Inspiring architecture from around the globe.
How can architecture tackle climate change? The Natural Intelligens section at Carlo Ratti’s Venice Biennale explores nature-driven solutions, from pachidems’ dung bricks to architecturally grown branches, city-dwelling bugs’ homes, and structures grown by microbes.
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani unveils ‘Harmonic Tides’, a glowing, wave-like 3D-printed corridor for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.
Commissioned by Clerkenwell Design Week, ‘A Week at the Knees’ brings a playful twist to the London festival. Indeed, this is no ordinary building.
An eye-catching whirlpool of panoramic stairs winds through and tops the Fenix Museum of Migration. More than just architecture, it’s an immersive experience rooted in human stories.
Inequalities, the Triennale’s 24th International Exhibition, invites us to rethink our future—from urban injustice to microbial design.
The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale merges architecture and biotechnology with Picoplanktonics, an exhibition featuring bioarchitectures thriving with CO2-absorbing cyanobacteria.
Data fountains, ‘hydric doors,’ and an architecture atlas. The ‘Water Parliaments’ exhibition invites visitors to reflect on water’s role in shaping our environment.
The Landscape of Defence exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale narrates the militarised border zone from the perspective of its inhabitants.
Part espresso bar, part laboratory, the Canal Café project by Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ukraine Pavilion explores architecture as a tool for resistance: from traditional building methods to improvised construction and the reconstruction process.
The Bahrain Pavilion in Venice proposes an innovative solution inspired by traditional cooling systems that helps construction workers deal with extreme heat.
Majeda Alhinai and William Virgil digitally abstracted elements of traditional communal spaces into a sinuous aluminium architecture for the first Oman Pavilion in Venice.
A mass timber structure welcomes visitors to the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition explores the porch as a powerful architectural and cultural space of welcoming, community, and imagination.
The SIDELINED exhibition queers the sports bar reimagining how we can play together, gather, and compete without divisions.
Modernism shaped architecture for men and women. The Industry Muscle exhibition transforms the Nordic Pavilion in Venice into a stage, showcasing an alternative architectural model envisioned from a trans perspective.
With the ‘Build of Site’ exhibition, Søren Pihlmann renovated the Denmark Pavilion at the Venice Biennale while showcasing innovative methods for reusing surplus materials uncovered during the construction process.
A subtropical forest within the Belgian pavilion ‘controls’ irrigation, lighting, and ventilation systems to purify the air and lower the temperature. The Building Biospheres exhibition investigates the potential of plants in architecture.
Whisky meets architecture on the eve of the Venice Biennale. Ben Dobbin’s design highlights the perfectly balanced nature of The Dalmore as well as the ebb and flow of Scotland’s landscape. The sculpture is the third chapter of the Luminary Series project co-curated with V&A Dundee.
Brutalist melancholia and modernist utopias: Laurent Kronental’s ‘Souvenir d’un Futur’ photo essay delves into the concrete ocean of expansive real estate around Paris and portrays the ‘urban veterans’ residing within it.
Are you going to Venice for the Biennale? Make sure to explore outside the Arsenale and Giardini. We rounded up sixteen exhibitions across the city’s canals.
We selected sixteen national pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2025 that explore how architects can react to climate change with natural, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Foster + Partners captured the vibes, sounds, and flavours of a traditional desert village at the Saudi Arabia Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka.
The Philippines Pavilion at Expo 2025 is wrapped by a woven facade that combines the skills and narratives of over 200 Filipino workshops and communities.
Trahan Architects imagined the USA Pavilion as an expansive plaza framed by panoramic LED screens showcasing American urban and natural landscapes. An array of exhibitions explores innovation, space exploration, and entrepreneurship.
A winding copper staircase invites visitors to the French Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka to a Theatre for Life, showcasing the country’s savoir-faire.
Beethoven’s music and a striking wooden ribbon welcome visitors at the Austrian Pavilion, in tune with the motto ‘Composing the Future.’
Inspired by the Renaissance vision for the Ideal City, the Italian Pavilion by Mario Cucinella Architects invites visitors to experience the country’s art, architecture, science, and technology.
The Blue Ocean Dome Pavilion in Osaka consists of three distinct bubbles created with cutting-edge materials and techniques.
The Qatar Pavilion was inspired by traditional fishermen’s boats and Japanese wood-joinery techniques.
The pavilion embraces the Cycle of Life concept of continuous transformation and reuse. Envisioned as a living organism, it is shaped as a monumental ring formed from layers of timber planks.
