LANZA Atelier   The architecture firm LANZA atelier, founded in Mexico City in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has been selected to design the 25th temporary pavilion for London's Serpentine Gallery. Titled ‘A Serpentine’, it will officially open on J

Sou Fujimoto Architects   Japan   Designed and built for Expo 2025 Osaka, the huge wooden structure in the shape of a ring is conceived as a symbolic piece that represents the unity of all the participating countries. It also marks a clear boundary in the diffuse territory of the art

Flores & Prats   Italy   For the sixteenth edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Holy See decided to participate with a proposal that scattered small chapels throughout the lush gardens of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. This privileged enclave offers ideal co

Flores & Prats   United Kingdom   Castles have been a recurring source of pride for communities, as well as a constant theme of interest for artists and architects, becoming deeply rooted elements in the collective memory of places and fundamental pieces of the imagination of many of

Flores & Prats   Italy   In the southern part of the Arsenale, the long Corderie building has been a central feature of the Venice Biennale since 1980. This unique structure once housed the production of ropes and cables for boats, a past still visible in its imposing roof a

Ecosistema urbano   United States   On view through 24 October, the art installation PlanTable transforms the urban environment of Boston’s Chinatown into an ecological refuge. Curated by Lani Asunción and presented by the Pao Arts Center as part of the Un-monument initiative, it amoun

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Kingdom   Titled ‘Change,’ the pavilion is set out as a scenography of climate and geology. The space reflects how matter changes under the influence of environmental conditions, namely sun, rain, gravity, and darkness. The pavilion is an assembly of three dif

Studio Anne Holtrop   Netherlands   I nspired by the Déssin Automatique of Dadaist Jean Arp, in which he discovered chance to shape his work, the Temporary Museum started from pencil scribbles. Here, unconsciously sketched drawings become a way of discovering form that does not referen

Heimat Architects   China   In the context of a theater festival, a space intended for tasting liqueur is distributed in four lightweight modular structures around a courtyard where visitors can stop and take a break. As much in the three corridors as in the bar area, thin trus

Leopold Banchini Architects   Spain   An ornamental fountain – enclosed smack at the center of a rotary – has been turned into a small spa, in a statement on how wheeled traffic causes the sacrifice of public space. Beside the basin, which provides a cold bath, is a changing room and a s

Manuel Bouzas   Portugal   The remains of an old villa and its fountain have been restored and protected with a wooden roof to give the people of the neighborhood a gathering place with a distinctive identity. Rising from newly cleaned walls and with the tip resting on a V-sha

Espacio Común   Peru   Coinciding with the swelling of the Itaya River, a new floating stage was raised in accordance with vernacular practices, using only basic tools and the body itself to manipulate pieces on water. On a raft made of logs and a surface of planks, a trap

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco Paula Chalkho Enrique Espinosa Pérez Santiago Pradilla   Colombia   One of the stops at a literary fair makes use of textiles manufactured by local associations and shelves that will eventually be reused in a variety of cultural initiatives. Preceded by an enormous macramé tapestry, the sequence of spaces is enriched

Abarca y Palma Arquitectos   Chile   The reactivation of an abandoned three-spout fountain was the trigger for creating a refreshing experience, like a pause withdrawn from the rest of the surrounding parkland. As if the pool of water were undergoing repair, low panels were set up all a

P+S Estudio de Arquitectura   France   The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue with the landscape. Prominent among them is Compluvium, a

ETH Zürich   Switzerland   Rising almost 30 meters, Tor Alva is the tallest 3D-printed tower in the world. Built by Nova Fundaziun Origen with ETH Zurich, it aimed to revitalize Mulegns (Switzerland), a small Alpine village with only eleven inhabitants at present. Tor Alva (Wh

Nikken Sekkei   Japan   Each panel is really a sandwich composed of two flat surfaces of four layers each, held up by an inner metal substructure onto which they are simply screwed to facilitate future dismantling and reuse...

Atelier Brückner   Japan   From the roof’s intricate structure to the signage, the building is based on the geometrical patterns of a technique of scratching plaster – ganch carving – used in Central Asia to decorate palaces and temples...

Kengo Kuma   Japan   A work of AMO, the exhibition design offers a journey through twelve locations along the Qatari coast, around a cinema lined with curtains that are an abstract recreation of the experience of taking shelter in a tent...

Lina Ghotmeh   Japan   Almost 3,000 pieces of solid wood are joined by means of a sophisticated system that combines traditional Japanese carpentry with the naval know-how of the island in the Persian Gulf. Like the hull of a dhow – a type of boat of Arabian origin – the s

interplay   Japan   The snail-like geometry of the design allows a progression in the visitor’s experience of the interior, where a fluid public space culminates in an introspective concert hall located at the heart of the pavilion...

Foster + Partners   Japan   The cluttered mesh of streets characteristic of Arabian cities has been reproduced by means of a computer model in order to optimize bioclimatic protection...

Apropos Architects   Japan   While the central space for events is lit by a round skylight overhead, integrated into the passable roof, the uninterrupted gallery provides large surfaces for the display of Bohemian glass art...

The installation Divided is part of SpY's research into the relationship between body, space, and perception. Through large-scale interventions in the urban fabric, the Spanish artist explores how monumentality and light can transform the viewer's ex

In May of 2022, Basel held its first Architecture Week, a full calendar of activities that gave access into many of the city’s prestigious practices and outstanding buildings. A year and two months later, the municipality of Providencia, Chile, made

Photographs by William Mulvihill offer a walk through the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, open until 13 October on the artificial island of Yumeshima. A ring-shaped avenue paved in wood, designed by Sou Fujimoto, surrounds the premi

From 19 to 24 June the city of Logroño is the scene of a special edition of Concéntrico, its International Festival of Architecture and Design, celebrating its now ten years of exploring public space. Since its founding in 2015, the event has for a f

From 6 June to 26 October the Serpentine Pavilion of 2025 can be visited by the public in Kensington Gardens, London. A work of the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), this year’s pavilion is named

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   If there is an urban model that nowadays shows clear symptoms of collapse, that’s Venice. The floating city has been sinking for decades under the weight of its own success, completely denatured and at the mercy of speculative policies. The ever more

The winners of the fourth edition of the TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, have been announced. The pavilion Espartal will be shown at Casa Med

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   The sacred used to be clothed in the sublime. A vestige of this was seen in the conclave, a ritual that would awaken much less awe if it did not take place in one of the most beautiful enclaves on Earth, where popes tried to make every square centime

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   Waters rise, temperaturas increase, and natural catastrophies keep happening, laying bare our incapacity to take care of the environment and showing that inaction has consequences. In this context of cut-off lows, fires, and extreme droughts, it seem

Alberto Ballesteros   Enrique Morillo   In a city of Byzantine domes, Gothic arches, and Ottoman columns – a crossroads and a meeting point for millennia – stones have much to say. Anyone traversing Venice with sharpened eyes and ears – skirting gondoliers, pizzerie, and souvenirs – senses

The Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum designed this year’s temporary pavilion for the Serpentine, London, marking twenty-five years since the London gallery’s first Serpentine Pavilion, which Zaha Hadid designed. Titled ‘A Capsule in Time,’ this

The 10th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 25 April to 1 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja, the annual event triggers ref

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

In line with the restoration of the Palais Garnier, the Opéra National de Paris invited the artist JR to decorate the over-30-meter scaffolding that currently overs the facade. Two installations evoking Plato’s cave allegory were developed: Act I – L

The urban canopy that protects the whole plaza is built with two triangular timber porticoes from which hangs a huge Alicantina-type rolling shutter in a dark green tone which pays tribute to this symbol of Mediterranean culture.

TAC! Is an annual festival of urban architecture that holds is second edition in Valencia (14 September – 16 October) and Donostia-San Sebastián (10 October – 13 November). Organized by Spain’s Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA)

Ever since Napoleon took possession of the Villa Medici, it has been home to the French Academy in Rome, an institution that continues to take in gifted pensionnaires, and in addition to that, has set in motion a festival involving a competition for

With great success Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design, aka Concéntrico, has for nine years now filled the northern Spanish city with imaginative ephemeral installations aimed at rethinking the urban environment and public spa

The 9th edition of Concentric, the International Festival of Architecture and Design held yearly in Logroño, took place from 27 April to 2 May. Through installations temporarily scattered around the capital of La Rioja, the annual event triggers refl

Tom Dixon, Marc Fornes, MAD architects, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, and OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture presented their installations at Milan Design Week, part of the 61st Salone del Mobile, open from 18 to 23 April 2023.

By eating, we digest territories. At the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, due to open on 19 May, visitors to the Spanish Pavilion will have the opportunity to embark on a journey into architectures that feed us, fr

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

The Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta founded DRIFT in 2007. It is a studio that specializes in aerial installations, with a multi-disciplinary team working on experiential artistic creations. In collaboration with the companies Drone Sto