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With KHRAM, MAKHNO Studio envisions an otherworldly spiritual setting
Feb 27, 2024by STIRworld Feb 27, 2024
The KHRAM Temple of three religions by MAKHNO Studio is imagined as a space for prayer, reflection, and meditation amid nature in Ukraine.
Imaginary Architecture
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Per Carlsen’s digital renderings play with the possibilities of imaginary architecture
Aug 25, 2023by Jincy Iype Aug 25, 2023
STIR speaks to the Norwegian architectural designer about his digital creations, where he imagines dystopian buildings and settings that are at once, ominous and serene.
Ontological questions lead Saul Kim toward the unconventional ‘Architecture Anomaly’
Jun 28, 2023by Jincy Iype Jun 28, 2023
For his experimental series, Kim creates abstract juxtapositions of architectural elements to arrive at ‘anomalous’ forms, discovering newer paths of assembling and inhabiting.
Of dysfunctional homes and families: The Broken Home by Integrated Field
Jan 30, 2023by Jincy Iype Jan 30, 2023
Anticipating a dysfunctional digital dystopia, Thailand-based firm IF addresses the stark reality of nuclear families through the fragmented, X-shaped layout of The Broken Home.
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.
With illuminated drones, DRIFT speculates how famous ruins would look completed
Dec 16, 2022by Jincy Iype Dec 16, 2022
Ruin value of monumental architecture: Dutch artist duo DRIFT envisages 'speculative architecture' with drone technology, to sustainably restore or complete ruins.
Rojkind Arquitectos makes its Metaverse debut with the José Cuervo Metadistillery
Sep 05, 2022by Jincy Iype Sep 05, 2022
STIR interviews Michel Rojkind, founder of Rojkind Arquitectos, on exploring the blooming realm of Metaverse architecture with the Metadistillery, modelled on the roots of an agave plant.
Discovering 'The Row', virtual architecture designed by global artists in the metaverse
Aug 18, 2022by Jincy Iype Aug 18, 2022
Co-developed by Everyrealm and The Alexander Team, 'The Row' is a members-only metaverse community designed by artists including Daniel Arsham, Andrés Reisinger, and more.
The Tower of Life by BAD grows as an empathetic, self-sustaining tower in Senegal
May 13, 2022by Jincy Iype May 13, 2022
Built by Associative Data proposes The Tower of Life in Africa, an energy-positive construction wrapped with an onsite "printed earth membrane" that operates as a living system.
Victor B. Ortiz crowns Taperá House with a monumental, gently curved grassy roof
Sep 22, 2021by Jincy Iype Sep 22, 2021
Ortiz’s architectural concept draws from the indigenous ‘Taperá style’ to emerge as a glass walled, modern Brazilian house topped by a green oblique roof that merges with its lush site.
Anchor of the Plates envisioned by 00Group bridges vast tectonic plates in Iceland
Jul 13, 2021by Jincy Iype Jul 13, 2021
A pair of monumental towers are linked by a delicate ropeway to anchor two tectonic plates, forming this landmark observation tower conceptualised by Chinese studio 00Group.
STIRring Together: Julijonas Urbonas and Jan Boelen on Lithuania’s ‘Planet of People’
Jul 09, 2021by Devanshi Shah, Anmol Ahuja Jul 09, 2021
STIR interacts with the curator and exhibitor of the Lithuania Pavilion by the Lithuanian Space Agency (LSA) on their extraterrestrial imagination at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
Sou Fujimoto imagines an ethereal tower of 99 floating islands over Qianhai Bay
Jul 03, 2021by Jincy Iype Jul 03, 2021
Ninety-nine islands form this aerial tower visualised by Sou Fujimoto Architects, floating over Shenzen Bay in China. It is the winner of Qianhai’s New City Center Landmark competition.
Living on the edge with Iranian architect and designer, Milad Eshtiyaghi
Jun 19, 2021by Jincy Iype Jun 19, 2021
Suspended between hills or jutting off cliffs, these five conceptual homes by Milad Eshtiyaghi provide slices of escapism and inspiration for cinematic, imaginary architecture.
Formalismus is the music that architects can bring to buildings: Paul Eis
Apr 06, 2021by Jincy Iype Apr 06, 2021
Eis is a German architectural student and photographer who reimagines dull grey cityscapes to be filled with whimsical, colourful buildings with his Formalismus series.
Exploring the extramundane and virtual with Neo Chemosphere and Villa Ortizet
Feb 22, 2021by Jincy Iype Feb 22, 2021
Zyva Studio and Charlotte Taylor collaborate to imagine colour-pop, fictional houses that “seek to create a metaphysical relationship between architecture and its user”.
Trnsfrm imagines a twisting, stained glass spire replacing Notre Dame cathedral roof
Oct 29, 2020by Jincy Iype Oct 29, 2020
Dutch design studio Trsnfrm reveals an alternative concept for a stained glass roof that twists into a spire, to restore the summit of Notre Dame, Paris, damaged in fires last year.
Karina Wiciak of Wamhouse studio imagines iconic brand logos as houses
Jun 03, 2020by Jincy Iype Jun 03, 2020
This series of conceptual house designs, by Polish designer Karina Wiciak of Wamhouse studio, imagines logos of brands such as Audi and Adidas as buildings of glass and concrete.
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