Tag: arkdes | ArchDaily ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA[The Nordic Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale Explores Architecture Through the Lens of the Trans Body]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1028885/the-nordic-pavilion-at-the-2025-venice-biennale-explores-architecture-through-the-lens-of-the-trans-body Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:30:00 +0000 Antonia Piñeiro https://www.archdaily.com/1028885/the-nordic-pavilion-at-the-2025-venice-biennale-explores-architecture-through-the-lens-of-the-trans-body The Nordic countries' display at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is housed in Sverre Fehn's celebrated 1962 Nordic Pavilion, a landmark of architectural modernism representing Sweden, Norway, and Finland. This year, the Nordic countries present an exhibition that blends architecture, performance, and art installation, treating the built environment as a stage for the sociopolitical norms of fossil-based culture. Curated by Kaisa Karvinen for the Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki, the exhibition, titled Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture, explores modern architecture through the lens of the trans body, featuring the work of Finnish artist Teo Ala-Ruona, who combines performance art, theatre, and choreography.

]]> <![CDATA[On-Site in Venice: 12 Interviews with Curators Discussing the Impact of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1006110/on-site-in-venice-9-interviews-with-curators-discussing-the-impact-of-the-2023-venice-architecture-biennale Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:30:00 +0000 Maria-Cristina Florian https://www.archdaily.com/1006110/on-site-in-venice-9-interviews-with-curators-discussing-the-impact-of-the-2023-venice-architecture-biennale While exploring the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, the ArchDaily team had a chance to engage in conversation with several curators of the national pavilions, along with Lesley Lokko, the curator of the entire exhibition. The discussions delved into the unique character of this year’s edition focused on an understanding of Africa as a “Laboratory of the Future.” Through this lens, the biennale became “a healing experience,” in the words of Lesley Lokko, reinterpreting and deconstructing the meaning behind ideas such as decolonization, decarbonization, resource management, or finding the hidden potential in vernacular forms of practice.

]]> <![CDATA[Tham & Videgård Celebrates Two Decades in Practice with Exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden]]> https://www.archdaily.com/992193/tham-and-videgard-celebrates-two-decades-in-practice-with-exhibition-in-stockholm-sweden Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:30:00 +0000 Paula Cano https://www.archdaily.com/992193/tham-and-videgard-celebrates-two-decades-in-practice-with-exhibition-in-stockholm-sweden The Swedish architecture firm Tham & Videgård exhibits a broad selection of projects celebrating over twenty years in practice at the ArkDes—Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. For the first time, the studio’s work is being presented in its entirety, displaying in detail acclaimed buildings like the winning proposal for the Denfert art center in Paris and the 150-meter-tall +One Tower for the Swedish Exhibition in Gothenburg. From November 2022 to August 27, 2023, On: Architecture offers visitors a full-scale spatial experience involving models, new photography, and films – all set within a glass ground showroom.

]]> <![CDATA[This 125-year-old Swedish Town Has Relocated, Buildings and All]]> https://www.archdaily.com/940050/this-125-year-old-swedish-town-has-relocated-buildings-and-all Sat, 23 May 2020 06:00:00 +0000 Molly Butcher https://www.archdaily.com/940050/this-125-year-old-swedish-town-has-relocated-buildings-and-all Kiruna Forever, an exhibition at ArkDes, traces the town's relocation due to geological instability.

]]> <![CDATA[Flying Panels – How Concrete Panels Changed the World]]> https://www.archdaily.com/927207/flying-panels-nil-how-concrete-panels-changed-the-world Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:00:00 +0000 Fabian Dejtiar https://www.archdaily.com/927207/flying-panels-nil-how-concrete-panels-changed-the-world Flying Panels - How Concrete Panels Changed the World is a new ArkDes exhibition designed by Note Design Studio and curated by Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola - authors of the Monolith Controversies exhibition, the winner of the Silver Lion award at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014.

]]> <![CDATA[Eight Architects Envision the Future of Stockholm at ArkDes]]> https://www.archdaily.com/916639/eight-architects-envision-the-future-of-stockholm-at-arkdes Fri, 10 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000 Eric Baldwin https://www.archdaily.com/916639/eight-architects-envision-the-future-of-stockholm-at-arkdes Eight of Sweden's leading architects have created new visions for the future of Stockholm in Boxen at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. Called Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron, the exhibition at ArkDes features visionary ideas for Skeppsbron in Gamla Stan. The exhibition celebrates the agency of the architect in thinking about the future city and aims to imagine new uses for Skeppsbron – one of the Swedish capital’s most symbolic inner-city sites.

]]> <![CDATA["Freestanding" Exhibition Shows the Power and Poetry of Sigurd Lewerentz’s Architecture]]> https://www.archdaily.com/896171/freestanding-exhibition-shows-the-power-and-poetry-of-sigurd-lewerentzs-architecture Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000 AD Editorial Team https://www.archdaily.com/896171/freestanding-exhibition-shows-the-power-and-poetry-of-sigurd-lewerentzs-architecture As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present Freestanding, an exhibition in the Biennale's Central Pavilion. Below, the team describes their contribution in their own words.

]]> <![CDATA[Call for Fellows: "Projecting the Future" – 2018 ArkDes Fellowship in Stockholm]]> https://www.archdaily.com/888544/call-for-fellows-projecting-the-future-nil-2018-arkdes-fellowship-in-stockholm Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:00:00 +0000 Rene Submissions https://www.archdaily.com/888544/call-for-fellows-projecting-the-future-nil-2018-arkdes-fellowship-in-stockholm The ArkDes Fellowship offers practitioners, spatial thinkers, and researchers operating in or around the fields of architecture and design opportunities for interdisciplinary research at ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. The first annual fellowship will be dedicated to the theme of Projecting the Future, providing four Fellows with space to conduct explorative work for a six month-long period (September 2018 to February 2019) in Stockholm.

With the headline exhibition The Future Starts Here opening in 2019, ArkDes will become a centre for future studies. Sweden is an important territory in which to consider future trends; while semi-peripheral, it maintains

]]> <![CDATA[In Therapy: Inside the Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale]]> https://www.archdaily.com/788407/in-therapy-inside-the-nordic-pavilion-at-the-2016-venice-biennale Tue, 31 May 2016 03:15:00 +0000 David Basulto & James Taylor-Foster https://www.archdaily.com/788407/in-therapy-inside-the-nordic-pavilion-at-the-2016-venice-biennale As part of ArchDaily's coverage of the 2016 Venice Biennale, we are presenting a series of articles written by the curators of the exhibitions and installations on show.

]]> <![CDATA[Nine Projects to be Highlighted in 'In Therapy', the Nordic Contribution to the 2016 Venice Biennale]]> https://www.archdaily.com/782330/nine-projects-from-finland-norway-sweden-to-be-highlighted-in-in-therapy-the-nordic-contribution-to-the-2016-venice-biennale Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:00:00 +0000 AD Editorial Team https://www.archdaily.com/782330/nine-projects-from-finland-norway-sweden-to-be-highlighted-in-in-therapy-the-nordic-contribution-to-the-2016-venice-biennale The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) have revealed that In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face—the exhibition for the Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, curated by David Basulto—will partly comprise "a contemporary survey of Nordic architecture." 300 projects, drawn from over 500 submissions to a recent open call, will be complemented by an in-depth study of nine projects completed post-2008 by practices including Tham & Videgård, Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki.

]]> <![CDATA[David Basulto to Curate Nordic Pavilion at 2016 Venice Biennale]]> https://www.archdaily.com/778232/nordic-pavilion-selects-david-basulto-as-curator-at-venice-biennale-2016 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:52:00 +0000 Rory Stott https://www.archdaily.com/778232/nordic-pavilion-selects-david-basulto-as-curator-at-venice-biennale-2016 The Nordic Pavilion, representing Finland, Norway and Sweden, has selected David Basulto as curator for their exhibition at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Responding to Biennale director Alejandro Aravena's theme for the 2016 event, Reporting from the Front, the exhibition organized by Basulto and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design (ArkDes) will use Nordic architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture as "a springboard" to understand the future challenges which architecture and the built environment will face. The announcement is accompanied by an open call for completed projects that address these challenges. Selected projects will be displayed in the Sverre Fehn-designed pavilion at the Venice Biennale from May 28th to November 27th 2016.

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