•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by STIRworld Apr 15, 2023
The Japan-based design studio has developed an upgraded version of the paper tube system for creating temporary housing in earthquake-affected Turkey and Syria.
by Jerry Elengical Mar 31, 2023
Speaking to STIR, the Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ delves into how the museum’s inaugural exhibition chronicles the city’s development across visual and spatial mediums.
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 Nov 18, 2022
Uniting minds such as Alejandro Aravena, Tatiana Bilbao, and Peter van Assche, the event probed into how cities of the future can tackle rampant urbanisation and housing demand.
by Sunena V Maju Nov 16, 2022
Peris+Toral Arquitectes designed a social housing with 54 dwellings in Bon Pastor, Barcelona, transforming the horizontal living of the community into a five-storey building.
by Anmol Ahuja Nov 14, 2022
In a multifarious, layered conversation with Sebastien Ricard of WilkinsonEyre, STIR examines the newly opened Battersea Power Station in retrospect and the afterlife of its industrial heritage.
by Anmol Ahuja Jul 27, 2022
Designed by Espacio 18 Arquitectura, the structure in Oaxaca, Mexico, adapts principles of Mexican architecture to linear volumes, proposing fresh paradigms in social row housing.
by Jincy Iype Jun 29, 2022
MAD Architects' Baiziwan Social Housing in Beijing connects the neighbourhood to the city, with 4,000 affordable households in 12 Y-shaped towers linked by an elevated public park.
by Bhawna Jaimini Jun 16, 2022
Architecture education needs to expand beyond the issues of design and aesthetics by enabling students to question and confront the issues of access.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky May 09, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky visits two recent hybrid buildings in Chicago - the Independence Library and Apartments complex and the Northtown Library and Apartments.
by Jincy Iype Mar 25, 2022
With The Railway Farm, Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste merge agriculture with affordable housing and create jobs for the vulnerable sections of the Parisian district.
by Anmol Ahuja Mar 12, 2022
A finalist for the EU Mies Award 2022, the massive residential wooden structure by Peris + Toral Arquitectes takes shape in Barcelona, proposing new paradigms in social housing.
by Jincy Iype Jan 15, 2022
STIR revisits some of Ricardo Bofill’s most iconic works, including Walden-7 and La Muralla Roja, to celebrate one of the most influential architects of post modernism on his passing.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 23, 2021
Recipient of the RIBA London Award 2021, 95 Peckham Road in London is a sprawling mansion block that seeks to reinterpret the tenement style of housing.
by Zohra Khan, Devanshi Shah Mar 17, 2021
The 2021 Pritzker Prize winners prove that radical transformation is possible without nostalgia, and familiarity, usefulness and beauty are the fundamentals of responsible living.
by Meghna Mehta Jun 22, 2020
Alejandro Aravena, born on this day in 1967, believes he was lucky to have been saved from Post-modernism. STIR brings you little known facts about the Chilean architect on his birthday.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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