by Jerry Elengical Feb 03, 2023
At the highest point of an uneven site near São Paulo, Brazil, the house by Felipe Caboclo Arquitectura has massing composed of alternating solids and voids to conserve privacy.
by Samiksha Chaudhary Feb 02, 2023
In a narrow plot in Tokyo, 'A Japanese Manga Artist’s House,' with a sloping facade, elements of constructivism and deconstructivism, ties tangible daily life to a sense of fiction.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Feb 01, 2023
Avant-garde Argentinian artist and designer Edgardo Gimenez creates a vibrant structure for the Fundación Ama Amoedo residency program.
by 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.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 27, 2023
Designed for a client and his mother on the site of their original home, the residence boasts ornate detailing and contemporary flair inside a space that evokes childhood memories.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Jan 24, 2023
Designed by Mathew and Ghosh Architects, the house, located in Coonoor, invokes the pre-colonial landscape—through a deliberate revival of the native Nilgiri.
by STIRworld Jan 21, 2023
The architecture of Slow Courtyard in the Hills in Yaoziyu, China provides a unique example of referencing history and memory through the typological exploration of courtyard design.
by Jincy Iype Jan 18, 2023
This conceptual restoration project by JSPA Design in Beijing stands for second chances, merging the old and new and borrowing elements from traditional Chinese architecture.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 17, 2023
Workshop, Diseño y Construcción has renovated an early 20th-century home on a narrow plot in Mérida, Yucatán, blending modern sensibilities with traditional flourishes.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Jan 16, 2023
Designed by architecture studio Birdseye - Homestead, located in South Hero, Vermont - is an interpretation of the built environment in its vicinity.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 14, 2023
Blending into a rocky inhospitable site, in Tamil Nadu, India, the home is a collection of whirling forms in precast mud and waste, offering up a model for building in harsh contexts.
by Salvatore Peluso Jan 14, 2023
The project promoted by the collector Silvia Fiorucci and the non-profit Società delle Api, involves four emerging designers to transform the rooms of a house on the Greek island.
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 Amarjeet Singh Tomar Jan 09, 2023
The Dong Fureng House Museum, reinstated in a listed brick-wood building, commemorates the life and legacy of the eminent economist of the same name.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Jan 07, 2023
The 130-year cabin is transformed by the addition of a glistening glass extension that links the old cabin to the future.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 06, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky reviews Carson Vista 581, a sculptural four-level house designed by Kelly & Stone Architects in Truckee, California, United States.
by STIRworld Jan 05, 2023
Remodelling the neighbourhood of El Terreno, MVRDV + GRAS’s Project Gomila is a vibrant and sustainable residential hub planned around the city's Mediterranean harbour.
by STIRworld Jan 04, 2023
In Mexico’s Valle de Bravo, Casa El Pinar by CF Taller de Arquitectura and Merodio Arquitectos strikes contemporaneity with pine wood, concrete, steel, glass, and local stone.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 04, 2023
The home, comprising three staggered volumes that connect at their vertices to emulate a terraced walkway, carve a path that zig-zags through the landscape before it.
by Jerry Elengical Jan 03, 2023
On a hillside overlooking the city of Medellín, Colombia, this residence channels tropical modernism with restrained materiality, terminating in an infinity pool with pristine views.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 30, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR celebrates recent Indian architecture which illuminated the multiplicity and sensitivity of the country’s practitioners across varied contexts and typologies.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Dec 27, 2022
Malik Architecture renounces familiarity of steel and concrete in favour of Rajasthan's historic relationship with sandstone, carving out a contemporary home for its habitants.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Dec 20, 2022
San Francisco-based Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) transforms the mid-century modern home by opening the core.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 20, 2022
Etched into the sloping terrain overlooking the Narew River, the project features a swerving façade of sintered stone and glass that welcomes nature inwards.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 19, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR rounds up five architectural projects that displayed commitment towards community upliftment and helped reinvent a social identity.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 19, 2022
The concept of Mexico's Velascan landscape is developed primarily through the façade in a ranch house by Operadora, located in Singuilucan, Hidalgo in Mexico.
by Jerry Elengical Dec 17, 2022
Commissioned as the first prize for the 75th Sorteos Tec raffle organised by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, the project addresses an irregular site through contradiction.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Dec 12, 2022
Atelier Landschaft uses a restrained geometry and clean straight lines to create a series of subdued masses with Lakeshore, a vacation home in Nashik, India.
by Jincy Iype Dec 01, 2022
The “inward-looking” Cool House is designed by SRDA with a propensity to cool itself, as an architectural response to the dry, arid region of Bharuch in Gujarat, India that it calls home.
by Nadezna Siganporia Nov 29, 2022
A modern, bunker-like holiday home by award-winning architect Stacey Farrell allows for the rugged topography and wilderness to lead the stealthy design.
by STIRworld Nov 12, 2022
The black exterior of the MEV Cabin nestled deep in the Laurentian Forest in Canada contrasts cinematically with its kaleidoscopic insides that pay homage to the colourful ethos of Memphis.
by Jincy Iype Nov 10, 2022
Drawing from the sensibilities and materiality of Colombian vernacular architecture, the earthy house by Ritmo Arquitectos is distinct in its extensive use of guadua timber bamboo.
by Nadezna Siganporia Nov 07, 2022
Set within a lush garden and overlooking Hobson Bay, Hamish Cameron Architecture creates a sophisticated home featuring a series of cubic volumes opening out to the landscape.
by Jincy Iype Nov 01, 2022
PMA Madhushala attempts a sensitive take on vernacular Indian architecture with the Gadi House, its perforated brick and stone skin enveloping multiple petite courtyards inside.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Oct 27, 2022
The Ideareve-Ikegami is a mixed-use complex in a dense context, that is not just historical but also one that typifies the Japanese logical mess.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 26, 2022
Casa Toquilla by Rama Estudio aims to bring back the vernacular architecture of Ecuador with toquilla straw weave and materiality of bamboo and wood in an earthquake hit island.
by Zohra Khan Oct 21, 2022
The Kerala-based architect crafts an indigenous building technique using soil and granite waste to design Flintstone6 - a two-bed cottage in southern India.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 17, 2022
For the design of Suspension House, Fougeron Architecture remodelled a house nestled between two hills into a suspended steel structure spanning the creek
by Nadezna Siganporia Oct 17, 2022
Kyvik House, a private home in Kullavik, Sweden, by Sjöblom Freij Arkitekter consists of three distinct parts held together by a rigorous exposed wood structure.
by Sunena V Maju Oct 12, 2022
In São Paulo, Studio Guilherme Torres etches cuboidal volumes for a country home that aims to reconnect with nature amid the Atlantic Forest.
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