•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Jincy Iype Feb 12, 2024
The memorial in China, spelt by gently enclosed walls and meditative spaces, honours local legend Tao Yiqiu, as a solemn place “that allows viewers to gaze into their own hearts.”
by Jincy Iype Dec 17, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR's selection of sculptural concrete architecture built this year, that created contemporary forms of fancy, at once poetic, fluid, theatrical, and powerful.
by Anmol Ahuja Jan 18, 2022
A memorial for the victims of the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, Smriti Van by Vastu Shilpa Consultants is spread across volatile Kutchi terrain and uses natural channels to transcend monumentality.
by Zohra Khan Dec 13, 2021
Adjaye Associates is set to build the Barbados Heritage District, dedicated to documenting the harrowing portal through which millions of African lives toiled and suffered.
by Jincy Iype Sep 30, 2021
Angular brick walls crowned with reflective steel volumes shape the memorial by Daniel Libeskind, the first to memorialise the 1,02,000 names of the Dutch Holocaust victims.
by Gurmeet S. Rai Sep 23, 2021
Walking through the revamped historical monument of the 1919 massacre, conservation architect and heritage expert Gurmeet S. Rai reviews and rues the design disaster.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 09, 2021
The Mausoleum of the Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Michniów, occupies the site of one of the Second World War’s greatest tragedies known as the 'Pacification of Michniów'.
by Jincy Iype Sep 28, 2020
Celebrating nature’s mighty presence, the circular cultural memorial will be built on Montevideo’s coastline, as a space to reflect, mourn and remember victims of COVID-19.
by Jincy Iype Jan 21, 2020
‘Levenslicht’, or ‘Light of Life’, is a new monument in Rotterdam made of 104,000 glowing blue rocks, representing victims and the Jewish tradition of placing stones on graves.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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