Bahrain Pavilion in Venice wins the Golden Lion with the Heatwave exhibition
The Bahrain Pavilion in Venice proposes an innovative solution inspired by traditional cooling systems that helps construction workers deal with extreme heat.
The Qatar World Cup Memorial tower reflects the migrants workers’ humanitarian disaster
Over 6,700 migrant workers died in the construction sites of the stadiums and infrastructures built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Such a gigantic figure inspired 1week1project to propose the conceptual evolving “Qatar World Cup Memorial” tower.
Sportwashing? The architectural dark side of 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
Sportwashing describes the practice of individuals, groups, corporations, or governments using sports to improve reputations tarnished by wrongdoing.
LABOR documentary gives voice to Portuguese builders and architects living in London
With LABOR documentary Pete Collard, Tim Abrahams and Richard John Seymour interviewed Portuguese immigrants who work in London building industry about their relationship with their home-country and post Brexit UK.
Brexit: design and architecture professionals oppose the UK leaving the European Union
David Chipperfield, Sam Baron, Thomas Heatherwick, Foster+Partners, Tom Dixon, David Adaje and many other British designers and architects oppose Brexit as it could compromise Britain’s leading role on the world stage, scare foreign investors, impoverish precious creative exchange and even cause a shortage of construction workers.
Fair Building: Polish Pavilion claims fairer working conditions in the construction site
With the Fair building exhibition, Polish pavilion at Venice Biennale proposes fair-trade architecture in favor of the most underrepresented participant of the industry: the construction worker.