Atelier POEM   Spain   The studio of Alice Cecchini and Roman Joliy, Atelier Poem, has designed this open shelter for Foresta Collective. The group operates between Germany and Spain and promotes education based on direct experience with nature. The project is a spatial re

Thomas Phifer and Partners   United States   The firm Thomas Phifer and Partners has built a red concrete pavilion for the recently completed Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. Designed by AECOM, it incorporates strategies to improve flood resilie

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

Atelier Deshaus    China   Located in the Laoyu River Wetland Park at Dianchi Lake, this pavilion initially served as the entrance to the 2024 Dianchi Art Festival. When the event ended, the structure was preserved as a marker for entering the park, a key area within the urban

depA Architects   Portugal   A perimeter composed of large blocks of granite and a gridded wooden roof determine the spaces of this greenhouse located within the famous park of Portugal’s northern capital...

Balkrishna Doshi Studio Sangath    Germany   The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany) has inaugurated Doshi Retreat, a space thought up by the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, winner of the 2018 Pritzker Prize, who died in 2023. The project was carried out in collaboration with his grandda

Valdivieso Arquitectos   Spain   In the Sierra de Gúdar, Alcalá de la Selva (Teruel), an architectural intervention has enlarged the social area of a country house, annexing a pavilion – intended as an auxiliary space – that deliberately contrasts with its surroundings. Its design a

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   Italy   The pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for Expo Milano showcases the country’s agrarian heritage, which stems from the ancient civilization of Dilmun. With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that were fruitbearing throughout the six-mont

Studio Anne Holtrop   Denmark   This project proposes a new approach to making, in which the material properties take on a key role. The fluid matter works together with the earth mould to show the interaction between intention and contingency. The resulting pieces seem at once bui

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

Wutopia Lab   China   In Shanghai’s Daning Park, Wutopia Lab raised in record time this lakeside pavilion for the construction firm CSCEC Jiuhe East China Region. The project took off from the clear but difficult idea of keeping two existing buildings intact and without a

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Immersed in the extensive garden of a 1930s villa in a residential neighborhood, a small wooden structure stands as a contemporary interpretation of the backyard barn. It is built with rough and inexpensive material: a simple structure of prefabricat

Associates Architecture   Italy   Brescia marble may not be as famous as the Carrara that sculptors like Pisano and Michelangelo used, but the basin around the city is one of the largest producers of ornamental stone in Italy. In celebration of both its geological diversity and its t

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

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...

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 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

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

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 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

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.

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

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 Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea. A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensingt

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take

Expo 2020

The World Expo of 2020 has opened its doors. Already the web is flooded with night views of pavilions silhouetted against the excessive backdrop of Dubai. And proliferating alongside the myriad images are the words of a rhetoric which, while continui

Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international event ever to be held in the Middle East will until 31 March 2022 exhibit proposals for development that the participating nations have set up on the premises, in the spiri

The Economist   There are no politics at the Middle East’s first world’s fair. The setting is dramatic. Visitors passing from the harsh midday sun to the dim interior are met with slogans. “We believe that every human is part of the collective conscience,” reads a m

Expo 2020 officially opened in Dubai on 1 October. Like so many other premium celebrations, it is being held a year later than it was supposed to be, delayed by Covid-19. Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international e

The Expo in Dubai kicked off on 30 September with a ceremony, and welcomes the public from 1 October to 31 March 2022. The event is expected to bring in some 25 million visitors. Video Map

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the ephemeral Glasraum of the Werkbund’s 1927 exhibition in Stuttgart, the dynamic Wrightian space flows between glazed walls that reconcile the expressionist reflections with the transparency of the Sachlichkeit to expose universal truths at the

Artnet   Taylor Dafoe   Chicago artist Theaster Gates has been tapped to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the prestigious project. A spokesperson for Serpentine Gallery confirmed Gate’s commission for the pavil

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

Peter Wever   A Multimedial Space at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair

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