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What the map does not know: Examining the land in Photographic Geomancy
Sep 12, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Sep 12, 2025
Fotografiska Shanghai’s group exhibition considers geography through the lens of contemporary Chinese image-making.
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Habitat 0 offers a circular dialogue between architecture and landscape
Jul 30, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 30, 2025
RA Design Studio conceives a community hub in Ahmedabad as 'a space where boundaries dissolve: between home and landscape, architecture and experience'.
Paulíny Hovorka Architects designs a brutalist Y-shaped haven in rural Slovakia
Jul 08, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 08, 2025
Rooted in Slovak culture, the Banánka House is an architectural narrative of family, culture and the seamless embrace of nature.
Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits – Between Korea and the Middle East
Jun 30, 2025by Lee Daehyung Jun 30, 2025
This exhibition reconfigures transnational exchange by foregrounding digital media, conceptual installations and archival interventions by Korean and Middle Eastern contemporary artists.
Judy Watson’s ancestral cartographies map memories at Aranya Art Center
Jun 02, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jun 02, 2025
In her first solo museum show in China, the Waanyi artist from Australia reflects on land, water and ancestral memory, mapping insidious ecological loss.
CLOU Architects' Wuhan Ski Resort brings winter to subtropical Wuhan
Apr 16, 2025by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 16, 2025
With immersive programming and a striking modular design, the resort lends commentary on China’s dichotomous but hedonistic embrace of mega structures and simulated worlds.
The Tselinny Center emerges as a catalyst for art, community and change in Almaty
Feb 26, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Feb 26, 2025
British architect Asif Khan's architectural vision for the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture anchors a space for creativity, critical thought and ecological reflection.
Casa Roble emphasises lightness within a hefty exposed concrete shell
Feb 25, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 25, 2025
The design for the private residence by Madrid-based studio MUKA Arquitectura takes modernist materials like concrete and glass with a contemporary take on residential architecture.
Toronto's first PHIUS-certified home adopts high-efficiency passive design concepts
Feb 15, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Feb 15, 2025
Embracing environmental stewardship, the West Don Ravine Passive House by Poiesis Architecture receives the PHIUS Passive House certification.
MUDA-Architects' community centre mirrors the sinuous form of Wenjiang’s Jinma River
Jan 04, 2025by Simran Gandhi Jan 04, 2025
The Lujiatan Wetland Park Commercial Service Centre in China integrates ecological design with fluid spaces, a spiralling tower and a hydrophilic deck.
Spaces of flavour and form: STIR spotlights the most captivating cafés
Dec 28, 2024by STIRworld Dec 28, 2024
STIRred 2024: From cinematic whimsy to biophilic harmony, these café designs explore how immersive storytelling and innovative architecture elevate the dining experience
Curtains of glass envelop the cuboidal geometry of Swiss Embassy in Singapore
Dec 12, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Dec 12, 2024
The Swiss practice Berrel Kräutler Architekten renovates and expands a former chancery building to accommodate 30 workspaces around a central courtyard.
Five sequentially staggered volumes shape The Lake House retreat
Nov 26, 2024by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Nov 26, 2024
Danish architect Sigurd Larsen blends timber structures with glass facades and nature for a serene sports and wellness sanctuary in Berlin.
Ruth Patir's crushingly candid work on the burdens of the female body
Nov 22, 2024by Hili Perlson Nov 22, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Female goddesses and advanced medical technology meet in a feminist saga about fertility and self-determination at the Israel Pavilion.
Healing through learning: Inside the ABF Maria Manetti Shrem Educational Centre
Nov 02, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Nov 02, 2024
Alvisi Kirimoto studio creates a nature-inspired pavilion in Italy, with a central oval music laboratory and other activity areas for young patients to learn, play and connect.
Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann offers elegant housing spaces
Oct 31, 2024by Dhwani Shanghvi Oct 31, 2024
The almshouse reconsiders community housing, providing a tranquil yet connected environment for elderly residents in inner-city Bermondsey, London.
A canyon in the city: One River North brings Colorado's landscape into urban Denver
Oct 30, 2024by Nikitha Sunil Oct 30, 2024
MAD Architects' canyon-inspired design for the tower weaves a natural narrative into city living, offering residents an immersive connection to the environment.
kaviar:collaborative reinterprets vernacular entities for a contemporary villa in India
Sep 16, 2024by Bansari Paghdar Sep 16, 2024
House by the Lake is a luxurious lakeside residence in Maharashtra, India, primarily made of stone and glass, featuring reclaimed wood elements and minimal furniture.
The Lumen Learning Centre seeks an architecture of "unbearable lightness"
Sep 04, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 04, 2024
The learning centre designed by MGM arquitectos and Beaudouin Architectes for the University of Paris-Saclay is enveloped in a porous façade, giving it the appearance of a floating cloud.
Steven Holl's Ostrava Concert Hall conducts light and music as a harmonic whole
Aug 10, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 10, 2024
The concert hall designed by the New York-based Steven Holl Architects for the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic is a sublime architectural insertion within an existing historic context.
Engage, Play, Discover and Make at the Museum of Solutions in Mumbai
Jul 23, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 23, 2024
A JSW initiative, the museum for children has been conceived by Ratan J Batliboi Consultants and Bricolage Bombay with an immersive design that encourages creative learning.
An indoor sports arena in India integrates into its landscape, delicately asserts its form
Jul 04, 2024by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jul 04, 2024
A pyramidal roof soaring over central courts and surrounded by sloping grassy paths compose a new sports arena by Thirdspace Architecture Studio in Hubbali, Karnataka.
A modular, sustainable design defines the new Student Pavilion at TU Braunschweig
Jun 06, 2024by Dhwani Shanghvi Jun 06, 2024
Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke develop an experimental campus typology radicalising architectural education and reviving an endangered European identity.
Fala Atelier's House of Many Faces in Porto partakes in peculiar domestic bigness
Jun 04, 2024by Jincy Iype Jun 04, 2024
In its almost underdone finishings, unusual decor and unique spatial proportions, a former warehouse in Portugal was renovated into a home that avoids obvious signs of domesticity.
MuseLAB crafts an immersive lunar landscape in terracotta hues in Gujarat
Apr 24, 2024by Kiranmmayie S Apr 24, 2024
An oasis amidst Ahmedabad’s busy streets, Luire by MuseLAB blends earthly roots and contemporary design, creating a retail experience beyond expectation.
The space settler’s practical guide to building ‘A City on Mars’
Apr 18, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 18, 2024
STIR speaks to Kelly Weinersmith, one of the authors of the popular science book that uncovers the realities of inhabiting space and how far-fetched some space designs may be.
Is Freedom Plaza bringing real change to New York’s housing landscape?
Apr 03, 2024by Aarthi Mohan Apr 03, 2024
STIR delves into the ambitious agenda of the Freedom Plaza, crafted by BIG architects, which seeks to reshape affordable housing in the heart of New York City.
Nikhil Chopra’s 'Line of Fire' at Chatterjee & Lal layers contemporary anxieties
Mar 06, 2024by Manu Sharma Mar 06, 2024
Gallerist Mortimer Chatterjee explores contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra's unnerving landscape works in an interview with STIR.
1,000 Pieces of glass blocks breathe new life into ABEZ's freshly renovated workspace
Mar 06, 2024by Jincy Iype Mar 06, 2024
By reinterpreting common construction elements for their new HQs in Spain, ABEZ Design attests to the allure of innovative material applications over the materials themselves.
BORD plays on the familiar geometry of gable roofs for BudaPrés Cider in Hungary
Feb 05, 2024by Jincy Iype Feb 05, 2024
The facility roisters with a concept combining the essence of apple cider, a bucolic context, and the classic geometries of the Scottish plaid and the traditional pitched roof.
pbm creates an inventive layering of glass brick walls for this warehouse in Thailand
Jan 17, 2024by Zohra Khan Jan 17, 2024
The 'Where’s House Warehouse' sits as a light-filled, glass-clad, office-warehouse hybrid that avoids the impression of being an enclosure.
kaviar:collaborative designs Affogato to resemble hole-in-wall art galleries
Jan 14, 2024by Almas Sadique Jan 14, 2024
The Indian studio shapes the cafe in the image of a subterranean sculptural art gallery, where the experience of drinking coffee is at the forefront.
SENAA architekti’s Aquapark in Kyjov imparts strong linearity to 'fluid' architecture
Jan 09, 2024by Anmol Ahuja Jan 09, 2024
Exploring the liminal space between modern and modernist, Aquapark Sport and Relaxation Centre delineates its newer interventions and older remnants through fluid thresholds.
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.
Nuevo Arquitetura designs a residence inspired by themes popular in Studio Ghibli
Oct 21, 2023by Almas Sadique Oct 21, 2023
The residential building in Brasilia, Brazil, draws inspiration from the aesthetics and themes often explored in Studio Ghibli animation films.
Tabarestan Foundry Restoration breathes new soul into the factory’s office
Aug 26, 2023by Afra Safa Aug 26, 2023
Tabarestan Foundry restoration project by Rasta design studio acts as a marketing tool to bring this four-decade-old establishment up to speed.
Cumulus Studio designs a whisky distillery that celebrates local architecture
Aug 12, 2023by Pallavi Mehra Aug 12, 2023
The Callington Mill Distillery is a modern and refined factory cum whisky experience centre in Tasmania, Australia.
Bjarke Ingels leads a walkthrough of BIG's new HQ in Copenhagen
Jul 28, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Jul 28, 2023
Bjarke Ingels Group's new headquarters integrates culture, climate, and ever-changing patterns of contemporary life. STIR tours their soon-to-be-completed office building.
The Boatyard Hotel: A nautical design by GOA inspired by boat awnings
Jun 01, 2023by Shivangi Buch Jun 01, 2023
Inspired by the local boats with curved covers, the China-based Group of Architects has designed a boutique hotel that becomes part of the river town landscape.
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