Venice

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has designed a series of timber figures alongside a garden by Studio Albori for the Vatican City’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Named O Encontro, which translates as the encounter, the figures occupy a series of galleries at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore adjacent to the Andrea Palladio-designed San

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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Jisho Design has made a teahouse from food-waste-based materials at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Architects Takaaki Fuji, Hiroya Inage and De Yuan Kang from Mitsubishi Jisho Design designed the teahouse for the Time Space Existence exhibition held by the European Cultural Center during this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The teahouse was named Veneti-An – a combination

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Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University’s Form Finding Lab for its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale – a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented reality. The Angelus Novus Vault forms the entrance to the Time Space Existence group show, organised by the European Cultural Centre around the theme of the

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The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a black timber pyramid designed by David Adjaye for the Venice Architecture Biennale. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye has created a pointed structure crafted from blackened wood that was shown at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The form was given the

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A nomadic library created by architect Joar Nango that contains 15 years of material highlighting Indigenous Sámi architecture forms the basis of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Girjegumpi: The Sámi Architecture Library, the pavilion was designed by ArkDes museum curators Carlos Mínguez Carrasco and James Taylor-Foster. It centres around a

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This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is now open to the public. In this roundup, we spotlight nine projects from its main exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future. Curated by architect Lesley Lokko, The Laboratory of the Future includes a number of exhibitions exploring themes of decolonisation and decarbonisation. Many of these are examined through the

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The Dezeen team have been reporting from the 18th international architecture biennale in Venice, curated by Lesley Lokko. Read on for all the coverage from the third and final day (Friday 19 May) 5:30pm Ahead of the official presentation ceremony tomorrow morning, Dezeen digital editor Rupert Bickersteth spoke to Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement-winner Demas Nwoko.

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The Dezeen team are reporting from the 18th international architecture biennale in Venice, curated by Lesley Lokko. Read on for all the coverage from the second day (Thursday 18 May) 5:30pm A quiz show-style game that focuses on social, political and economic issues surrounding climate change is on show at the Korean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale, in another exclusive preview

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