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by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 16, 2023
The airport design project focuses on Iceland’s progressive goals, establishing a relationship between economics, employment opportunities, and sustainable development.
by Jincy Iype Feb 07, 2023
In conversation with STIR, Konstantin Ikonomidis recounts his experience of building the Qaammat Fjeld pavilion in Greenland, inspired by the powerful land and lives of the Innuit.
by STIRworld Jan 10, 2023
Comprising a Tea House, Farm House, and Sky House, Snøhetta’s design for Pavilia Farm residential development is a calming ‘green lung’ for the busy city life of Tai Wai, Hong Kong.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Dec 17, 2022
ReFiguring, one painting at a time by Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben Gallery in New York underscores how the painter incessantly follows the labour of effort to sustain her artistic oeuvre.
by Daria Kravchuk Nov 29, 2022
Sarah Foryame Lawler, the Head of Curatorial Planning in the Public Art department at Qatar Museums, speaks to STIR on public art, and connecting people and places.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 08, 2022
For NOW Gallery's 2022 Art Commission, the Korean artist has created an immersive installation, Maiden Voyage, inspired by memories, dreams, emotions, and her personal experience.
by Sunena V Maju Sep 01, 2022
Amruta Daulatabadkar Architects (adaa) designs the Ramai Boys Hostel in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, with the minimalism of Indian architecture to portray spaces encouraging interaction.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 29, 2022
Winning the competition for a mixed-use complex, MVRDV proposes the Oasis Towers extending an integral dialogue between nature and the urban fabric of the Jiangbei financial district.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 08, 2022
Winning the competition for the restructuring and extension of the new Fontvieille site, Studio Fuksas' proposal is a vertical park connecting the natural and urban landscape.
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 STIRworld Jul 18, 2022
Appearing to be floating above the ground, Birdhouses by Alexis Dornier is a stilted spectacle of tropical modernism in the tranquil rainforests of Bali.
by STIRworld Jul 16, 2022
Ahead of the live event in Lisbon, World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2022 reveals the shortlisted projects in the categories of Completed Buildings, Future Projects and Landscape.
by STIRworld Jun 25, 2022
Colorado Villa is a personal interpretation by noa* of the archetypal American holiday home encapsulated in an A-frame structure.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 21, 2022
The UK-based environmental artist Steve Messam with his 'bigger than a house' site-specific installations disturbs the familiar face of the landscape to unfold stories around it.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 01, 2022
Designed as an ode to the water village of Jiangnan, Shaoxing, the An Villa uses its internal landscape to manifest nostalgia and memories of rain in its architecture.
by Zohra Khan Nov 01, 2021
Drawing from triggers on how space can activate behaviours, the pavilion design by the Shanghai-based studio turns a countryside landscape in China into a public space.
by Zohra Khan Aug 10, 2021
The San Francisco Design Week 2021 themed around 'Power' brought together different virtual discourses conveying a common message: with great power comes great possibility.
by STIRworld May 11, 2020
The proposal for the Russian countryside campus, an entry in a competition, places the inter-connectedness of social and natural environments as a core element of learning.
by Zohra Khan May 06, 2020
Speaking with STIR, the Iranian architect discusses the concept behind Retrofuturism – a series of photomontages that formulate a new definition around restoration in Iran.
by Meghna Mehta Apr 30, 2020
Colourful perforated sun breakers inspired from native flora adorn the latest building of the Botanicca Corporate Park in Melbourne, reminiscing a 200-year-old green-scape.
by Zohra Khan Apr 28, 2020
To mark the 200th birth anniversary of Mendel in 2022, a new greenhouse will be built at the famed site in Brno where the father of modern genetics conducted his breeding experiments.
by Meghna Mehta Apr 16, 2020
Thomas Heatherwick's Little Island - a public park and a performance space - with its mushroom-shaped concrete columns is slowly taking shape off the Hudson River shoreline.
by Jincy Iype Apr 10, 2020
STIR marks the birth anniversary of American architect Joseph Allen Stein, known for his ‘buildings in the garden’ such as the India International Centre and India Habitat Centre in Delhi.
by Architecture BRIO Mar 13, 2020
Robert Verrijt, the co-founder of Mumbai-based Architecture BRIO, explains the 14-step design process of the sea-facing Plantation Retreat that puts emphasis on the built form.
by Jincy Iype Jan 16, 2020
The renovation of New York's 550 Madison and the new garden redefine the landmark as a state-of-the-art office tower, displaying a sustainable model for adaptive reuse.
by Shefali Balwani Sep 26, 2019
Architect Shefali Balwani brings back a beautiful slice of the past from her recent family holiday at Casa da Eira in Portugal.
by Jincy Iype Aug 16, 2019
MVRDV conceptualises an office and residential building in the Dutch village of Sint-Michielsgestel, with its façade covered in plants, set within a gridded, ‘rack’ system.
by Zohra Khan Aug 08, 2019
Vietnam-based Farming Architects built an open air library in a villa, with an impressive aquaponics system, to teach kids about sustainable food production.
by Dan Hogman Aug 07, 2019
Architect and artist Dan Hogman illustrates a component of soft landscape - the shrubs - and its presentation in architectural drawings as seen in elevation.
by Zohra Khan May 24, 2019
Along the East River, sitting by the westernmost tip of one of New York’s five boroughs, an abandoned industrial landscape witnesses a marvellous transformation.
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