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• Architects

  Peter Marino Architect

• Location

  Seoul, South Korea

• Area

  55000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Yunsuk Shim, Peter Marino

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• Architects

  Martín Aloras

• Location

  Jujuy 2351, S2000JHC Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

• Architect in Charge

  Martín Aloras

• Area

  1077.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Walter Salcedo

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At a press conference earlier today, the director of the 2016 Venice Biennale Alejandro Aravena revealed more details about his plans for this year’s event. Alongside announcing the proposal for Aravena’s own central exhibition titled “Reporting from the Front,” which will occupy all of the Biennale’s main venues, the Biennale announced the full list of participants in the 62 national pavilions, including 5 first-time participants: Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines, the Seychelles, and Yemen.

These participants will be tasked with responding to Aravena's prompt to highlight "architectures that despite the scarcity of means intensify what is available instead of complaining about what is missing." The national pavilions will highlight the social, environmental and economic challenges prevalent in each of the participating countries, and the ways in which architecture all over the world has been used to alleviate these problems. Read on for the full list of participants, and don't forget to check out all of our Venice Biennale coverage here.

• Architects

  Babau Bureau

• Location

  32100 Belluno BL, Italy

• Architect in Charge

  Stefano Tornieri, Massimo Triches

• Volume

  1106 mc

• Area

  1106.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Filippo La Duca

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Sou Fujimoto has been commissioned by Swedish clothing brand COS to design its installation for this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan. Taking place from April 12-17, the event will be the brand's fifth year participating.

"In this installation for COS, I envisage to make a forest of light," said Fujimoto. "A forest which consists of countless light cones made from spotlights above. These lights pulsate and constantly undergo transience of state and flow. People meander through this forest, as if lured by the charm of the light. Light and people interact with one another, its existence defining the transition of the other."

• Architects

  TEC - Taller EC

• Location

  Quito, Ecuador

• Area

  8500.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Sebastián Crespo

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Mecanoo architecten and MAYU architects+ have won a competition to design the new Tainan Public Library in Taiwan. Their winning design "represents the meeting of cultures, generations and histories," says the architects. It will feature an inverted stepped facade that houses reading rooms, special collections, study spaces, a children’s area, café, conference hall, a 200-seat auditorium, and public courtyards. 

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• Architects

  Architecture Open Form

• Location

  Laval, QC, Canada

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Adrien Williams

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• Architects

  Cubus

• Location

  Rúa da Ribeira Sacra, 27500 Chantada, Lugo, Spain

• Architect in Charge

  Estel Ortega Vázquez + David Pou van den Bossche

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Adrià Goula, Antonio Rodriguez, Estel Ortega

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The 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, directed this year by Alejandro Aravena, have revealed more information about the central exhibition and associated projects which will be on display at a press conference today in Venice. According to La Biennale, 'Reporting from the Front' will form one single show spanning the venues of the Arsenale and the Central Pavilion in the Giardini, featuring work from 88 participants from 37 countries. Of these, 50 will be presenting work for the first time and 33 are architects under the age of 40. "Reporting from the Front" will share work from Architects tackling issues relating to segregation, inequality, suburbia, sanitation, natural disasters, the housing shortage, migration, crime, traffic , waste, pollution, and community participation.

Detroit Resists has released a statement questioning the ambition of the US Pavilion’s “The Architectural Imagination” exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale. The exhibition consists of twelve teams of designers who will present newly speculative projects that can be applied not only to various sites in Detroit, but also to other cities around the world. Yet while the exhibition aims to understand Detroit’s political, social, economic, and environmental context so that “the power of architecture” can be of service to the community of Detroit, Detroit Resists’ statement claims that in the past this “architectural power” has been indifferent to the political context.

“This architectural power has been manifestly apparent in architecture’s recruitments against indigenous, impoverished, marginalized, and precarious communities across the globe, usually in the name of “development” or “modernization” in the second half of the 20th century,” reads the statement.

In 2000, in a trial held in London, the notorious British Holocaust denier David Irving sued an American historian and her publisher for libel. He posited that the Holocaust didn't really happen – was the planned and systematic murder of six million European Jews an elaborate hoax? The battle over the meaning of the architectural evidence took centre stage. Ultimately, forensic interpretation of the blueprints and architectural remains of Auschwitz became crucial in the defeat of Irving, in what remains to date the most decisive victory against Holocaust denial.

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• Architects

  NARTARCHITECTS

• Location

  Mátraszentimre, Galyatető, 3234 Hungary

• Architect in Charge

  Csaba Kovacs, Aron Vass-Eysen

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Courtesy of NARTARCHITECTS

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