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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by Daria Kravchuk Nov 16, 2023
The Central Asian country is working to enhance social cohesion and ensure its presence on the global art stage.
by Zohra Khan Nov 13, 2023
New York-based REX studio have designed the final public element on the World Trade Center site.
by 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.
by 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.
by Zohra Khan Oct 30, 2023
A small music school in the marginalised residential region of Yuguelito serves as a community refuge to learning guitar.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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Paris-based K architectures designs a cultural centre that seamlessly blends historical references with modern aesthetics and cutting-edge technology.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.’
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
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 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by 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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