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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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K Studio’s extension to the Dexamenes Hotel in Greece softens its industrial past
Apr 01, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 01, 2026
The eight new sea-view terrace suites within the wine-factory-turned-hotel offer a warm retreat ‘floating’ on a pared down structural frame overlooking the Ionian Sea.
CCD Tokyo Creative Center wraps Japanese spatial logic in a high-tech shell
Mar 31, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 31, 2026
The luxury hospitality designers synthesise an eastern architectural spirit clad in a structurally expressive shell, launching their Tokyo office as a material and cultural archive.
In which ‘those ones’ don’t cut it anymore: Reflections on Pradip Krishen’s 1989 film
Mar 27, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 27, 2026
Following the Film Heritage Foundation's restoration of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones, STIR probes the hopes and quirks of 70s architecture students and their relevance today.
OMA’s New Museum expansion in New York negotiates memory, identity and authorship
Mar 26, 2026by Sunena V Maju Mar 26, 2026
The highly anticipated expansion by OMA, reconfiguring the museum alongside SANAA's original building, is a statement unto urban image, thresholds and uneasy coexistence.
OMA’s Mushroom Pavilion is a sanctum for community, congregation and cultivation
Mar 23, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 23, 2026
A domed concrete roof harbours radial stepped seating to cultivate fungi and foster growth and learning among the Escondido communities at Fundación Casa Wabi, Mexico.
The Lab Saigon restores an old French villa in Vietnam into a modern matcha tea bar
Mar 21, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 21, 2026
Street-style seating, warm bespoke lighting and accents of vibrant green create a haven for matcha lovers in this century-old heritage structure.
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.
Housing with brick: The material ethics and socialities of living together
Mar 18, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 18, 2026
The Living together category of the BRICK AWARD 26 considers urban residential developments and the pivotal role brick plays in shaping aesthetics, cost and material efficiency.
AACM’s Kinder Rain draws on collective memory to create a village-like school
Mar 17, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 17, 2026
Adapting the form of vernacular farmer huts of Veneto, Italy, AACM designs a kindergarten where children experience education as a collective adventure.
The Shiv Nadar School by Vastushilpa Sangath positions porosity as pedagogy
Mar 16, 2026by Jincy Iype Mar 16, 2026
A banana-leaf inspired canopy shelters this school campus in Chennai, wherein porous planning and climate-responsive design rethink the educational built typology.
2026 Pritzker Laureate Smiljan Radić Clarke carries the tensions of our times in his work
Mar 13, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Mar 13, 2026
The Chilean architect founded his Santiago-based practice in 1995, consciously avoiding a signature architectural identity, adhering to first principles and site-specificity.
Framing stillness and the uncanny with Yorgos Lanthimos
Mar 13, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2026
A collection of over 180 photographs by the celebrated filmmaker at Onassis Stegi, staged as a ‘rare artistic event’, prompts an enquiry into film, space, framing and the maker’s eye.
Norway’s rebuilt government quarter asserts an architecture of openness and democracy
Mar 12, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 12, 2026
Nordic Office of Architecture, with Haptic Architects, reimagine the site of the 2011 terror attacks as a porous civic district shaped by architecture, landscape and art.
This Hyderabad school employs the built environment as a pedagogical instrument
Mar 11, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Mar 11, 2026
Conceived by Pentaspace Design Studio, this cuboidal volume of exposed concrete and glass pegs movement as integral to the learning experience.
At As Safiyyah Museum & Park, X Architects mediate between reverence and commerce
Mar 07, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 07, 2026
Designed at the threshold of cultural preservation and rapid urban growth, the museum references geology, history and cosmology to create a global tourist destination in Medina.
Meeting Bruce Goff: Objects, imagination and an unconventional practice
Mar 05, 2026by Sunena V Maju Mar 05, 2026
At the Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Goff: Material Worlds moves beyond architecture to reveal the curiosity and cultural influences that shaped the American architect’s work.
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’.
The Factory Canteen by Studio Dot backs local sourcing and climate resilience
Mar 03, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 03, 2026
Timber from shipyards, wool from local shepherds and indigenous knowledge systems together create the new dining space for Agrocel Industries in the White Desert of India.
Haptic Architects to clad the Shanghai Yacht Club Pavilion in a skin of ceramic batons
Feb 28, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 28, 2026
The primary attraction of the Yangtze River Delta International Sailing Hub is envisioned to feature a sloped silhouette inspired by the traditional architecture of Chinese pagodas.
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.
A Very Small 24-hour Bookstore is a reader’s sanctuary and a community lighthouse
Feb 26, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Feb 26, 2026
SZ Architects convert a prison guard tower into an all-hours bookstore, introducing a new rhythm into the neighbourhood as a creative hotspot.
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.
Amoako Boafo and Glenn DeRoche on collaboration and building spaces for art
Feb 24, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 24, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist and architect about their evolving collaboration and architecture as an extension of Boafo’s practice across a four-part exhibition series.
Hugh Broughton's Discovery Building probes context, response and care in Antarctica
Feb 23, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 23, 2026
Located within Rothera Research Station, the UK’s largest research facility on the continent, the new building consolidates several functions under a resilient envelope.
Author’s Room Hotel reinterprets Lingnan arcades into a contemporary cultural hub
Feb 21, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Feb 21, 2026
Designed by BLUE Architecture Studio, the hotel houses a bookstore, cafe and accommodation in a contemporary reinterpretation of Guangzhou’s traditional arcades.
From obsidian to architecture: Studio Ossidiana on transformation and memory
Feb 19, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Feb 19, 2026
In conversation with STIR, the practice reflects on ecology as a working condition and sharing authorship with human and non-human lives.
From burial ground to public landscape: Compartment S4’s Sensorium Park
Feb 18, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Feb 18, 2026
Compartment S4 transforms a neglected colonial-era cemetery into a public landscape shaped by ecological continuity, restraint and an open-ended experience.
3XN GXN’s New Sydney Fish Market softens thresholds between industry and public life
Feb 14, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Feb 14, 2026
A 20,000 sq m floating roof hosts workers, locals and visitors in a celebration of Sydney’s fishing industry and culture at the Southern Hemisphere’s largest fish market.
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.
The Aranyani Pavilion gestures at ecological renewal building on a colonial past
Feb 07, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 07, 2026
The inaugural Aranyani Pavilion in New Delhi, Sacred Nature, features a spiral walkthrough composed of a canopy of indigenous plant species in contrast with invasive lantana wood.
Spatialising absence, silence and resistance in Hajra Waheed’s Hum II at Fragmentos
Feb 06, 2026by Andrea Zarza Canova Feb 06, 2026
Waheed’s archive of hummed songs of resistance reframes the experience of Doris Salcedo's counter-monument, bringing regeneration through sound to its ruins.
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.
ZMMA leads a contextually reflective transformation for the Poole Museum
Feb 03, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Feb 03, 2026
A guided visit to the extensively redeveloped complex yields an accessible, immersive museum experience spanning centuries with a distinct urban identity.
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.
Modernist spirit meets a slow-paced work culture at the 3dor Concepts office
Jan 27, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 27, 2026
A linear mass with large overhanging slabs embedded in a quiet greenscape, this office space in Kerala offers a seamless shift between personal and professional realms.
Interior reworking of a concession-era structure at Wuhan Banquet Jubilee Garden
Jan 26, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 26, 2026
LDH Design approaches cultural regeneration through interior architecture that prioritises use, proportion and spatial clarity in Wuhan, China.
Mumbai, transcribed: Inside the Jaquar Pavilion Park at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026
Jan 23, 2026by Jincy Iype Jan 23, 2026
The pavilions at the second edition of ADFF:STIR Mumbai responded to curator Aric Chen’s brief, Mumbai Transcripts, to become activated micro-sites of movement and reflection.
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.
English masonry and garden traditions corral LANZA atelier's Serpentine Pavilion
Jan 20, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Jan 20, 2026
For its landmark 25th commission, Mexico-city based LANZA atelier conceive the Serpentine Pavilion 2026, a serpentine, emanating from and abutting a sinuous brick wall.
DesignTO 2026 and the practice of belonging in contemporary design
Jan 19, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
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.
Programmed encounters and sporadic collisions at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026
Jan 16, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 16, 2026
Returning for its second edition, the festival featured an array of internationally acclaimed films, architectural pavilions, talks, workshops and eminent discourse at NCPA, Mumbai.
To 3D or not to 3D: The trials and travails of the medium in spatial storytelling for film
Jan 16, 2026by Anmol Ahuja, Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 16, 2026
Building on the screening of 3D films in the roster for ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026, the question of whether the medium offers true immersion into the worlds it depicts is considered.
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.
Pergola, a new civic landmark along the Nile, reclaims public space for local communities
Jan 14, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 14, 2026
CLUSTER, THISS Studio and Orient Productions transform a threatened green space in Cairo into a dynamic cultural venue built from recycled plastic waste.
Architectural Construction Kits 1890 – 1990 and the evolution of building play
Jan 13, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 13, 2026
Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum uncovers the political, cultural and inventive forces embodied in construction kits made of stone, wood and plastic.
Kraffer Garden transforms a former Baroque garden into a vivid community space
Jan 12, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 12, 2026
A collaboration between landscape architects Atelier Za Mák and architects Matěj Šebek architekti, the Czech project unfolds as a ‘living organism’.
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.
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