As Israel sits out the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the British and Lebanese pavilions confront architecture’s role amid the Middle Eastern conflict.
From clearing mountains of rubble to restoring shattered infrastructure, Trump’s Peace Plan has laid the groundwork—but the true story of rebuilding Gaza remains unwritten, with one urgent question hanging over it all: who will pay for this monumental reconstruction?
At MilanTriennale, 471 Days uses architecture to make the Israel-Gaza war tangible through a staircase memorial where every day of loss is felt.
The World Architecture Festival announced the winners of the WAFX 2024 Prize. We selected seven human-based projects, including a gasometer turned into a green residential tower and a stacked vertical neighbourhood.
In the wake of the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on October 7, Israel declared war on the Gaza-based terroristic organisation. The country immediately sieged Gaza City, cutting out water, fuel and electricity – and then bombed so-called strategic targets where Hamas militants could have hidden, but also entire residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools, markets, and religious buildings. So far, 9.500 Palestinians have been killed.
“Due to the recent tragic events in Gaza and Israel, we cannot fathom putting anyone at risk in any way, shape or form.” Explain We Design Beirut founder Mariana Wehbe.
“Hamas has to be eliminated. But…” says Moshe Safdie in the wake of the Israel-Gaza War.
