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Cloudscapes / Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects

17:00 - 13 July, 2019
Cloudscapes / Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects, Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects Courtesy of Transsolar & Tetsuo Kondo Architects + 7

Blurry Venice Installation / Plastique Fantastique

06:00 - 5 June, 2019
Blurry Venice Installation / Plastique Fantastique, Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique
Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique

Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique Courtesy of Plastique Fantastique + 11

  • Architects

    Plastique Fantastique

  • Location

    Giardini della Biennale, Giazzo street, 30122 Venice VE, Italy

  • Category

    Installation

  • Plastique Fantastique

    Marco Canevacci & Yena Young

  • Area

    212.0 m2

  • Project Year

    2019

AD Classics: Venice Hospital / Le Corbusier

22:00 - 16 October, 2018
AD Classics: Venice Hospital / Le Corbusier, Model. Image © Fondation Le Corbusier (FLC/ADAGP)
Model. Image © Fondation Le Corbusier (FLC/ADAGP)

This article was originally published on August 15, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Le Corbusier made an indelible mark on Modernist architecture when he declared “une maison est une machine-à-habiter” (“a house is a machine for living”). His belief that architecture should be as efficient as machinery resulted in such proposals such as the Plan Voisin, a proposal to transform the Second Empire boulevards of Paris into a series of cruciform skyscrapers rising from a grid of freeways and open parks.[1] Not all of Le Corbusier’s concepts, however, were geared toward such radical urban transformation. His 1965 proposal for a hospital in Venice, Italy, was notable in its attempt at seeking aesthetic harmony with its unique surroundings: an attempt not to eradicate history, but to translate it.

Model. Image © Fondation Le Corbusier (FLC/ADAGP) Plan Plan Situation Plan + 7

AD Classics: Nordic Pavilion in Venice / Sverre Fehn

22:00 - 15 October, 2018
AD Classics: Nordic Pavilion in Venice / Sverre Fehn, The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman
The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman

This article was originally published on March 30, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Three were originally invited to draw up plans for a ‘Nordic’ pavilion: the Finnish partnership Reima and Raili Pietilä, Sverre Fehn from Norway, and the Swede, Klas Anshelm. Following the selection of Fehn’s proposal in 1959, Gotthard Johansson wrote in the Svenska Dagbladet of the project’s “stunning simplicity [...], without too many architectural overtones”[1] – a proposal for a space able to unite a triumvirate of nations under one (exceptional) roof.

The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman The Nordic Pavilion (Giardini, Venice). Image © Åke E:son Lindman + 30

ISOROPIA / Center for Information Technology and Architecture

02:00 - 13 October, 2018
ISOROPIA / Center for Information Technology and Architecture, © Anders Ingvartsen
© Anders Ingvartsen

© Anders Ingvartsen © Anders Ingvartsen © Anders Ingvartsen © Anders Ingvartsen + 22

  • Architects

    Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, Yuliya Sinke Baranovskaya, Vasiliki Fragkia, Rune Noël Meedom Meldgaard Bjørnson-Langen, Sebastian Gatz

  • Location

    Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

  • Category

    Extension

  • Area

    79.0 m2

  • Project Year

    2018

  • Photographs

    Anders Ingvartsen

Loggia d`Ombra / In Praise of Shadows

11:00 - 16 August, 2018
Loggia d`Ombra / In Praise of Shadows, © Pedro Kok
© Pedro Kok

© Pedro Kok © Pedro Kok © Pedro Kok © Pedro Kok + 20

  • Architects

    In Praise of Shadows

  • Location

    Venice 16th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

  • Category

    Temporal installations

  • Lead Architects

    Fredric Benesch, Katarina Lundeberg

  • Area

    50.0 m2

  • Project Year

    2018

  • Photographs

    Pedro Kok

Chapel for San Giorgio Maggiore / Andrew Berman Architect

11:00 - 1 August, 2018
Chapel for San Giorgio Maggiore / Andrew Berman Architect, © Adria Goula
© Adria Goula

© Adria Goula © Adria Goula © Adria Goula © Adria Goula + 18

ReCasting / Alison Brooks Architects

11:00 - 25 June, 2018
ReCasting / Alison Brooks Architects, © Luke Hayes
© Luke Hayes

© Luke Hayes © Luke Hayes © Luke Hayes © Luke Hayes + 24

oxymoron / Sauerbruch Hutton

01:00 - 22 June, 2018
oxymoron / Sauerbruch Hutton , © Jan Bitter
© Jan Bitter

© Jan Bitter © Jan Bitter © Jan Bitter © Jan Bitter + 18

  • Architects

    Sauerbruch Hutton

  • Location

    Castello, 30122 Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

  • Category

    Installation

  • Lead Architects

    Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch, Juan Lucas Young,Jörg Albeke, Isabelle Hartmann, Bettina Magistretti, Emanuela Mendes, Francesca Poloni, Tanja Reiche-Hoppe, Caroline Wolf

  • Area

    20.0 m2

  • Project Year

    2018

  • Photographs

    Jan Bitter

Vatican Chapel / Foster + Partners

03:00 - 7 June, 2018
Vatican Chapel / Foster + Partners, © Nigel Young / Foster+Partners
© Nigel Young / Foster+Partners

© Laurian Ghinitoiu © Nigel Young / Foster+Partners © Nigel Young / Foster+Partners © Laurian Ghinitoiu + 21

Bamboo Stalactite / VTN Architects

12:00 - 30 May, 2018
Bamboo Stalactite / VTN Architects, © Inexhibit
© Inexhibit

© Francesco Galli © Inexhibit © Inexhibit © Inexhibit + 19

  • Architects

    VTN Architects

  • Location

    Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

  • Category

    Pavillion

  • Principals

    Vo Trong Nghia, Nguyen Tat Dat

  • Architect in Charge

    To Quang Cam, Thomas Boerendonk

  • Bamboo Construction Leader

    VTN Architects

  • Area

    290.0 m2

  • Project Year

    2018

  • Photographs

    Inexhibit, Francesco Galli

Encounters in Optimism: Utopia in a Finite World

04:15 - 17 August, 2016
Encounters in Optimism: Utopia in a Finite World, La Chateau de Venise. Image Courtesy of VAi
La Chateau de Venise. Image Courtesy of VAi

In late August, the Flanders Architecture Institute will organise Encounters in Optimism: Utopia in a Finite World, an interactive programme of lectures, debates and workshops that will take place in various national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The overarching theme is "the architectural utopia in a finite world."

Together with The British Council, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Flanders Architecture Institute has put together a programme for architects, students and the general public to reflect on how architecture can redefine the city. The economic climate and the idea of utopia are the main topics in these discussions.

Launch Event: International Design Competition BAITASI 2016 - Venice

19:30 - 24 May, 2016
Launch Event: International Design Competition BAITASI 2016 - Venice

As a part of BAITASI Remade, Beijing Huarong Jinying Investment & Development Co., Ltd. and World Architecture Magazine will hold an international design competition to improve the BAITASI neighbourhood in Beijing.

“Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement” at Fondazione Prada's Venetian Venue

11:30 - 11 May, 2016
“Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement” at Fondazione Prada's Venetian Venue, Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement: an Experimental Media Research Facility at Fondazione Prada in Venice. Photo by Jacopo Farina
Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement: an Experimental Media Research Facility at Fondazione Prada in Venice. Photo by Jacopo Farina

“Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement” is an upcoming, pioneering project on contemporary image production. Conceived and designed by independent architect Luigi Alberto Cippini and developed in collaboration with film director Giovanni Fantoni Modena, “Belligerent Eyes” sets itself as an experimental media research facility geared in the spaces of Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, Ca’ Corner della Regina.

With “Belligerent Eyes” Fondazione Prada, restlessly searching for new grounds of confrontation on cinema and visual languages, experiments with new forms of collaboration, analysis and research. “Belligerent Eyes” was born out the Fondazione’s will to create a reciprocally stimulating exchange with younger generations working in

Hong Kong Exhibition, 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

14:00 - 30 April, 2016
Hong Kong Exhibition, 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Stratagems in Architecture: Hong Kong In Venice
Stratagems in Architecture: Hong Kong In Venice

The Hong Kong Exhibition at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) will have its Opening Ceremony on 28th May 2016 in Venice (Preview period from 26th to 27th May). Mr. Stanley SIU is the Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Exhibition, together with his team of 16 young architects and artists for this initiative.

In response to the title of the 15th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition ‘REPORTING FROM THE FRONT’, the theme of the Hong Kong Exhibition is inspired by the Chinese Classic “Thirty-Six Stratagems”.

Residential Building Refurbishment / Studio Macola

02:00 - 23 December, 2015
Residential Building Refurbishment / Studio Macola, © Marco Zanta
© Marco Zanta

© Marco Zanta © Marco Zanta © Marco Zanta © Marco Zanta + 35

Call for Proposals: Collateral Events for Venice Biennale 2016

16:17 - 1 September, 2015
Call for Proposals: Collateral Events for Venice Biennale 2016, Venice Biennale 2014 Collateral Event: Time Space Existence. Image © studio sc, studio mk27; shooting space, 2011
Venice Biennale 2014 Collateral Event: Time Space Existence. Image © studio sc, studio mk27; shooting space, 2011

La Biennale di Venezia has launched a call for proposals for the Collateral Events of 2016. Searching for original exhibitions, installations and/or symposiums that will run alongside the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, the call is restricted to non-profit public or private institutions. All proposals must be "meaningful in relation" to the Exhibition's theme. Selection will be contingent on the approval of Artistic Director Alejandro Aravena and the Board of the Biennale. All Collateral Events will be autonomously organized outside the institutional venues of La Biennale (Giardini and Arsenale). Submit your ideas HERE by October 30, 2015.

Open Call: Represent Estonia at the 2016 Venice Biennale

06:00 - 23 June, 2015
Open Call: Represent Estonia at the 2016 Venice Biennale, Estonian exposition "Interspace" at the 2014 Biennale; Johanna Jõekalda, Johan Tali and Siim Tuksam. Image Courtesy of Estonian Centre of Architecture
Estonian exposition "Interspace" at the 2014 Biennale; Johanna Jõekalda, Johan Tali and Siim Tuksam. Image Courtesy of Estonian Centre of Architecture

The Estonian Centre of Architecture has launched its two-stage public international curator competition to decide Estonia’s project at the next Venice Biennale. The first stage of the competition will close August 31, 2015, with three proposals moving onto a second stage and the winner being announced on November 10, 2015. Proposals are open to art theorists, art historians, architects, designers, interior designers, historians or curators of fields related to architecture. Entries must be in either Estonian or English and international entries are expected to include team members familiar with Estonian architecture. Although the general theme of the 15th Venice Biennale has not been revealed yet the proposal should reflect current global issues and important aspects of the ideas and practice of modern Estonian architecture.