•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Anushka Sharma Sep 02, 2025
From climate-responsive housing in Bangladesh to cultural infrastructure in Palestine, the 2025 award recipients celebrate architecture that honours heritage and inspires hope.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 30, 2025
STIR visits the 2025 Exhibit Columbus exhibition, exploring 13 curious installations spread across rooftops and streets that intertwine architecture with the city’s memory and culture.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 22, 2025
Speaking with STIR, the Thailand-based studio's founders elaborate on their understanding of working with Asian contexts and their fascination with openness and ephemerality.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 14, 2025
Juergen Benson-Strohmayer speaks to STIR about his studio’s urban interventions in Kumasi, highlighting porous, ephemeral ways of building and engaging with local contexts.
by Bansari Paghdar Aug 12, 2025
The rigorously researched counter-proposal to the state’s replacement plans for the Vyšehrad Railway Bridge prioritises preservation and cultural coexistence.
by Anushka Sharma Aug 11, 2025
From sonic journeys to inclusive design, LFA 2025 brought architecture to the streets—spotlighting lived experience and local agency in shaping London’s built environment.
by Bansari Paghdar Aug 09, 2025
Catering to the city’s evolving needs, the studio steers away from a "pastiche" approach to restore the 1873-built neoclassical complex for the EU Turia Campus.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 06, 2025
The Dubai exhibition brings street aesthetics into a white cube space to create site-specific installations that blur distinctions between the street and the gallery.
by Aarthi Mohan Aug 05, 2025
French landscape collective TER’s installation at the Potager du Roi coalesced architecture and environmental data, making sensors like heat, water and wind part of the experience.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 31, 2025
A documentary film by Thomas Furhapter highlights the banal, near liminal spaces composing one of many integration facilities providing courses for the integration of refugee groups into Austrian society.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 18, 2025
STIR speaks to the interdisciplinary studio’s founders, Florian Heinzelmann and Daliana Suryawinata, on their vision for the small-scale cultural interventions in Indonesia.
by Aarthi Mohan Jul 16, 2025
Through 23 spatial and urban interventions, the tenth edition of this annual architecture festival brought the discipline closer to the rhythms of daily life.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
by Anushka Sharma Jun 18, 2025
The Mumbai-based architecture and design practice redesigns a home in Lonavala, introducing a contrasting steel expansion that dialogues with the house’s original essence.
by Jincy Iype Jun 13, 2025
STIR speaks to Elizabeth Diller and David Allin of DS+R, and Tim Reeve of V&A, on the accessible, custodial and generous nature of the new V&A Storehouse in London.
by Jincy Iype Jun 09, 2025
Under the title Design and the Invisible, GDF at the London Design Biennale 2025 unveils how unseen forces and radical ideas shape the future of design.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 26, 2025
Part of a larger scheme for upgrading facilities at the premiere tech institute in Hyderabad, Christopher Benninger’s design clusters lecture halls around a central circulation spine.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 22, 2025
STIR interviews the principal of People’s Architecture Office, a Chinese architecture studio, about their conception of a system for revitalisation through prefabrication.
by Aarthi Mohan May 19, 2025
The cemetery's landscape is transformed with the addition of the towering mausoleum, a 100 feet-tall landmark merging functionality, history and sustainability for a modern era.
by Anushka Sharma May 09, 2025
The LFA 2025, themed Voices, with an expansive programme of exhibitions, workshops, talks and more, challenges visitors to listen closely to the perspectives that shape urban life.
by Almas Sadique Apr 25, 2025
In conversation with STIR, Dominique Petit-Frère, co-founder of Limbo Accra, discusses the studio’s overarching motivations, ethos, intent and disparate outputs.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 24, 2025
This travelling exhibition, on view at Travancore Palace, presents works by artists who centre feminism to speak out against injustices against minority communities.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 21, 2025
Sodomka Sodomková Architekti transforms a dilapidated railway warehouse into a hybrid public space, integrating reused shipping containers for a contextual belonging.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 16, 2025
With immersive programming and a striking modular design, the resort lends commentary on China’s dichotomous but hedonistic embrace of mega structures and simulated worlds.
by STIRworld Apr 14, 2025
Led by OMA’s David Gianotten, the proposal to renovate Tirana's chief stadium and its vicinity features flexible urban spaces and programmes, along with structural and facial upgrades.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 14, 2025
The New York-based studio's urban design scheme for an industrial neighbourhood in Nashville repurposes an existing building on site, creating office and commercial spaces.
by Aarthi Mohan Apr 08, 2025
RK Collective, a Sydney-based practice, transforms protest into presence, with a material born of grief, resistance and resilience through quiet design.
by Simran Gandhi Apr 02, 2025
The hotel architecture features an intimate courtyard in the heart of Jingdezhen, preserving the relics of a historic warehouse and a network of age-old camphor trees.
by Deeksha Nath Apr 02, 2025
The artist’s first institutional solo show outside India, Remembering, at Serpentine North, reflects an illustrious six-decade career through large-scale paintings and intimate ink drawings.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 28, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Canadian studio Zenga Bros talks about skateboarding, design and community, showcasing furniture designs that transform into skating equipment.
by STIRworld Mar 24, 2025
STIR spotlights eight artists presented by galleries across the Asia-Pacific region at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 21, 2025
Surat-based Thumbimpressions conceives a learning and social innovation campus for an NGO in Bihar that employs and advocates for local materials and sustainable development.
by Akash Singh Mar 18, 2025
Retaining the weathered historical appeal of the abandoned winery, BDSD Boundless Design employs a sensitive approach to give the site functional efficiency.
by Aarthi Mohan Mar 14, 2025
Crafted with cross-laminated timber and geothermal systems, this lakeside retreat in Duchess County offers a vision of net-positive, low-impact living.
by Aarthi Mohan Mar 06, 2025
From cherry blossom festivals to public spaces, the Korean photographer uncovers the coexistence of personal escapes and shared human experiences in his recent book.
by Aarthi Mohan Feb 26, 2025
British architect Asif Khan's architectural vision for the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture anchors a space for creativity, critical thought and ecological reflection.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 21, 2025
STIR speaks with the filmmaker and artist duo about their ongoing project, which trains an unrelenting eye on the everyday life of the city and how people negotiate public spaces.
by Ranjana Dave Feb 21, 2025
Intersecting contexts and frames of reference become pieces of a puzzle for the five curators of ‘to carry’.
by STIRworld Feb 18, 2025
Located on the grounds of Aina Retreat in Hyderabad, India, the restrooms repurpose the legibility of small-scale interventions through material authenticity and contextual grounding.
by Simran Gandhi Feb 10, 2025
Selva & Maugin Architectes and urbanmakers conceive an architectural response that transforms a historic site into a model for sustainable living.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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