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Venice Biennale 2012: Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank HQ / Foster & Partners
© Nico Saieh From the architects:
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The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank was designed by Norman Foster in 1979. At the core of the project is the attempt to create a civic space, a piece of common ground for the city. Though the… -
Venice Biennale 2012: Five North American Architects / Kenneth Frampton
© Nico Saieh Almost two years ago, on November 13th 2010, I had the chance to attend to a very special seminar to celebrate the 80th birthday of Kenneth Frampton at Columbia’s GSAPP. During that intense day, five north american practices presented their…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Museum of Copying / FAT
© Nico Saieh The Museum of Copying, curated by British architect’s FAT, was one of my favorite exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. The subject of copy in architecture has always interested me, in relation to how the series of copies in the form…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Ukraine Pavilion
© Nico Saieh Curated by Alexander Ponomarev and Olilga Milentiy, the Ukraine Pavilion presents mobile museums projects under the concept of “Mirage Architecture”. The exhibition focuses on a conceptual design for a Museum of Contemporary Arts in the Antarctic.
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Venice Biennale 2012: VOID / Rintala Eggertsson Architects
© Rintala Eggertsson Architects In Western thinking the notion of void, or emptiness is a usually considered a negative state of affairs, absence or lack of something. As an existential term emptiness, coupled with our contemporary condition with unforeseen wealth, is associated with the…
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Venice Biennale 2012: SPAINLab / Spain Pavilion
© Nico Saieh During the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale opening, we had the chance to interview Débora Mesa, curator of the Spain Pavilion together with Antón García-Abril, partners at Ensamble Studio.
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Venice Biennale 2012: GREENHOUSE TALK interviews leading architects
Screen Shot As we announced earlier, Pritzker Prize Laureate Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture (China), Rahul Mehrotra of RMA architects (India) and Francine Houben… of Mecanoo (The Netherlands) participated in GREENHOUSE TALK at the 2012 Venice Biennale. The informal discussion focused on the
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Venice Biennale 2012: O’Donnell + Tuomey
© Nico Saieh Vessel is a site-specific response to the theme of Common Ground – a wooden structure, composed of a stacked planks, that works in conversation with the layered brick construction of the Arsenale. Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey… have created a
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Venice Biennale 2012: Thailand Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The Thailand Pavilion, titled “Common Collage”, presents 100 ideas that can provide people with a common ground. The exhibition, curated by Apiradee Kasemsook, Nuttinee Karnchanarporn and Tonkao Panin, presents 40 boxes of equal size, volume and weight. The boxes were…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Facecity / C+S Architects
© Pino Musi C+S Architects‘ contribution, Facecity…, for the 2012 Venice Biennale, gives form to the idea of the curator, Fulvio Irace, of continuity in architecture. The exhibition reconsiders the architecture of Milan in the 50s and 60s, where architects, belonging to different
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Venice Biennale 2012: 13178 Moran Street
© Nico Saieh Grounds for Detroit – In this collaborative project, a distinct urban space – the mid-block of residential neighborhood – has been imported to Venice from Detroit. The installation is a recreation – and re-imagining – of a project undertaken in…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Álvaro Siza. Viagem sem Programa
© Andrea Piovesan Álvaro Siza. Viagem sem Programa, on display at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia through the duration of the Venice Biennale, narrates the most personal aspects of Álvaro Siza…’s work in architecture and his concept of life. In response to
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Venice Biennale 2012: Ruta del Peregrino
© Nico Saieh Each year, two million Mexican residents take part in the Ruta del Peregrino (Pilgrim’s Route) – a 117 kilometer pilgrimage through the mountains range of Jalisco that is centered around the adoration to the Virgin of Talpa. This religious voyage has been…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Feel the Ground. Wall House: One to One / Anupama Kundoo
© Nico Saieh ArchDaily is proud to present images from the 2012 Venice Biennale featuring the reconstruction of Anupama Kundoo’s Wall House. The installation is an opportunity for the architect to reassess intial strategies and continue to explore the experiments of the original…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Switzerland Pavilion
© Nico Saieh After being nominated to represent Switzerland at the 2012 architecture biennale in Venice, architect and university professor Miroslav Šik decided to join forces with two other swiss firms -Knapkiewicz + Fickert from Zurich and Miller & Maranta from Basel- with…
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Venice Biennale 2012: New Forms in Wood / Finland, Alvar Aalto Pavilion
© Nico Saieh To celebrate the reopening of the newly restored Alvar Aalto Pavilion, they are highlighting the work of young Finnish architects who have made use of wood in their recent works.
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Venice Biennale 2012: Unmediated Democracy Demands Unmediated Space / Croatia Pavilion
© Nico Saieh Space is a basic resource. Architecture has the capacity to essentially affect the overall management of space. As a result, it is incumbent upon it to be aware of the elementary politics inherent in every architectural activity.…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Team Chicago City Works
© Nico Saieh With Alexander Eisenschmidt as curator, five chicago-based practices presented together “Team Chicago: City Works”. In our age of extreme urbanization, says Eisenschmidt, “architects have been placed in the critical predicament that calls for a new attitude towards the city that highlights…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Aircraft Carrier / Israeli Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The Israeli pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Aircraft Carrier…, deals with the dramatic changes in Israeli architecture since 1973, and the American influences that made them possible.
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Curators Erez Ella, Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Dan Handel defined -
Venice Biennale 2012: Märkli Architekt
© Nico Saieh The term “common ground” claims something shared: relationships between people and things. This installation intends to awaken an appropriate sense within the soul of the visitor.…
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Venice Biennale 2012: Le quattro stagioni. L´architecttura del Made in Italy da Adriano Olivetti alla Green Economy / Italy Pavilion
© Nico Saieh The theme of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Common Ground, seems particularly apposite in describing the sense of rapport and relationship that is one of Italy’s primary characteristics in the development of cultural research and inquiry. This relationship has always…
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