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Extending the table: STIR in conversation with Koray Duman
Apr 02, 2026by Sunena V Maju Apr 02, 2026
An Eid dinner in New York becomes a lens into the Turkish American architect’s ideas of space, migration and community.
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A Tale of Tinted Courts, a layered unfolding of a mythological box
Mar 19, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Mar 19, 2026
Designed by New Delhi-based Architects Collaborative, the Noida home is inspired by the traditional Rajasthani Kavad, featuring an array of three monolithic volumes.
Babel by V Taller proffers a radial, arched response to its sensitive forested context
Mar 04, 2026by Jincy Iype Mar 04, 2026
Employing arches as motif and language, the hospitality complex in Tulum, finished in pink chukum stucco, is rooted in local ecology, built as ‘both refuge and ethical declaration’.
Habitario interrogates domestic spatial biases through speculative homemaking
Mar 02, 2026by Chahna Tank Mar 02, 2026
Conceived by Mexican architect Brenda Isabel Pérez, the research-driven board game draws on the writings of Mexican women authors to question gendered norms embedded in domestic life.
Kunaal Maniar invokes quiet luxury through an ecological sanctuary at Dua Villa
Feb 27, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Feb 27, 2026
Prioritising atmosphere over spectacle, the landscape design of this weekend home in Alibaugh is a lesson in restraint and subtle discoveries.
What a brick wants: Evaluating a focused material inquiry for private residences
Feb 25, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 25, 2026
Examining the shortlisted projects in the BRICK AWARD 26 category Feeling at home unravels the entanglements between contextuality, resourcefulness and craftsmanship in contemporary architecture.
We Design Studio’s Goa home is a materially layered retreat among salt pans
Feb 10, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 10, 2026
Described as the studio’s ‘first 100 per cent indigenous home’, the Salt Pan House articulates a deeply contextual narrative rooted in a familiar Indian domestic sensibility.
Taliesyn designs a weekend home shaped by site and sequence in rural Karnataka
Feb 04, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Feb 04, 2026
Using Mangalore tiles, hand-finished cement and local stone, Taliesyn’s House by the Grove responds directly to its terrain, climate and patterns of occupation.
Casa El Espino is a site-led residence in the dry landscape of Valle de Bravo
Feb 02, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Feb 02, 2026
Designed by Soler Orozco Arquitectos with DIRECCIÓN, the house responds directly to terrain, climate and light rather than to scenic imagery.
SPASM Design ruminates on 30 years of practice with a Two Point Perspective
Jan 21, 2026by Jincy Iype Jan 21, 2026
With STIR as programme partner, SPASM Design’s ‘wordless’ retrospective mapped intuition-led practice, material craft and 30 projects realised over 30 years.
Bridge House by Wallmakers utilises site constraints as generative design inputs
Jan 20, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 20, 2026
Located in a mountainous landscape of Karjat, Maharashtra, the giant cocoon-like home features a 100-feet-long suspension bridge, covered in thatch and mud.
Casa BP by Santiago Bertotti is a rural home shaped by Córdoba's terrain
Jan 17, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 17, 2026
A longitudinal residence in Córdoba follows the land’s gentle rise through monolithic mass, calibrated openings and native planting embedded within the Serrano terrain.
Paparazza Moderna by Lake Verea reveals the strife and desires that made modernism
Jan 15, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 15, 2026
Photographic chronicles by Mexico City-based Lake Verea—‘Frenemies’ and ‘Lovers’—aim to showcase the stories that make up modernist architecture and the designers behind it.
TiggColl’s Canvas Arthur House and the everyday organisation of student life
Jan 10, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 10, 2026
The 770-bed student residence in Wembley is structured around everyday routines, adaptable spaces, and a balance between shared activity and personal retreat.
Raw House by Order Matter is a retreat from excess amid dense Seoul
Dec 25, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 25, 2025
A meditation on spatial clarity, the mixed-use development prioritises exposed material finishes, minimal design and adaptable spaces.
The RIBA Asia Pacific Awards champion designing for people, place and planet
Dec 23, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 23, 2025
Spanning China, India, Singapore and Bangladesh, the winners of the inaugural regional outtake address urbanisation, sustainability and equity through contextual architecture.
Urava’s brick home in Kerala evokes a living narrative of belief, ecology and place
Dec 20, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 20, 2025
A meditation on material honesty and memory, Of Trees and Gods and Mud draws reverence from the local spiritual landscape, shaped by kaavus (sacred groves) .
OF. Studio’s Brutal Honesty residence in Argentina poses erosion as a design agent
Dec 17, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 17, 2025
Reimaging brutalist architecture, the house features tapered grey and earth-toned walls that embody the symbiosis between natural and built environments.
A hillside house in Quito by Al Borde becomes a prototype for equatorial living
Dec 01, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Dec 01, 2025
For Casa La Vicentina, the Ecuador-based practice turns raw eucalyptus and handmade bricks into a replicable model for resilient, low-impact construction in equatorial cities.
Studio Saransh builds MS House as a dialogue between concrete and canopy
Oct 29, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Oct 29, 2025
In this Ahmedabad home, brutalist geometries are textured and softened, allowing structure and landscape to merge into a single, lived environment.
Generosity and restraint define Fabian Wagner’s twin homes in Söcking
Oct 22, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Oct 22, 2025
A concrete column doubles as both a pragmatic and symbolic intervention in becoming the literal and emotional centre in these twin residences in Bavaria, Germany.
TOITO architekti turns an abandoned bunker in Slovakia into an experiential dwelling
Sep 23, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 23, 2025
The hauntingly beautiful Bunker B-S 10 features austere utilitarian interventions that complement its militarily redundant concrete shell.
The House for Five Women exercises adaptability for an architecture of care
Sep 22, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 22, 2025
Designed by Serbia and Switzerland-based studio TEN, the residential project prioritises openness of process to allow the building to transform with its residents.
Hradby Residence by OOOOX breathes new life into a medieval guardhouse
Sep 17, 2025by Anushka Sharma Sep 17, 2025
The Prague-based studio reimagines an old guardhouse with vaulted ceilings and painted beams into a modern, livable space with a medieval soul.
Inside RIBA's 2025 Stirling Prize shortlist: big, beautiful architecture, but rarely bold
Sep 11, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 11, 2025
With London at the heart of architectural enquiry again, the shortlist aims to tackle Britain's most pressing urban issues, but has a concerning geographic and functional concentration.
Songzhuang Z Museum: A Quartet of tiered terraces and a colour-shifting woven skin
Aug 27, 2025by Jincy Iype Aug 27, 2025
Neither concealed nor diminished, an incongruous structure is deconstructed into four ‘quartets’ by TEAM_BLDG, shaping China’s first contemporary rural art museum for weaving.
Bangkok Tokyo Architecture on challenging singular authorship through flexibility
Aug 22, 2025by 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.
Brutalism meets habitable art in Renesa's House Around the Oblique Column
Jul 26, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 26, 2025
The New Delhi-based studio crafts a sculptural residence in which raw materials, geometric precision and a slanted column transform the home into a living gallery.
Nina’s House: A 1970s home in London turns fossil fuel-free through a natural retrofit
Jul 21, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 21, 2025
Nina+Co and ROAR partner on the regenerative retrofitting of a South Tottenham house, prioritising performance over footprint.
Paulíny Hovorka Architects designs a brutalist Y-shaped haven in rural Slovakia
Jul 08, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 08, 2025
Rooted in Slovak culture, the Banánka House is an architectural narrative of family, culture and the seamless embrace of nature.
Hata Dome by Anastasiya Dudik evokes ‘a structure unearthed rather than built’
Jul 05, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jul 05, 2025
The dome house in the High Desert region of California brings forth a futuristic dreamscape set against the 1880s-themed town Pioneertown.
Modularity and an inner city charm inform Splinter Society’s tower of light
Jul 01, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jul 01, 2025
The Newburgh Light House in Melbourne’s Auburn village embodies a clean expression of modularity to compose an alternative to the area’s existing housing stock.
Reflections, reclamations: On glass, Edith Farnsworth & Almost Nothing by Nora Wendl
Jun 26, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot, Chahna Tank Jun 26, 2025
A new book by the architectural historian unravels Edith Farnsworth’s life, repositioning her story as central to the conception of a modernist icon, the Farnsworth House.
AMASA Estudio preserves the aesthetic and material memory of a Mexican home
Jun 24, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jun 24, 2025
Adorned in teal and grey insertions, Casa Sofia draws from the historic morphology of its 1940s-built shell to accommodate rental spaces and a new floor extension.
Symbiosis in conservation at SHROFFLEóN's House of Material and Character
Jun 18, 2025by 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.
Casa Mexicana chronicles the evolving morphology of Mexican homes
Jun 12, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jun 12, 2025
From austere retreats to luxury villas, this book by Edmund Sumner and Jonathan Bell offers a vivid exploration of the building art of Mexican homes.
Studio Sangath's recent residential design revels in the brutalist materiality of brick
Jun 10, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 10, 2025
The Alloa Hills weekend home, designed by the Ahmedabad-based studio, adopts a pavilion-like form to create a seamless connection between the house’s terracotta interiors and nature.
Vy Architecture Studio's Vaazh House: a mud sanctuary embracing nature and memory
Jun 04, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jun 04, 2025
Emblematic of a return to what is essential, this silent, seemingly breathing house by the Chennai-based studio blends traditional wisdom with contemporary simplicity.
AGE360 stands as a discernible, concrete exoskeleton tower in Curitiba’s Ecoville
May 31, 2025by Dhwani Shanghvi May 31, 2025
Architects Office and Triptyque Architecture’s housing tower in Brazil integrates a sculptural form and biophilic design, reshaping Ecoville’s skyline with elevated wellness amenities.
Vietnamese residence DB Horizon retains its spatial and sensorial memories
May 21, 2025by Bansari Paghdar May 21, 2025
Designed by SAL, the revived ancestral home is characterised by a metal structural system and wooden shutters, featuring communal spaces wrapped in a permeable envelope.
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