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Canada blurs fact and fiction with green screen-wrapped Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion

June 22, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Canada Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Montréal studio TBA has wrapped the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in a green screen so that it can be replaced digitally with other buildings. Called Impostor Cities, the pavilion was designed to be a comment on architectural authenticity focusing on the way Canadian cities are often used to portray other places in films. “The

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Dirk Somers creates fictional city from fifty recently completed Flemish buildings

June 9, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Venice Architecture Biennale - Belgian Pavilion 2021

Dirk Somers, founder of Antwerp studio Bovenbouw Architectuur, created a “fictional, yet recognisable” Flemish city named Composite Presence for the Belgian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Composite Presence was constructed from 50 models of recent projects in Brussels and Flanders – a region in northern Belgium – that were completed by 45 contemporary architecture studios

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Ten pavilions to visit at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

June 4, 2021 James Parkes 0

Danish Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale

We’ve rounded up ten pavilions from the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale that respond to this year’s theme of How will we live together? With travel limited due to the coronavirus pandemic, few people have been able to visit the Venice Architecture Biennale in its opening weeks. However, with the event running until 21 November there

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Germany’s 2038 pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale puts QR codes on walls of empty building

May 25, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Germany has divided opinion at the Venice Architecture Biennale by inviting visitors to wander around an empty pavilion and experience digital content via QR codes. Called 2038 – The New Serenity, the presentation consists of a virtual “Cloud Pavilion” accessed by pointing smartphones at matrix barcodes on the walls of Germany’s neoclassical exhibition venue in

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Visitors share their impressions of “interesting and courageous” Venice Architecture Biennale

May 25, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0

With the Venice Architecture Biennale now open to the public, attendees have given their verdict on the first major cultural event to take place since the pandemic began. “It was interesting and very courageous,” architect Stefano Boeri told Dezeen. “And how important it is for Venice to say that the biennale is still alive. It

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Dutch Pavilion questions the premise of Venice Biennale with Who Is We? exhibit

May 20, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Entry to Who Is We? exhibition with video work

In response to the Venice Architecture Biennale’s theme How will we live together?, architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon have answered with another question in the Dutch Pavilion: Who is we? The Netherlands’ contribution to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale is coordinated by the Het Nieuwe Instituut. Its team argues that the “we”

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British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale examines threats to public space

May 20, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

A garden-like installation in the British Pavilion

London studio Unscene Architecture explores how pubs, high streets and green spaces in the UK can be made more inclusive in the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition, named The Garden of Privatised Delights, comprises a series of interactive rooms that investigate how specific public spaces can be better designed. It

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The pandemic has “re-imagined how we can exhibit” says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis

May 19, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0

Installing the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens 22 May, during the pandemic has forced participating architects to work in a more collaborative and sustainable way, according to curator Hashim Sarkis. “It has definitely affected, in a creative way, the question of efficiency and how we can reduce our carbon footprint,” he told Dezeen. “Many teams

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Venice Architecture Biennale postponed until 2021

May 18, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Venice Architecture Biennale has announced that this year’s event will be postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus, with the scheduled Art Biennale being pushed back to 2022. Organisers of the biennale, which is considered the most significant event in the architecture calendar, announced the decision to postpone this year’s event until May 2021 this morning.

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Salone del Mobile to evaluate situation as Milan, Venice and much of northern Italy sealed off due to coronavirus

March 8, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair postponed due to coronavirus

Bosses of Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair will meet this week to “assess the situation” as Lombardy and several northern Italian regions were locked down due to the coronavirus outbreak. The midweek meeting, which was scheduled before Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte signed the emergency decree last night, will examine the impact the ongoing

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