•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by STIRworld Aug 07, 2023
The centre, integrated into the rocky hillside with a commanding view of Iqaluit in northern Canada, is designed to harmonise with the natural features of the complex terrain.
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 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 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 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 Sunena V Maju Aug 16, 2022
Atelier Oslo and KIMA Arkiterktur transformed the two buildings constructed in the 1880s and helped shape the new identity of the Norwegian Press House.
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 STIRworld Jun 07, 2022
With BIG winning the global competition for the Vltava Philharmonic Hall in Prague, STIR examines the diversity and merit of designs submitted along with the winning entry.
by Jerry Elengical May 16, 2022
Located near Taipei’s Shilin Night Market, the long-awaited project offers a fresh take on theatres, with an additive, futuristic form to portray it as an inclusive hub for culture.
by Anmol Ahuja May 10, 2022
Designed by Studio Zhu Pei, this public cultural edifice in Anhui, China, manifests courtyards inspired by ancient settlements in the region along its horizontal and vertical planes.
by Anmol Ahuja Apr 06, 2022
Designed by locally based WCY Regional Studio, the structure revels in its bare, unadorned materiality, and brings an array of cultural activities together in its spatial sanctum.
by Jincy Iype Feb 01, 2022
CEBRA architecture conceives the new, subterranean Skamlingsbanken visitor centre in Denmark in fellowship with nature, as an architectural portal into the site’s history.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 21, 2021
Designed by a collaboration between Zone of Utopia and Mathieu Forest Architecte, the tourist centre in Xinxiang is arranged like ice cubes, finding tranquility in contradictions.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 25, 2021
L’Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, Paris, is yet another addition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s body of work dotted with the experimental spirit of the creative imagination.
by Jincy Iype Sep 23, 2021
Dorte Mandrup’s climate research and visitor centre sits light on a glacial and rugged Greenlandic bedrock, its twisting form like “a snowy owl’s flight through the landscape”.
by Jincy Iype Feb 11, 2021
Trees emerge from Fujimoto’s special floating canopy which draws from the undulant form of soundwaves; the venue is part of Liget Budapest Project and is near completion.
by Jincy Iype Sep 28, 2020
Celebrating nature’s mighty presence, the circular cultural memorial will be built on Montevideo’s coastline, as a space to reflect, mourn and remember victims of COVID-19.
by Jincy Iype Mar 23, 2020
The Whale - rising out of the stunning landscape of Norway - is a cultural museum to observe whales and the underwater wildlife, under the mystical Arctic northern lights.
by Jincy Iype Nov 01, 2019
Emerging from the frozen terrains in Svalbard, The Arc will display content from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the Arctic World Archive.
by Jincy Iype Aug 14, 2019
International design firm Snøhetta unveils a first-of-its-kind underwater restaurant cum marine life research centre, called Under, in Lindesnes, Norway.
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