio Zhu Pei’s Zibo OCT Art Center adds ‘tectonic expression’ to courtyard plans
Nov 26, 2022by Jerry Elengical Nov 26, 2022
Comprising four stone masonry-clad volumes linked by swooping hyperboloid roofs, the cultural complex in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, blends traditional and modernist references.
DS+R designs an "uncommon commons" with Prior Performing Arts Center
Oct 19, 2022by Zohra Khan Oct 19, 2022
American firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has parametrically modelled the Prior Performing Arts Center as a creativity and cultural beacon for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The new National Museum of Peru (MUNA) quotes traditional Andean settlements
Oct 15, 2022by Jerry Elengical Oct 15, 2022
Encased within a quadrangular form that helps to reinvigorate a degraded site, the project by leonmarcial arquitectos boasts a quadrangular form resting low amid a desert landscape.
Woyun Platform conceived by Archermit reclines easy among misty clouds in China
Oct 08, 2022by Jincy Iype Oct 08, 2022
The minimal white form of Woyun Platform is designed as a landscape mingling with clouds, catering to locals and city dwellers around China’s mountainous Longmenshan Town.
Mæ Architects' sustainably rooted response to the community needs of Fulham
Sep 07, 2022by Zohra Khan Sep 07, 2022
Empowering the space with a sustainably-oriented approach, the London-based studio designs a lightweight and adaptable community complex in London’s South Park.
Monologue Art Museum by Wutopia Lab encourages solitary, creative recharging
Sep 02, 2022by Jincy Iype Sep 02, 2022
Described by Wutopia Lab as a “slowly unfolding hand scroll”, the Monologue Art Museum in China with three monoliths placed around a water garden, practices intended introversion.
The Water Drop Library is a circular spectacle perched on a cliff in China
Sep 02, 2022by Jerry Elengical Sep 02, 2022
Crowned by a rooftop pool that stretches towards the South China Sea, this library by 3andwich Design / He Wei Studio radiates a “poetic tension” by virtue of its dramatic form.
Hungary’s New Museum of Ethnography enthrals with its pixelated, glittering façade
Aug 30, 2022by Jincy Iype Aug 30, 2022
The lyrical façade of the Museum of Ethnography by Napur Architect is inserted with half a million "pixels", depicting motifs from the museum's Hungarian and international collections.
Victoria welcomes Australia’s first and only purpose-built LGBTQIA Pride Centre
Aug 13, 2022by Jincy Iype Aug 13, 2022
The Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne by Brearley Architects + Urbanists and Grant Amon Architects reveals an atypical form of interconnected tubes wrapped in a concrete skin.
Site Verrier de Meisenthal marries industrial heritage with a current institutional identity
Jul 11, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jul 11, 2022
Designed by SO-IL and FREAKS as an active cultural centre within a historic glass factory, the swooping concrete intervention unites masses, spaces, and purposes.
Art of preserving memory: The Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre in Bangladesh
Jun 27, 2022by Zohra Khan Jun 27, 2022
Speaking with Bangladeshi architect Rizvi Hassan, STIR discovers the journey of a community space designed for the Rohingya refugees to strengthen their collective identity.
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