Lina Ghotmeh   Italy   Echoing the ruins of Beirut invaded by nature, the tower symbolizes the resilient and optimistic emergence of life with large openings that reveal lush gardens, bringing nature into the heart of the dwellings and into the city...

Tadao Ando   Italy   After winning the international competition for the Fondation François Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, this project had to be abandoned due to a series of problems. Shortly after, the studio received a new commission from the client in Veni

MAIO   Italy   The intervention carried out in the Spanish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale plays upon an error, and the result is an installation of minimalist roots, on a 1:1 scale. The error is that the pavilion was built slightly out of line with respect to

David Chipperfield   Italy   Built on the north side of Piazza de San Marco, one of the most recognizable squares in the world, the Procuratie Vecchie was designed by the architects Mauro Codussi, Bartolomeo Bon and Jacopo Sansovino in the first half of the 16th century, under t

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture Reinier de Graaf   Exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at Matadero Madrid, the visual manifesto challenges conventional design of healthcare facilities, and reflects on the evolution of this typology and on the technical upgrades it will require in the future...

Flores & Prats   Italy   The installation for the 2018 Biennale worked with the idea of liquid light to reproduce, on a 1:1 scale, a skylight from Sala Beckett in Barcelona (an old co-op building converted into a theater), and to recreate the air of the original space with l

Alberto Campo Baeza   Italy   Heaven on Earth. That is how I have more than once described my intention when designing the houses I have built, every single one of them. This is the latest. All the more reason to make it a piece of Heaven on Earth. In Venice. It is an honor for a

Louisa Hutton Matthias Sauerbruch Sauerbruch Hutton   Italy   The new cultural district includes the complete metamorphosis of a 17th-century convent and the construction of a museum on the cultural inheritance of the 20th century. The main spatial strategy for the new museum was to create a footpath that trave

Vo Trong Nghia Architects   Italy   Freespace, the optimistic motto chosen for the 16th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – Grafton Architects –, defends that architecture can be generous and functional at the same time. In line

David Chipperfield   Italy   For the first time in 500 years, a large part of the Procuratie Vecchie will be open to the public thanks to a series of interventions: restoring the first and second floors, reorganizing accessibility, and renewing the entrance to the third floor le

Eduardo Souto de Moura   Italy   The Holy See decided to participate for the first time in the Venice Architecture Biennale, in the 16th edition of the exhibition, with a unique proposal. The Holy See Pavilion consists of ten small chapels built in the woods of San Giorgio Maggiore

Foster + Partners   Italy   The Holy See is featured for the first time at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with a unique proposal curated by Francesco Dal Co. Consisting of ten chapels, the concept takes inspiration from the chapel Erik Gunnar Asplund built in Stockholm’s Woo

Italy   The Vatican is participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale, for the first time ever, with a proposal that is an updating of the old theme of religious propaganda, using a series of ten chapels designed by signature architects that are scattered

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Italy   This is a series of exteriors within other exteriors. A labyrinthic construction that explores that understated tension between practical needs and the subjective measurements of an architectural space. The floor plan consists of the informal and cap

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   Italy   Fulvio Irace “I think it is very possible that just as you cannot be critical of oxygen, you cannot be critical of shopping. Shopping for me is another word for modernization.” In 2001, when Rem Koolhaas disseminated his manifesto on shopping as “the

Norman Foster   Italy   On view at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, in the Arsenale, is The Norman Foster Foundation’s first full-scale prototype of a hangar for drones, conceived for use in distributing medical supplies in Africa. The vaulted pavilion is built with t

Mario Cucinella Architects   Italy   The Bologna firm of Mario Cucinella built this kindergarten in Guastalla, in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. Replacing two schools that were damaged in the earthquake the shook the zone in 2012, the building is expressly designed to stimulate

Cappai + Segantini architects   Italy   Besides providing new offices for the Law Courts of the city of Venice, the building becomes an urban infrastructure in freeing up ground area and giving it up to the street.

Tadao Ando   Italy   Surrounded by important historical buildings, among which the nearby Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, the old customs building was raised in the 17th century by the architect Giuseppe Benoni at the entrance of the Grand Canal of Venice, on a tri

David Chipperfield   Italy   The San Michele Cemetery, Venice’s principal cemetery, is located on an island between Venice and Murano. The project is the development and extension of the island, a historic site that replaced the city’s ancient cemetery when, at the beginning of

Carlos Ferrater   Italy   El proyecto forma parte de un nuevo complejo residencial y comercial que pretende dotar a esta área de una identidad propia. El edificio se plantea como una serie de espacios intermedios entrelazados en torno a un núcleo central de comunicaciones de

Cino Zucchi   Italy   Beyond the Grand Canal, toward the edges of the lake, is an everyday, domestic Venice removed from the mask of a city-museum that tourism, literature and movies have recreated with obstination. In the Giudecca quarter, the old grounds of the company

With the title ‘The Milk of Dreams,’ the curator Cecilia Alemani has put together an exhibition in which almost all the participants are women.

After six months of renovating works, Palazzo Grassi reopens to the public on September 5th with ‘Hypervenezia’, an exhibition specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. It presents for t

Fernanda Canales   The Venice Architecture Biennale, perhaps the most important architectural celebration in the world, focuses this year on the consequences of construction. It tries to encompass buildings and destruction in equal measure, and also the needs of commun

The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale was inaugurated on 22 May and will stay open through 21 November, presenting novel proposals for the architectural field. The theme is “How will we live together?” and the curator, Hashim Sarkis, invites architec

“How will we live together?” This is the title of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens with 61 participating countries. The motto reflects a turn toward social, even political concerns that has been taking place in the biennial since ov

The architect, designer, scenographer, artist, and critic Achilllina di Enrico Bo (1914-1992), known as Lina, has been recognized with the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in memoriam of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, which will b

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We are tourists, and pretend being travelers. Mass tourism used to be depicted with a cruise ship overwhelming the delicate scale of Venetian palazzos, but today the best representation of excess is the exceptional photograph of a jam on the Everest.

Richard Ingersoll   The theme of the kaleidoscopic Biennale d’Arte of 2019, curated by Ralph Rugoff, was denouncement of the contemporary political situation.

Instagram   “Setting out my stall at the Venice Biennale. Despite being the largest and most prestigious art event in the world, for some reason I’ve never been invited.”...

La Biennale di Venezia   The Board of La Biennale di Venezia, upon the recommendation of President Paolo Baratta, appointed Hashim Sarkis as Director of the Architecture Sector, with the specific task of curating the 17th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in 2

Cynthia Davidson   When  When Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi set in motion the Holy See’s first entry in the International Venice Architec-ture Biennale, which opened on 26 May 2018, he was building on the Vatican’s decades-old program to establish new alliances betwe

Richard Ingersoll   The optimistic view of ‘Freespace’, a concept promoted by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, better known as Grafton Architects and this year’s Biennale curators, is that architecture can be generous while serving utilitarian functions. Leon Battis

At the Venice Architecture Biennale, Eduardo Souto de Moura was awarded the Golden Lion for best participant in the ‘Freespace’ exhibition curated by Shelley and McNamara of Grafton Architects, where he has juxtaposed two aerial photographs that show

The Vatican is participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale, for the first time ever, with a proposal that is an updating of the old theme of religious propaganda, using a series of ten chapels designed by signature architects that are scattered

Kenneth Frampton (London, 1930) was in May awarded the Golden Lion of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. In the words of the curators, the British historian and architect represents the “humanistic component” of “the various ‘movements’ and trend

After ten years of work, the most complex and ambitious project up to date by Damien Hirst (Bristol, 1965) will be on view, until mid-December this year, at the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection: Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. Asi

In the context of the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, the curators of ‘Unfinished’ engage in conversation about its exhibition, winner of the Golden Lion.

Richard Ingersoll   A vocation of service and a political slant have together set the tone of Alejandro Aravena’s Biennale, where hardly any stars have participated.

“The work is dedicated to our people, to all those who have taught us so much, to my masters: master mason, master painter, master carpenter, and master builder; we owe it to them.” These words of Solano Benítez sum up the spirit of the installation

The title, ‘Unfinished,’ and its subject, the profession in the wake of the crisis, seemed to signal yet another critical or even masochistic look at the situation in which Spanish architecture has been immersed. Fortunately this has not been the cas

The inauguration of the fifteenth Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, took place last 28 May. It was no simple matter to surf in the wake of the previous edition – not in vain dubbed ‘Koolhaas’s Biennale’

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