Fenwick Iribarren Architects   Serbia   The Spanish firm Fenwick Iribarren Architects (FIA) designed and developed the project presented by Serbia for the 2027 Belgrade Expo, and it has carried the day over the other bids to host the event, including that of the city of Málaga. The Expo wi

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   Open to the public from 9 June to 29 October is the temporary pavilion of the popular Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. For this summer the commission went to the Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980), who designed a round

Adjaye Associates   In the context of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, focused on Africa, the triangular pavilion of dark wood designed by David Adjaye takes its place just outside the Arsenale. Kwaeε means forest in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken by m

Burr Studio   Spain   A series of supporting elements formed by neutral infrastructures make up several spaces, both common and individual, which guarantee privacy and gathering for the artists without interfering with their creative process...

SOLAR Marta Jarabo   Spain   The intervention focuses on the vault of access to the building, where two parallelpipeds of the same dimension, placed horizontally and vertically, summon the spectator. In the remaining halls, the commented images are projected at real scale...

Studio Animal   Spain   The set design adapts to the constant changes taking place during the show. The lighting, the music, the contrast between colors, and the dynamism of the performers throughout the representation function as another element of the architecture...

Palma NULA.STUDIO   Spain   The stone-like appearance of the vinyl that shapes the volumes of the installation strikes a contrast with the lightness of its making: the large curtains levitate on a layer of the same crushed material to manifest how it is infinitely recyclable.

Estudio DIIR Hanghar   Spain   The proposal reflects the purpose of creating a space where folklore and contemporary life converge. The huge red canopy recreates a fair atmosphere and includes traditional elements that invite to imagine community stages...

Carmody Groarke   Germany   A cylindrical pavilion clad in folded aluminum sheets gives ancillary service to the world’s only theater found on the premises of a fully operating daily market of fresh food produce. Facing the brutalist hangar designed by Hermkes that now includes

Pierre Yovanovitch   Switzerland   The young Victor Hugo who in 1832 was forbidden to stage Le roi s’amuse under the pretext of lèse-majesté could not have imagined that twenty years later, people would be singing his verses set to music on the streets of Venice, London, and even Hava

Pedro Pitarch   Spain   Pedro Pitarch's firm designed the communal and lounge zones of the 42nd edition of ARCO, the contemporary art fair held at Madrid's IFEMA trade fair and exhibitions grounds, held this year from 22 to 26 February. For Pitarch, ARCOmadrid is envisioned

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Japan   After its successful run at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the traveling exhibition 'Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams' moves to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo. On view through 28 May, it is organized by a scenographic narrative de

Smiljan Radic Nicolás Schmidt   Chile   Located close to the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago, on Plaza Bulnes, this inflatable structure was the setting of the ceremony that kicked off the 23rd Chile Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, which took place from 14 to 22 January 2023 and ad

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Saudi Arabia   The firm OMA designed the scenography for the first edition of the Jeddah Biennale, which is being held within the Western Hajj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport, a work of Skidmore, Owings & Meriill (SOM) and winner of the 1983 Aga Kh

Equipo 01 / Jesús San Vicente   Spain   FITUR, the annual International Tourism Fair held at Madrid’s IFEMA trade exhibition premises, takes place this year from 18 to 22 January. The pavilion designed by Equipo 01 / Jesús San Vicente for Paradores Nacionales is getting the FITUR Best Stan

Egypt   The forms and materials of Orb, by the Spanish artist SpY, draw on mathematical and symbolic elements of ancient Egyptian culture. Its specular circular pieces reflect a fragmented environment. As SpY explains, “the installation’s rounded shape allud

P + S Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   As part of the first TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, this temporary pavilion made of sackcloth rises inside a scaffolding on the Plaza del Humilladero in Granada. P+S estudio de arquitectura (Francisco Javier Parada and Laura R. Salvador) built an

Martillo Neumático   In June in Bilbao, the Gau Zuria (White Night) festival featured 28 art installations that transformed the landscape of the Basque city. One was Cuerpo Gris (Gray Body), which took up the central garden of the Sacred Art Museum. The monumental site-s

Rizvi Hassan   Bangladesh   Rohingya Refugee Site Camp 18 – in Ukhia, in the Bangladeshi region of Chittagong – is the location of a facility in which members of different generations of this predominantly Muslim ethnic group of Myanmar – victims of genocidal violence on the pa

Izaskun Chinchilla   Italy   Anyone going to a house party knows that the interesting things often happen in the kitchen, not in the living room. This can easily be extrapolated to large events like the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, around which other events have ar

Anna & Eugeni Bach   The Catalan firm led by Anna Bach and Eugeni Bach was commissioned to design a stand for the EINA University School of Design and Art in the 31st Saló de l’Ensenyament – which promotes vocational training centers and services – at Fira de Barcelona.

Isla architects   Switzerland   The Mallorca firm isla architects (Marta Colón de Carvajal & Juan Palencia de Sarriá) won the bid to build the Basel Pavilion in the inaugural edition of Architekturwoche Basel, held from 9 to 15 May. It is located in the old Dreispitz industrial are

Adjaye Associates   Escocia   The aptly named Specere – ‘I am looking’, in Latin –, was promoted by the Forestry Commission and the Kielder Partnership as part of an ongoing Art & Architecture programme. It was created as a shelter for cyclists and as a superb viewpoint for visit

TAC! Is an annual festival of urban architecture that holds is second edition in Valencia (14 September – 16 October) and Donostia-San Sebastián (10 October – 13 November). Organized by Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

The 9th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 27 April to 2 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja, the annual event triggers refl

Tom Dixon, Marc Fornes, MAD architects, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, and OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture presented their installations at Milan Design Week, part of the 61st Salone del Mobile, open from 18 to 23 April 2023.

By eating, we digest territories. At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, due to open on 19 May, visitors to the Spanish Pavilion will have the opportunity to embark on a journey into architectures that feed us, fr

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

The Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded DRIFT in 2007. It is a studio that specializes in aerial installations, with a multi-disciplinary team working on experiential artistic creations. In collaboration with the companies Drone Sto

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea. A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensingt

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

Desert Sun   Brian Blueskye   Six artists have waited two years to feature their work at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the installations feature themes of gathering, the local environment, immigration and a nod to historic design. This year's mix of artists a

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take

The Economist   The 25m-high artificial hill at one end of Oxford Street dubbed the Marble Arch Mound opened in July. It was supposed to help lure shoppers freed from lockdown away from internet stores and back to Britain’s best-known shopping thoroughfare. But once

Expo 2020

The World Expo of 2020 has opened its doors. Already the web is flooded with night views of pavilions silhouetted against the excessive backdrop of Dubai. And proliferating alongside the myriad images are the words of a rhetoric which, while continui

Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international event ever to be held in the Middle East will until 31 March 2022 exhibit proposals for development that the participating nations have set up on the premises, in the spiri

A work of Brut Deluxe / Ben Busche + Miguel de Guzmán, Ring is a light installation created for Lichtfest Leipzig 21 and has been set up in the heart of the German city, at Burgplatz. The Leipzig Festival of Lights commemorates the demonstrations tha

AD   Pratyush Sarup   Alexander McQueen creative director Sarah Burton’s vision of the McQueen SS22 woman as a storm chaser required a lofty stage and with the show signalling the iconic British brand’s homecoming that was two decades in the making, the stakes were even h

The Economist   There are no politics at the Middle East’s first world’s fair. The setting is dramatic. Visitors passing from the harsh midday sun to the dim interior are met with slogans. “We believe that every human is part of the collective conscience,” reads a m

Expo 2020 officially opened in Dubai on 1 October. Like so many other premium celebrations, it is being held a year later than it was supposed to be, delayed by Covid-19. Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international e

The Expo in Dubai kicked off on 30 September with a ceremony, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March 2022. The event is expected to bring in some 25 million visitors. Video Map

The Italian fashion house Prada presented its SS 2022 Menswear collection in a show with a catwalk designed by OMA / AMO. An imagined summer escape ended in an open-air space where nature and artifact interact, with a meandering red tunnel that model

Artnet   Taylor Dafoe   Chicago artist Theaster Gates has been tapped to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the prestigious project. A spokesperson for Serpentine Gallery confirmed Gate’s commission for the pavil