Spain and Catalonia pavilions in Venice explore radical architecture rising from the crisis
At Venice Biennale 2016, Golden Lion-winning Spain pavilion and Catalonia pavilion show how crisis shaped architects’ radical and ingenious attitude.
The Architectural Imagination: architects go visionary to save and re-invent Detroit
Architects and locals team up to envision their dreams for Detroit future. The US Pavilion at Venice Biennale presents visionary proposals to fuel new energy in a city that craves for architectural imagination after a bankruptcy and decades of decline.
Eight fronts, battlefronts and frontiers on show at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Which are the fronts that architects can tackle in order to improve people’s life? We examine eight fronts and key topics explored by must-see exhibitions at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
Stefano Giovannoni launches on-line brand Qeeboo in response of traditional retail crisis
Are design malls and furniture stores a thing of the past? On the occasion of the launch of the new digital brand Qeeboo, ArchiPanic met founder Stefano Giovannoni, Nika Zupanc and Front to talk about new online business models.
Souvenir d’un Futur by Laurent Kronental explores Paris brutalist utopias
Brutalist melancholia and neglecter modernism: Souvenir d’un Futur photo essay by Laurent Kronental dives into the concrete ocean floating around Paris and portrays the elderly “urban veterans” who live in it.
Crisis Buster at Lisbon Triennale
Problem solving on a budget is already in action: check out the CRISIS BUSTER projects for civic-minded solutions at CLOSE, CLOSER, Lisbon Architecture Triennale!
The building “who” wanted to become a mountain
The short film TROLL – THE VOLUNTARY RUIN by Andreas Angelidakis narrates the story of Chara, Athen’s iconic modernist building. The movie explains in a surreal yet touching way the development and decline of the Greek capital through an architectural point of view.