•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Jerry Elengical Feb 02, 2023
As a safe haven for children from complex or dangerous households in Calvados, France, Paul Le Quernec Architectes’ design insulates users in a safe yet playful environment.
by Jerry Elengical Oct 18, 2022
Chiang Mai Life Architects have employed a knowledge and technology-driven approach to craft an eco-friendly campus influenced by Buddhist principles and vernacular architecture.
by STIRworld Jul 19, 2022
Through the circular shape of the early learning centre in Auckland, New Zealand, Smith Architects explores the multitude of sustainable prospects in educational architecture.
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 17, 2022
Designed by the British firm, the dining hall draws from the practice’s own affinity towards low tech forms and a key inspiration in the historic Arts & Crafts tradition of the UK.
by Jerry Elengical May 30, 2022
Situated in the university’s Honjo campus, Waseda University Honjo Senior High School Gymnasium is an inward-looking structure that exhibits a reverence for natural light.
by Jerry Elengical May 14, 2022
The Beijing and New York-based practice has devised a program for a campus centre within a new international school articulated as sculpted volumes separated by landscaped voids.
by Anmol Ahuja May 05, 2022
Designed as a series of interlinked building clusters inspired by tectonic boulder faces in the region, this school by GASS Architecture Studios hails local, sustainable construction.
by André Aranha Corrêa do Lago Apr 21, 2022
The Brazilian Ambassador to India, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago pens an account of Brazil’s now global architectural identity, and the exhibitions in Delhi commemorating the bicentennial.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 19, 2022
STIR visits the Building Brazil 1822-2022: 200 Years of Independence photo exhibition at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, charting a course through the country’s rich architectural history.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 11, 2022
Prof. Hubert Klumpner of ETH Zurich dives into the unique proposition of supporting the production of the Carnival of Barranquilla in Colombia with this adaptive reuse venture.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 14, 2022
As the newest addition to Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus in New York, the structures host dynamic networks of circulation that create vibrant spaces for learning.
by Devanshi Shah Mar 11, 2022
Located on the campus of Kingston University in South West London, England, the building is inspired by educational vision of the institute and conceptualised with a three-dimensional matrix.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 05, 2022
The 9500 sqm facility in Roeselare, Belgium, rests atop the headquarters of REO Veiling, and was designed by van Bergen Kolpa Architects alongside META architectuurbureau.
by Devanshi Shah Mar 05, 2022
Designed as part of the Ahmedabad University in Gujarat, India, the climate sensitive architecture by RMA Architects is conceptualised as a series of solids and voids.
by Zohra Khan Mar 01, 2022
The Lebanese practice of architect Bernard Khoury sensitively intervenes in the existing remnants of the theatre to design the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Armenia.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 25, 2022
The Ceramic Art Avenue Taoxichuan hosts a Grand Theatre, hotel complex, new public plazas, and a performing arts campus, paying tribute to industrial brick structures in Jingdezhen.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 23, 2022
The structure’s rhythmic façade establishes a new presence along Lincoln’s Inn Fields, inside the central London campus of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
by Jincy Iype Jan 13, 2022
The porous, stepped glass facades of AstraZeneca's The Discovery Centre in Cambridge, UK, completed by Herzog & de Meuron, aims to make "science visible" to the public.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 12, 2022
A variety of materials and construction techniques have created this training centre, designed by architects Enrique Espinosa and Lys Villalba for ‘dogs, humans, and other species.’
by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2021
Sir David Adjaye’s Winter Park Library & Events Center is a micro village of three pavilions for social gathering, intellectual nourishment, and enhanced connection to its tropical site.
by Anmol Ahuja Nov 26, 2021
A dynamic mixed-use space for inspiring collaboration, the NM Bodecker Foundation building emerges as a hub for creative communities amid repurposed 1950s warehouses.
by Jincy Iype Nov 25, 2021
The Hospitality Center by Megabudka in Russia draws visually from local architectural heritage and contemporary design, articulated as a set of ebony-clad geometric volumes.
by Devanshi Shah Oct 07, 2021
Mumbai-based Spasm Design’s winning proposal for the new building on the KJ Somaiya campus analyses Indian architectural typologies and archetypes.
by Jincy Iype Sep 02, 2021
Sans ornamentation, Vermilion Zhou's adaptive reuse of a Victorian clubhouse in Beijing, China, into the all-white Song Art Museum unifies oriental and western design thought.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 31, 2021
The world’s largest astronomy museum in Shanghai functions as a veritable astronomical instrument, with immersive spaces to remind visitors of humanity's place in the cosmos.
by Jincy Iype May 29, 2021
Conceived by the Pritzker winning architect, a 500-metre ribbon of steel and aluminium encircles the two distinct wings of Suzhou Bay Cultural Centre in China.
by Jincy Iype May 20, 2021
The renaissance of the living museum, Montreal Biodome in Canada by KANVA employs multi sensorial spaces that focus not just on humans, but the flora and fauna it so impressively houses.
by Jincy Iype May 11, 2021
Roman arches fuse with Italian piazzas and Chinese tea rooms in the pristine white art hall complex by aoe, sitting amid nature in Chengdu, China, as a landmark of cultural exchange.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 03, 2021
A striking blue colour and a wave like thick sheath wrapping around its three-sided layout lend this library-cum-theatre in Shanghai its famous nickname, ‘the blue whale’.
by Anmol Ahuja Dec 21, 2020
Designed with Australian real estate group Lendlease for an international competition, the design by CRA explores how a historical institution is transformed for the digital age.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 10, 2020
Touted to be one of North America’s most sustainable structures, the Catalyst Building is projected to usher in a new era of more responsible building and construction in Spokane.
by Zohra Khan Oct 03, 2020
A new art facility with ‘all fronts and no backs’, interlocking pavilions for galleries and outdoor terraces will replace the existing museum of the Princeton University.
by Meghna Mehta Jul 08, 2020
Unlike conventional institutional buildings, the circular design, recreational roof and ‘live’ exterior of the building designed by Nuru Karim in Pune aims to reduce carbon emissions.
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