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by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 29, 2023
Indonesia-based Ismail Solehudin Architecture creates a modern residence rooted in function and religious tradition, taking elements from traditional Indonesian architecture.
by Akash Singh Mar 27, 2023
'Classic meets Modern' in Beijing, by KiKi ARCHi, is an unlikely modernist home for the owner's collection of classic Golden nanmu wood furniture.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 27, 2023
Designed over the site of an abandoned 1950s petrol station in London, the building borrows its visual vocabulary from nearby railway arches and housing complexes.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 27, 2023
STIR interviews the author of Mies van der Rohe: The Collective Housing Collection about Mies' pioneering exploits in urban housing, for the late architect’s 137th birth anniversary.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 25, 2023
Antwerp-based Studio Okami creates a modern home wrapped in reflective aluminium, glass, and concrete.
by Pallavi Mehra Mar 18, 2023
At Casa Mateo, sprawling social areas open into the natural landscape, blurring the boundaries between the indoors and outdoors, with panoramic vistas of the Pacific Ocean.
by Jincy Iype Mar 11, 2023
To renovate a 60-year-old home in Japan, Ohta repurposed its original doors and window frames by creating an aesthetical collage, and as elements forming the staircase handrail.
by ABB Mar 03, 2023
Head in the clouds but firmly anchored to the ground, London's second tallest skyscraper, 22 Bishopsgate is designed by PLP / Architecture.
by Jincy Iype Mar 02, 2023
Designed as a 'house within a house,' Casa Vista by Studio MK27 rests atop a 46m tall cliff in the seaside town of Trancoso in Brazil, made conspicuous with its theatrical horizontality.
by Sunena V Maju Mar 02, 2023
In their attempts of bringing in natural light, ventilation and vegetation, ODDO architects create CH House as a modern take on the traditional tube houses of Vietnam.
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 Jincy Iype Feb 27, 2023
With the celebration of craftsmanship at its core, The Brick House by The Purple Ink Studio in Mangalore responds to a tropical climate with its brick materiality and passive strategies.
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 Pallavi Mehra Feb 20, 2023
Architecture firm Spiegel Aihara Workshop has modernised the Wraparound House's foundation while maintaining its 1930s design aesthetic, located in the Marina District.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Feb 15, 2023
The Pepper Tree Passive House by architect Alexander Symes in Unanderra, Australia, keeps sustainability at its core without sacrificing comfort or aesthetics.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 15, 2023
Overlooking the River Isumi near Chiba, Japan, this rental villa is a safe haven for guests to experience nature without any barriers, inside a space tinged with an air of rustic charm.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 13, 2023
Overlooking a paddy field in Thiruvankulam, Kerala, the house has been assembled on a prefabricated steel skeleton, which employs the grid as an organisational foundation.
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 Jerry Elengical Feb 10, 2023
The unassuming residence exhibits a dark naturalistic materiality that melts into the surrounding forest, allowing the context to become the protagonist of its design scheme.
by Afra Safa Feb 09, 2023
A.H.Office redefines an ordinary house, inspired by the arches and light shafts of traditional desert architecture, as a modern, elegantly designed café in Iran's desert city Kerman.
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 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 Pallavi Mehra Jan 19, 2023
Palace Gate London, a residential apartment by Tala Fustok Studio, has all the hallmarks of a high-end boutique hotel, featuring a mix of vintage furniture and contemporary art.
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 STIRworld Jan 14, 2023
With STIR as a media partner, winners of the International Design Awards' 16th edition were announced in its architectural, interior, fashion, product, and graphic design categories.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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