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

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

Itten + Brechbühl   Switzerland   With sustainability in mind, this timber building rose to be easily dismantled after ten years of use. The construction of Forum UZH, a Zurich training and research center designed by Herzog & de Meuron, required taking down four existing sports

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The lack of facilities and trees had turned Parco dei Salici into a run-down place in disuse. Communication with the neighbors’ association now in charge of its management was an essential part in the redevelopment of the space, where now all so

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Though it is a pleasant green space, Parco XXII Aprile is in Crocetta, one of the most conflictive neighborhoods in Modena. This intervention aims to redefine small new spaces for leisure and for reunion that can gradually reactivate social life in t

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   Despite being one of the most populated neighborhoods in the city, Commenda Est only has one plaza. The project exploits the potential of several empty spaces to join them and create a quality plaza at the service of the area’s multiple realities...

G124 Renzo Piano   Italy   The Affectivity and Maternity Module is a gathering space that replaces the conventional visiting rooms, anodyne and surveilled, for female inmates. This temporary construction of a family unit recreates the domestic dimension to favor future social

Lucas y Hernández-Gil   Spain   Near the San Juan reservoir in the mountains of Madrid stands Casa Montesa, a work of the firm headed by Cristina Domínguez Lucas and Fernando Hernández-Gil. Beside this small bungalow, in the garden, the Madrid practice has raised a flexible, multip

Ecosistema urbano   United States   Extreme heat is not only endangering the habitat of an infinite number of species, but also altering the very way we use our cities, a problem which disproportionally affects low-income communities. In the spirit of working toward a solution, a modul

Max Otto Zitzelsberger    Germany   This is a German research project involving the wooden construction, undertaken by the architect and professor Max Otto Zitzelsberger in collaboration with students at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). It stands on the grounds of an ope

Álvaro Siza Carlos Castanheira   Taiwan   This pavilion is part of an overall redevelopment of the Taifong Golf Course in Changhua County, Taiwan, which includes several projects by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira. Close to Casa Siza, the first construction completed within the operation,

José Rodríguez Lucena Carlos Montes González   Spain   On view through 14 October at Plaza del Rey in San Fernando is the pavilion La Sal, a work of the architects José Rodríguez Lucena and Carlos Montes González. After ¡Qué faena(r)!, the project carried out for the city of Vigo (Pontevedra), San Fernan

Manuel Bouzas   Italy   As part of the third Festival des Cabanes, held at Villa Medici in Rome, the temporary pavilion Cabane 7L gives visitors the chance to enjoy views of the Renaissance gardens through the treetops. Raised entirely with firwood boasting sustainability c

JSa   Mexico   The firm JSa – Aisha Ballesteros, Benedikt Fahlbusch, Javier Sánchez – has turned a deteriorated forest into an urban park that features an ecotechnologies center for Xalapa-Enríquez, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Under the auspices o

Óscar Cruz García Pablo Paradinas Sastre   Spain   Visitable through 14 July at Vigo’s Porta do Sol is the temporary pavilion ¡Qué faena(r)! (What a Task!), the design for which won the ideas competition for the third TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, organized under the auspices of Spain’s Housing a

Galaxy Arch   China   In the industrial park of the Chinese city of Suzhou, around Jinji Lake, stand five public pavilion, five of which are newly buildt and the rest are renovated. An outcome of a 2022 competition, the two-floor wooden cabin – a work of the firm Shanghái

Mass Studies   United Kingdom   The Serpentine Gallery’s 23rd summer pavilion at Kensington Gardens in London will be visitable from 7 June to 27 October. Designed by the Korean architect Minsuk Cho of the firm Mass Studies, it is inspired by vernacular wood architecture in his cou

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

Le Corbusier, pavilion in Zurich.

The combination of biomimetics, computer design, and robotic construction continues to bear fruit, waiting for the moment that it becomes a more or less feasible model to apply in everyday architecture. This is demonstrated by the two pavilions that

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