P + S Estudio de Arquitectura   France   The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue with the landscape. Prominent among them is Compluvium, a

Nikken Sekkei   Japan   Each panel is really a sandwich composed of two flat surfaces of four layers each, held up by an inner metal substructure onto which they are simply screwed to facilitate future dismantling and reuse...

Atelier Brückner   Japan   From the roof’s intricate structure to the signage, the building is based on the geometrical patterns of a technique of scratching plaster – ganch carving – used in Central Asia to decorate palaces and temples...

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A work of AMO, the exhibition design offers a journey through twelve locations along the Qatari coast, around a cinema lined with curtains that are an abstract recreation of the experience of taking shelter in a tent...

Lina Ghotmeh   Japan   Like the hull of a dhow – a type of boat of Arabian origin – the system of timber frames encloses a hold where a central atrium organizes the visitor and service areas, separated by semi-transparent textiles...

interplay   Japan   The snail-like geometry of the design allows a progression in the visitor’s experience of the interior, where a fluid public space culminates in an introspective concert hall located at the heart of the pavilion...

Foster + Partners   Japan   The cluttered mesh of streets characteristic of Arabian cities has been reproduced by means of a computer model in order to optimize bioclimatic protection...

Apropos Architects   Japan   While the central space for events is lit by a round skylight overhead, integrated into the passable roof, the uninterrupted gallery provides large surfaces for the display of Bohemian glass art...

AMDL   Japan   The timber used in the structure of portal frames came from cypress forests in the vicinity, treated with a kind of tar that mixes persimmon pulp with pine charcoal to protect the material and give it a distinctive grayish tone...

Manuel Herz   Japan   In front of an auxiliary block clad in wood is a cluster of globes formed by two-layered thermoplastic pillows, which are inflated to ensure normal pressure inside and avoid the need for airlocks...

RAU Architects   Japan   The dome-like hall is enclosed with a skin of undulating metal louvers, which together cover exactly 425 meters, in commemoration of the 425 years of trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan...

Coldefy Carlo Ratti   Japan   Like a grand opéra, the exhibition is divided into acts: the ceremonious entrance is followed by a sequence of thematic spaces that look over the ground floor, to which one returns after an interlude in the rear garden...

Extudio ENORME Studio Smart and Green Design   Japan   From the porticoed structure of red cedarwood to the colored ceramic pieces of the facade and interior finishes, all the materials are integrated into a circular system, collapsible and reusable. Like a dive into deep waters, a visitor ramp clad in d

Trahan Architects   United States   Luther George Park – in the heart of Springdale, beside Spring Creek – is a new public space created by the New Orleans architecture office of Trey Trahan, in collaboration with Landscape Architects Spackman Mossop Michaels. Along the park’s central

Quinta Fachada | Arquitectura Consciente   Ecuador   Located in a residential area of Ibarra, the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Imbabura, this project was envisioned as an extension of the context. A respectful dialogue was established between the building and the landscape, incorporating susta

GN Architects   China   The elderly of Chaishan Island still fondly remember that its rugged coast – now only visited by the occasional ferry – was up to not long ago a thriving port, where arriving sailors were welcomed under the trees that stood at the entrance into the v

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   China   The Jinji Lake Pavilion designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – has opened. This is one of the eleven permanent pavilions forming a 13-kilometer promenade around Suzhou’s waterfront. The 1,200-square-meter building presents four interconnected parts

Al Borde   United Arab Emirates   Designed for 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennial, themed ‘The Beauty of Impermance,’ this project transformed the Al Qasimiyah school of the Emirate city into one of the event’s venues. The concept centers on creating a threshold that welcomes people

Van Belle & Medina   Belgium   Covering 24 hectares, The Biomist in the city of Genk, in the Belgian province of Limburg, is a complex devoted to biocultural diversity that includes the studio of artist Koen Vanmechelen and the Cosmopolitan Cultural Park, where the LlabOvo pavilio

Estudio Flume   Brazil   In Sumaúma Village, 35 kilometers from the nearest urban core, the municipality of Vitória do Mearim, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil, is this workspace for babassu coconut harvesters, a project of Estudio Flume, the São Paulo practice of Noelia Mon

Sou Fujimoto Architects   France   This welcoming center is part of the metamorphosis of the Ruinart champagne house in Reims. Sou Fujimoto’s design draws inspiration from the sparkling bubbles of champagne. Built with stone and wood, the pavilion presents gentle curves in the walls a

HEMAA   Mexico   Fifteen minutes from Santa Fe (Mexico City), this pavilion is nestled within the Reserva Santa Fe real-estate development. Right by a lake immersed in the Otomí-Mexica forest, it seeks to be part of the natural surroundings, offering a shelter and ga

SHISUO Design Office   China   On an underused plot on one side of the Lu Xun Memorial Museum stands this pavilion that hosts a variety of cultural activities. The local firm SHISUO Design office – established by Sanif and Shangshan in 2023 – had to work on a limited budget and a

From 6 June to 26 October the Serpentine Pavilion of 2025 can be visited by the public in Kensington Gardens, London. A work of the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), this year’s pavilion is named

The winners of the fourth edition of the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, have been announced. The pavilion Espartal will be shown at Casa Med

The Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed this year’s temporary pavilion for the Serpentine, London, marking twenty-five years since the London gallery’s first Serpentine Pavilion, which Zaha Hadid designed. Titled ‘A Capsule in Time,’ this

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

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

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 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

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

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

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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the ephemeral Glasraum of the Werkbund’s 1927 exhibition in Stuttgart, the dynamic Wrightian space flows between glazed walls that reconcile the expressionist reflections with the transparency of the Sachlichkeit to expose universal truths at the

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

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

vimeo.com   The installation built by the French architect Aurelien Chen in Rizhao (China) is an abstract recreation of the traditional Chinese landscape. Two hundred perforated and illuminated stainless steel poles interspersed with flat canopies reflect the en

Tributes to artists tend to be post mortem. A case in point is Le Corbusier and his pavilion in Zurich, designed as a Maison de l’Homme in which to display the collection of the gallerist Heidi Weber, but which after opening in 1967, two years after

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