•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by STIRworld Dec 13, 2024
This photo essay accompanies two excerpts from the book published by Prestel, which "responds to the need to evaluate Scarpa's work within the history of architecture".
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 Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 22, 2024
The design for Feni College Boddhobhumi Sritisthombho Complex by Bangladesh-based Vector Plinth grounds the communal act of remembering through an open layout.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 07, 2022
In Montpellier, France, local firm Agence Traverses - Paysage, Urbanisme, Architecture has developed a polyvalent and contextually-integrated cemetery that resembles a public park.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 16, 2022
As an extension to the existing mausoleum at Keilor Cemetery near Melbourne, the complex pays heed to its context with local materials and a vibrant landscape design.
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 Jincy Iype Nov 29, 2021
Introspective and spiritual in approach, Studio 10’s Hall of Immortality in the Longshan Cemetery in rural China is a triangular concrete monolith symbolising the inescapability of death.
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 STIRworld May 02, 2021
The triangular monolithic pavilion in London is dedicated to the memory of Cherry Groce, whose unjust shooting at the hands of the Metropolitan Police sparked the 1985 Brixton riot.
by Zohra Khan Oct 16, 2020
Dedicated to the lost soldiers of Niger, the architecture is conceived as a ‘labyrinth of abstraction’ expressed through a concrete colonnade and an underground civic space.
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 Dan Hogman Nov 20, 2019
Artist and architect Dan Hogman gives us a sketched reflection of M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, a monumental creation by Herzog and de Meuron.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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