A factory turned workspace in Ahmedabad for IKSOI reveals uncanny inversions
Sep 16, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 16, 2025
Amidst a lingering industrial past, this workspace — featuring pink lime plaster walls and playful gargoyles — is a living tribute to IKSOI's co-founder, late architect Dhawal Mistry.
Max Lamb and Potato Head turn Bali's trash into objects of purpose with WASTED 001
Sep 15, 2025by Anushka Sharma Sep 15, 2025
Turning discarded plastic, glass, textiles and bamboo into functional objects, the collection blends circular design with local craft to reimagine waste as a material of the future.
Global Design Forum 2025 proposes critical practices of Design At/From The Seams
Sep 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 11, 2025
In partnership with STIR, this year’s programme for the Global Design Forum at LDF examines radical interdependence and multiplicities that design create.
The 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture winners redefine community and resilience
Sep 02, 2025by 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.

STIRpad: a launch pad for your new
by Amit Gupta Jul 01, 2021
Explore STIRpad, our brand NEW digital launch pad to help creators, studios, galleries and manufacturers share and demonstrate their NEW collections, exhibitions, special projects, new designs, collaborations, milestones and much more...
The in-between city: Alternative urban dispositions at Venice Architecture Biennale
Sep 12, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 12, 2025
For Intelligens, participations by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao explore how infrastructure and development prerogatives in Asian megacities are (re)produced for global perceptions.
Eco-fables, mythmaking and probing the primal in Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz
Sep 05, 2025by Anmol Ahuja Sep 05, 2025
The film by Francesca Molteni and Mattia Colombo chronicles the celebrated architect’s legacy and pioneership in green architecture through four global projects and exclusive interviews.
The Bihar Museum Biennale: Whose stories shape a biennale of museums?
Sep 04, 2025by Vasudhaa Narayanan Sep 04, 2025
In its drive to position museums as instruments of cultural diplomacy, competing histories and fragile resistances surface at the Bihar Museum Biennale.

Making writing forms and forms of writing intelligible with Graphic Languages
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 28, 2025
A compilation of writing systems and visual communication styles, edited by Oliver Häusle, explores the possibilities, resonances and unique qualities of the tools we use to write.Dissecting reuse and transitional urban futures with Bellastock
Sep 10, 2025by Anushka Sharma Sep 10, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Esther Rejai and Hugo Topalov discuss the cooperative's annual festival, the value of reuse in construction and their low-tech approaches to architecture.
Exhibit Columbus: a time and a place to see the city as a living museum
Aug 30, 2025by 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.
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.

Asunción Molinos Gordo looks to the past to interpret the future
Aug 21, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 21, 2025

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