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?
The Landscape of Defence exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale narrates the militarised border zone from the perspective of its inhabitants.
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.
“Hamas has to be eliminated. But…” says Moshe Safdie in the wake of the Israel-Gaza War.
Russia invasion: “Stand for Ukraine,” said Ukrainian architects and designers in the wake of the major military attack in Europe since World War II.
Russia invasion: “Stand for us Ukraine,” said Ukrainian architects and designers in the wake of the major military attack since World War II.
