Cross-laminated timber fins wrap Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi pavilion in Tokyo
Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi recreational venue is dressed with a skin of wooden leaves filtering light like trees in a forest.
The best of Tokyo Olympics’ architecture, empty but great!
Kengo Kuma, Kenzo Tange and Fumihiko Maki but also Tange Associates, Kume Sekkei and more… Tokyo Olympics’ architecture is cross-generational and great, even if we can’t be there!
The best design and architecture of 2020 Tokyo Olympics is on Pinterest!
We have created a Pinterest board rounding up what we liked the most at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Check it out!
UEFA Euro 2020: 6 top archi-stadiums hosting the tournament
Foster+Partners, Herzog & de Meuron, Kiro Kurokawa and more have designed some of the best stadiums hosting the Euro 2020 games.
May 2021 Newsletter: Venice, Milan and tributes to late architecture masters
In our May 2021 newsletter, hope and optimism at Venice Architecture Biennale, great news from Milan, and a tribute to the late Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Helmut Jahn who shaped contemporary architecture with opposite paths.
Multi-species architecture takes central stage at Venice Biennale 2021
We are not alone on this planet. To save it from the social and climate crisis, architects can team up with other beings, learn from bees and birds, look after elephants and harness the unexpected superpowers of algae: 8 multi-species architecture projects and exhibitions on show at the Venice Biennale.
The best of Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 is on Archipanic – Check our Pinterest board!
We have created a Pinterest board rounding up what we liked the most at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
PLATFORM AUSTRIA: Austria Pavilion at Venice Biennale explores the urban impact of digital platforms
How would our life be without bike-sharing, Zoom, food delivery and dating apps, social networks, Amazon, Uber and Netflix? The PLATFORM AUSTRIA exhibition at Venice Biennale triggers critical thinking on platform-driven cities.
CON-NECT-ED-NESS: the Danish Pavilion in Venice evokes an indelible sense of connection between people and Nature
A cyclic water system connects visitors, senses and surroundings at CON-NECT-ED-NESS, the biophilic exhibition at the Danish Pavilion.
Mahalla: Uzbekistan Pavilion debuts at Venice Architecture Biennale
Explore a traditional ‘Mahalla,’ a disappearing traditional urban and rural settlement, at the inaugural Uzbekistan Pavilion in Venice.
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha dies, aged 92
The late Pritzker Prize architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha mostly worked in São Paulo, but his austere raw concrete buildings influenced contemporary architecture in South America and beyond.
AIR ARIA AIRE: Catalonia in Venice explores the potential of bigdata to heal cities from pollution and the health crisis
The AIR ARIA AIRE exhibition combines bidgata research on Barcelona air pollution, a breathing multisensory installation and a polyphonic soundscape to presents an investigation into air as a common asset upon which our survival depends.
The Garden of Privatized Delights, the British Pavilion in Venice asks how to make public space more inclusive
London studio Unscene Architecture presents ‘The Garden of Privatized Delights’ exhibition at the British Pavilion in Venice. The exhibition explores the rapid rise of privately-owned public space, offering an inspiring alternative vision that urges both sectors to work together to create better-designed spaces for all.
Entanglement, the Irish Pavilion in Venice explores the physical impact of bigdata
A ‘like’ in Malesia does affect a community near Dublin in terms of energy consumption. The ‘Entanglement’ exhibition at the Irish Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 brings the physicality of data infrastructure to the forefront, addressing the environmental, cultural and human impact of data
How will we live together? Venice Biennale 2021 explores the architectural potential in a post-pandemic world
After more than a year of isolation and social distancing, Venice Biennale 2021 inaugurates with a big question: How will we live together? Curator Hashim Sarkis, dean of architecture and planning at M.I.T., invited architects to present projects tackling global issues.
WHAT WE SHARE: the Nordic Pavilion in Venice explores the potential of participative cohousing
For the WHAT WE SHARE exhibition, Helen & Hard transformed the Nordic Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2021 into a full-scale section of a solid wood cohousing project in Norway, designed in close collaboration with a group of residents.
Venice Biennale: Rafael Moneo awarded with Golden Lion for Life Achievement
Spanish architect, educator, critic and theoretician Rafael Moneo is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, that will open to the public on Saturday May 22nd 2021.
Flamboyant postmodernist architect Helmut Jahn dies in a bycycle accident aged 81
Helmut Jahn, the Flash Gordon of architecture, brought a ‘glitzy’ and bombastic attitude to postmodernism, from Chicago to Berlin, Philadelphia, Bangkok and beyond.
TECLA by Mario Cucinella is the first eco-sustainable house 3D printed from raw earth
MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP, World’s Advanced Saving Project, teamed up to develop and create the TECLA eco-sustainable housing model.
Herzog & de Meuron completes the M+ Museum building in Hong Kong
Located in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District on the Victoria Harbour waterfront, the M+ Museum building comprises a semi-transparent tower housing a research center, shops, and restaurants which intersects a horizontal slab filled with exhibition galleries. The museum is set to open at the end of 2021.
St. Patrick’s Day! 5 architectural whiskey distilleries making Ireland’s nectar flow
5 Irish whiskey architectures to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: a former beer factory converted into a whiskey temple, a see-through garden pot still house and a medieval church turned into a distillery…
The first large-scale Memorial to the Pandemic invites to reflect on our relationship with Nature
Gomez Platero designed the World Memorial to the Pandemic in Uruguay to build a collective consciousness reminding us that humankind is not the center of the ecosystem.
International Women’s Day 2021: celebrating women in architecture
Good news celebrating women in architecture: Venice Biennale awards Lina Bo Bardi, Kate Macintosh wins the Jane Drew Prize 2021 and more.
Covid-19 has re-shaped iconic carnival capitals from Rio to Venice and New Orleans
Carnival 2021: Oscar Niemeyer’s Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro has been transformed into a Covid-Drome and works as a vaccine drive through, Venice empty streets offer locals a chance to reflect on ‘overtourism’ while New Orleans residents, orphan of the traditional Mardi Gras parade, have transformed their houses into floats.
Happy Chinese New Year! 4 cattle-friendly architectures to celebrate the Year of the Ox
From a ‘cowshed collective’ bringing sustainability to social farming to a translucent barn giving a better quality of life to animals. We celebrate the Year of the Ox with 4 brilliant architectural barns.
Wormhole Library by MAD Architects is nearing completion in China
The sensuously curved and multi-functional organic concrete structure of the Wormhole Library is punctured, creating voids of varying sizes that let the light into the interiors.
David Altrath portrays the ominous interiors of the Stasi Headquarters in Berlin
German photographer David Altrath has captured the perfectly preserved interiors of the Stasi Headquarters in Berlin, now a museum, memorial and research centre ‘against the sleep of reason’.
Zecc Architecten clads the Steel Craft House with a Corten steel façade
Hand-made for over ten years by Zecc Architercten, its residents and their befriended craftsmen, the Steel Craft House is a fine example of self-building.
House of Hungarian Music by Sou Fujimoto is nearing completion in Budapest
Inspired by sound waves, Sou Fujimoto’s ‘House of Hungarian Music’ is topped by a white roof, punctuated with almost 100 holes for trees to grow through.
Abin Design Studio’s Gallery House in Bansberia is cladded with ceramic and terracotta bricks
Inspired by terracotta temples found in the Indian state of West Bengal, the Gallery House community centre “is a humane gesture of giving back to the local community, without disrupting the privacy and security of inner functions.”