•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Zohra Khan Aug 31, 2023
The pro-bono project by NBBJ, the Nickerson Gardens Playground, is a playmaze for children and adults within the largest public housing located west of Mississippi.
by Zohra Khan Aug 18, 2023
The Canada Pavilion conceived by the Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) highlights the ongoing housing crisis in Canada and its capitalist and colonialist roots.
by Anmol Ahuja May 27, 2023
STIR tours the recently completed Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins and The Trampery campus in Hackney Wick, discovering its industrial history and present day urban aspirations.
by Zohra Khan May 09, 2023
Set to be built in the historic Ecuadorian city of Quito, the mixed-use design features a swirling monochromatic high rise that nods to the contrasting energies of its place.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 31, 2023
Speaking to STIR, the Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ delves into how the museum’s inaugural exhibition chronicles the city’s development across visual and spatial mediums.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 27, 2023
Designed over the site of an abandoned 1950s petrol station in London, the building borrows its visual vocabulary from nearby railway arches and housing complexes.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 27, 2023
STIR interviews the author of Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection about Mies' pioneering exploits in urban housing, for the late architect’s 137th birth anniversary.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 28, 2023
The social housing project by Alexander Gorlin Architects in New York has a varicoloured façade with a rhythmic grid to elevate Latino communities and disadvantaged residents.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 19, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR rounds up five architectural projects that displayed commitment towards community upliftment and helped reinvent a social identity.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 18, 2022
Uniting minds such as Alejandro Aravena, Tatiana Bilbao, and Peter van Assche, the event probed into how cities of the future can tackle rampant urbanisation and housing demand.
by Sunena V Maju Nov 15, 2022
In the multi-family development of Marea by WORKac, housing reflecting the natural landscape of the Mediterranean creates a new layer for Batroun’s history.
by Sunena V Maju Sep 06, 2022
Moshe Safdie donated his professional archive including never-before-seen materials from more than 300 projects, and his unit in Habitat 67, to alma mater, McGill University in Montreal.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 12, 2022
MVRDV and Fugger Foundations create the Next500 pavilion as a platform to discuss the future of social housing, in preparation for the 500-year anniversary of the Fuggerei.
by Anmol Ahuja Jul 27, 2022
Designed by Espacio 18 Arquitectura, the structure in Oaxaca, Mexico, adapts principles of Mexican architecture to linear volumes, proposing fresh paradigms in social row housing.
by Sohil Soni Jul 23, 2022
By folding surfaces at multiple scales, Frida Escobedo Studio creates a series of domestic enclosures with varying degrees of privacy and light.
by STIRworld Jul 23, 2022
Contesting for the honour of becoming UK’s best new building, the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist presents ‘outstanding and welcoming architecture that lifts the spirit of all who engage with it’.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 22, 2022
'Paradinha-11 Cabins in the Woods' explores the potential of the firm's prefabricated Gomos building system in a mixed-use housing and hospitality development on a sloping site.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 19, 2022
Boasting a jagged form that hovers over the IJmeer lake in Amsterdam, this 46,000 sqm housing development offers a contemporary take on classical courtyard buildings.
by Jincy Iype Jun 29, 2022
MAD Architects' Baiziwan Social Housing in Beijing connects the neighbourhood to the city, with 4,000 affordable households in 12 Y-shaped towers linked by an elevated public park.
by Jerry Elengical Jun 17, 2022
Situated near the centre of Bruz, a town in northwestern France, this housing complex channels contrasts, with a greenhouse-like atrium and intersecting gangways above public gardens.
by Bhawna Jaimini Jun 16, 2022
Architecture education needs to expand beyond the issues of design and aesthetics by enabling students to question and confront the issues of access.
by Jerry Elengical May 25, 2022
Designed by Francisco Cadau Oficina de Arquitectura, this housing complex in Campana, near Buenos Aires has a stereotomic façade with alternating apartments and terraced patios.
by Natalia Torija Nieto Apr 26, 2022
The 38-year-old Kyivan sheds these titles while fighting against demolition of historic buildings, preparing rescue kits and creating an emergency housing plan within just 10 days!
by Steven Sculco Apr 09, 2022
Brooklyn-based Amoia Cody’s speculative zoning provisions for New York City are inspired by Singapore’s eco-oriented urban and architectural strategies.
by Zohra Khan Apr 07, 2022
A cluster of four apartments in a dense Tulum neighbourhood connects to the feeling of living in a jungle, amidst beaches, scorching heat and generous sky.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 29, 2022
Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors and property developer Beulah drew from the organic design vocabulary of Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in this residential project.
by Zohra Khan Mar 29, 2022
The Alcántara Housing by the Chilean studio features rows of two storied, eight residential units divided by a 'green void'.
by Jincy Iype Mar 25, 2022
With The Railway Farm, Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste merge agriculture with affordable housing and create jobs for the vulnerable sections of the Parisian district.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 22, 2022
Now listed as a finalist for the EU Mies Award 2022, the project creates a vibrant hub for culture and creativity along the Friedrichstraße commercial street in Berlin, Germany.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 11, 2022
Featuring curving, furrowed concrete walls 3D printed using ICON’s 'Vulcan' construction system, the revolutionary home will be open for tours from March 13-14 during SXSW 2022.
by STIRworld Mar 03, 2022
Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen, Alison Brooks Architects, and SLA will lead development for Toronto's waterfront, with 800+ affordable housing units and green public spaces.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 19, 2022
This residential complex in Merano, a city in Italy’s South Tyrol region, relies on a strong spatial grid and monochrome materiality to bring order to its natural context.
by Jincy Iype Jan 15, 2022
STIR revisits some of Ricardo Bofill’s most iconic works, including Walden-7 and La Muralla Roja, to celebrate one of the most influential architects of post modernism on his passing.
by Jincy Iype Jan 04, 2022
STIR speaks with Tatiana Bilbao Spamer and Joseph Schwarzkopf about Botániqo in Ecuador, a nine-tower residential development "with a human and community-centered” approach.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Nov 15, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Cino Zucchi about urbanity, excessive social engineering, and his own design methodology the architect refers to as “reverse engineering”.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 23, 2021
Recipient of the RIBA London Award 2021, 95 Peckham Road in London is a sprawling mansion block that seeks to reinterpret the tenement style of housing.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 22, 2021
Hosting lavish residences with scintillating amenities and groundbreaking landscape design, the Camellias is the first LEED Platinum certified residential development in India.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 04, 2021
On the occasion of World Architecture Day, STIR presents a selection of projects that reflect the concerns of public space, housing, and climate change highlighted this year.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 21, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky in conversation with Sergey Kuznetsov (Chief Architect of Moscow) on moving one million residents in the Russian capital to new housing blocks.
by Steven Sculco Aug 20, 2021
Steven Sculco writes about Rural Studio’s kit house prototype, speaks with director Andrew Freear and the student design-build team, and interviews the client.
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