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McIlwrick Residences / B.E Architecture

June 15, 2015

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Architects: B.E Architecture
Area: 410 m²
Year: 2012

Chateau Margaux Winery / Foster + Partners

June 15, 2015

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Architects: Foster + Partners
Year: 2015
Manufacturers: panoramah!®

Old Mill Hotel Belgrade / Graft Architects

April 14, 2015

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Architects: GRAFT: Graft Architects
Year: 2014
Professionals: Finvest d.o.o., Michelle St. Jean Graphic Design, Strauss & Hillegaart Design, x

548 Stradbrook Condominiums / 5468796 Architecture

April 11, 2015

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Architects: 5468796 Architecture
Area: 9200 ft²
Year: 2014

Villa Além / Valerio Olgiati

April 01, 2015

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Architects: Valerio Olgiati
Year: 2014

YeNe House / designband YOAP architects

January 07, 2015

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Architects: designband YOAP architects
Area: 431 m²
Year: 2014
Professionals: Yelim, Qauntum

A' House / Wiel Arets Architects

January 05, 2015

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Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
Area: 136 m²
Year: 2014
Professionals: Tai Mikio Architect & Associates, LOW FAT structure Inc., EOS plus, Comodo, Oskomera Group BV, +1

One Central Park / Ateliers Jean Nouvel

September 25, 2014

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Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Brimat, Interpon, Junglefy, Tensile

Casa no Tempo / Aires Mateus + João and Andreia Rodrigues

September 16, 2014

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Architects: Aires Mateus, João and Andreia Rodrigues
Year: 2014

Infrastructure, Data and Progress: Ireland's Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

August 03, 2014

The Irish pavilion's response to the theme of the 2014 Venice Biennale captures the tumultuous history of the Ireland's past hundred years through ten infrastructural projects which highlight the country's progress. Ireland's relationship to the theme of "Absorbing Modernity" was colored by their independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s, with modernism and infrastructure seen as the way to leave this past behind. The pavilion examines the outcomes of this approach, with Ireland treated as "a launch-pad and testing ground" for everything from concrete infrastructure to data centers. Read the curators' take on their pavilion after the break.

Inside "Places of Power": Austria's Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

July 30, 2014

The 20th Century was a time of significant political unrest, seeing two World Wars and the 70-year rise and fall of a major superpower, the Soviet Union, among countless other conflicts. In some ways, "modernity" could be characterized by the rapid creation and crystallization of huge numbers of nation states since the outbreak of World War One a hundred years ago.

Reacting to the theme of "Absorbing Modernity" set for the national pavilions at this year's Venice Biennale, the curators of the Austrian pavilion chose to investigate the area where this political unrest most overlaps with architecture: the Parliament Buildings of countries around the world.

Read the curator's take on the pavilion after the break

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The Empowerment of Aesthetics: Denmark's Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

July 29, 2014

Denmark's exhibition for the 2014 Venice Biennale focuses on the country's history as a pioneer in the development of a welfare state, and the role that architecture, in connection with art, literature and science had in creating an aesthetic manifestation of this 'better life for all'. By exploring the output of a range of fields in connection to a wider social movement, Empowerment of Aesthetics comes to a fuller understanding of how modernity affected architecture in Denmark.

The Winery at VIK / Smiljan Radic

July 23, 2014

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Architects: Loreto Lyon, Smiljan Radic
Year: 2014
Manufacturers: Concret Doctor, European Windows, Nuprotec, Tecpro

Ideal/Real: The Argentine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

July 22, 2014

The Argentine pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale analyzes modernity in terms of the IDEAL and the REAL by looking at how the country has used “ideal” modern ideas to construct the reality of its cities.

The curators, Emilio Rivoira and Juan Fontana, structured the exhibit around eight periods, selecting cinema clips to represent the ideal and the real.

Enjoy photos from the pavilion and read the description from the curators after the break.

Rem Koolhaas' "Elements": Uncovering Architecture's Origins, Assuring Its Future

July 15, 2014

ArchDaily has been asking architects "What is Architecture?" for over 6 years. It's a question that few interviewees answer without hesitation or bristling. But after asking over 200 architects, we've noticed a pattern: even though many people start very similarly, the answers soon diverge in a way that demonstrates the promise of the profession. And no matter how architecture is defined, the strong majority of architects hold an underlying belief in its ability to influence.

When the ArchDaily team visited the Venice Biennale and entered the Central Pavilion of the Giardini, home to the Elements exhibition, we saw it as a dynamic, immersive, exhaustive response to the question "What is Architecture?" Visitors to the Biennale are introduced to architecture through its elements--the pieces, parts and fundamentals that comprise built structures around the globe.

When Koolhaas chose to focus on Elements, he produced a text (in both book and exhibition format) that gives us the tools to understand what architecture is and how is it has evolved (or stagnated). Even though he didn't invite people to show projects in the traditional sense, the AD editors saw a hopeful undertone to Elements -- it is a resource that can be revisited over and over again, one that will arm the current and future designers of our built world with the knowledge they'll need to address the issues they have yet to even confront.

After the break, see images of the exhibition and read Koolhaas' curatorial statement.

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Craftsmanship: Material Consciousness - Inside Indonesia’s Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2014

July 15, 2014

At its debut at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, Indonesia offers a peek into the country’s past 100 years of architectural history in its pavilion: “Craftsmanship: Material Consciousness.” Moving images projected onto glass panels tell Indonesia’s story through the development of six materials, traced over time: wood, stone, brick, steel, concrete and bamboo. See images of the pavilion and enjoy a statement from the curators after the break.

Inside "Open: A Bakema Celebration" - The Dutch Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

July 08, 2014

"We consider Bakema not so much an architect of buildings, but an architect of a new idea of what Holland could be--a new national identity, a new national landscape…with an architect in the center of this particular ambition." - Guus Beumer, co-curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale

Guus Beumer and Drik van den Heuvel, curators of "Open: A Bakema Celebration," sat down to speak with us about this year's Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. With the help of graphic designers Experimental Jetset, Beumer and van den Heuvel created an emblematic, stripped-down, research-focused display of a particularly Dutch idea: the "Open Society." This was all conveyed within and around a 1:1 model of architect Jaap Bakema's Lijnbaan Shopping Centre (Rotterdam 1954), constructed within the Netherlands Pavilion.

The hope, as Dirk van den Heuvel explains, is that "the elements of Bakema...may be useful, inspiring for our own practices today. Elements that he developed in questions to housing, planning, modernizing… I think when you come here you will recognize that there's lots of affinities, interesting things that we still work with and that we will work with in the future."

After you watch the video, make sure to read the curator's statement, and see images of the pavilion, after the break.

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