•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Jerry Elengical Feb 28, 2023
The social housing project by Alexander Gorlin Architects in New York has a varicoloured façade with a rhythmic grid to elevate Latino communities and disadvantaged residents.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 24, 2023
As a simple concrete block stretching 36.5 metres, with rope brise-soleil dressing its exterior, this home by mf+arquitetos in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, hovers over the site.
by STIRworld Feb 11, 2023
The residence was designed with natural materials, inculcating traditional styles to serve as a memento for the client’s family members.
by Almas Sadique Feb 10, 2023
The Norwegian architectural studio constructed the humbly sized wooden cabin in the forested region of north Oslo for a small family.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Jerry Elengical Oct 05, 2022
Designed for an avid traveller and his family, this residence blends tropical modern aesthetics with traditional elements in Kannur, Kerala, India.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Sep 21, 2022
Swiss practice Modunita Architects introduces cohesive materiality and retain traditional form to add an additional layer of history to the existing structure in Graubünden, Switzerland.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 21, 2022
This brick and concrete home by Santiago Viale and Associates, on a site formerly under the city’s green belt, circumvents existing trees to minimise its environmental impact.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 17, 2022
Placed atop stilts on a site near Biscayne Bay along Florida’s coastline, the Stewart Avenue Residence is a flood-resistant abode realised in board-formed concrete.
by Jincy Iype Sep 13, 2022
Conceived by 5468796 Architecture and Kasian Architecture, Interior Design and Planning, the elliptical parking facility in Calgary, Canada, boasts a flexible, “future-proof” design.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 31, 2022
Studio Andrew Trotter, Gavalas Ioannidou Architecture, and Eva Papadaki collaborate to bring an industrial building back to life in Athens, Greece.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 29, 2022
On a pentagonal corner plot in the Ōta Ward of Japan’s capital, this two-storey home maintains the privacy of its users while offering abundant natural light and insulation.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 19, 2022
Occupying a sloping plot in the city of Nagoya, Japan, the residence designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects uses age-old Japanese masonry to create a subdued sanctuary for its users.
by STIRworld Aug 16, 2022
Designed and realised by Sunland Group and Contreras Earl Architecture, the 44-storey skyscraper has a rippling glass façade set atop an organic pedestal inspired by the ocean.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 11, 2022
Alfredo Navarro Tiznado of Arquitetura Nativa has completed a home for a retired archaeologist in Baja California, employing local artisanal techniques to honour the site’s heritage.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 10, 2022
Perched atop stilts that blend in with the surrounding tree trunks on a sloped site in the Minas Gerais region, this concrete and glass shelter conforms to the flow of its context.
by Jerry Elengical Aug 04, 2022
This home by Art and Architecture Associates employs enclosures of compacted earth and gabion walls, channelling sustainability through indigenous building practices and materials.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 29, 2022
In Singapore, Czarl Architects has extruded the footprint of a sloped site for a residence composed of stacked blocks whose irregular form aims to radiate a ‘masculine’ silhouette.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 26, 2022
K-Thengono Design Studio has derived influences from traditional rice barns in local vernacular architecture for this contemporary home in Bintaro, Tangarang, Indonesia.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 25, 2022
Designed by Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates as a retirement home for a couple in Huế, Vietnam, this residence comprises transparent blocks placed within a forested landscape.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 22, 2022
'Paradinha-11 Cabins in the Woods' explores the potential of the firm's prefabricated Gomos building system in a mixed-use housing and hospitality development on a sloping site.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 19, 2022
Boasting a jagged form that hovers over the IJmeer lake in Amsterdam, this 46,000 sqm housing development offers a contemporary take on classical courtyard buildings.
by Anmol Ahuja Jul 15, 2022
True to its name, the House of Concrete Experiments, designed by Samira Rathod Design Atelier, conducts material, compositional, formative, and performative trials with concrete.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 15, 2022
NO Architects Designers and Social Artists has reused parts of an existing dilapidated structure to create a tropical weekend retreat featuring extremes in spatial vocabulary.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 12, 2022
In Singapore’s one-north district, this residential complex blends playful exposed concrete, vibrant murals, and greenery in two seven-storey wings linked by an inhabited bridge.
by Kriti Dhingra Jul 04, 2022
On Didi Contractor’s first death anniversary, architect Kriti Dhingra remembers the journey of working with her and her luminous stance on reviving traditional adobe construction.
by Jerry Elengical Jun 27, 2022
Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners has married exposed concrete massing with greenery to mediate the structure’s bold presence in the neighbouring urban landscape.
by Jerry Elengical Jun 17, 2022
Situated near the centre of Bruz, a town in northwestern France, this housing complex channels contrasts, with a greenhouse-like atrium and intersecting gangways above public gardens.
by Jerry Elengical May 25, 2022
Designed by Francisco Cadau Oficina de Arquitectura, this housing complex in Campana, near Buenos Aires has a stereotomic façade with alternating apartments and terraced patios.
by STIRworld May 21, 2022
In the heart of Tanglin’s affluent residential area in Singapore, Wallflower Architecture + Design etches a tropical narrative through the Water Garden House.
by Jerry Elengical May 03, 2022
Designed by Brazilian practice Marcos Bertoldi Arquitetos, this residence blurs divisions between interior and exterior with a decidedly tropical and contemporary aesthetic.
by Jerry Elengical Apr 23, 2022
Blending subtle concrete architecture with nature, this joint family residence in Zhangzhou by More Than Arch Studio is an inward-looking microcosm of traditional garden landscapes.
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