Venice Biennale British Pavilion 2012 Exhibition

Leading British architects gathered in Venice for the official inauguration today (Monday 27 August) of the British Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale ahead of its opening to the public from 29 August – 25 November 2012.

Venice Biennale Greek Pavilion 2012 design

The Greek participation for the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia focuses on the particular dynamic of Athens during a period of economic meltdown.

Venice Biennale Danish Pavilion – 2012

BIG in collaboration with TENU, Julie Hardenberg and Inuk Silas Høgh present Connecting Greenland: AIR+PORT as a part of the exhibition “POSSIBLE GREENLAND” at the Danish Pavilion, exploring the potentials and challenges that Greenland is facing as the country gains global attention.

Venice Biennale Australian Pavilion architects

The Australia Council for the Arts today announced that one of Australia’s most highly regarded architectural practices, Denton Corker Marshall, will design the new Australian pavilion for the Venice Biennale, planned for completion in 2015.

Casin di Palazzo Lezze Venice: Cannaregio House

The building is located in the borough (sestiere) of Cannaregio in Venice, on the ground floor of the complex of Palazzo Lezze, at the end of the garden facing the water. This type of structure is called Casin (warehouse), and was designed, regarding the façade facing the Rio della Sensa, by Baldassarre Longhena.

Asolo Foothills House, Treviso Residence

Asolo Foothills House, Treviso residence garden

The complex is composed by two bodies adjacent and connected, that constituted a codified building complex of historic importance. The main domestic unity extend linearly to the annex on the ground floor and through a stair system and a catwalk.

Swatch Pavilion Venice Art Biennale 2011

Appearing as though an open-air living room, a pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s Giardini was an ultra-relaxed setting in the midst of a park landscape. Designed by German architects 3deluxe for label Swatch.

Venice Architecture Biennale OMA Installation

Coinciding with the start of the Venice Biennale today, OMA and Prada open an exhibition surveying recent collaborative works. The exhibition appears at Ca’ Corner della Regina, a former palazzo, alongside highlights from the Prada Fondazione collection.

Croatian Pavilion Venice Biennale

“So called Croatian Floating Pavilion designed by group of architects and professors was never exhibited at the Venice Biennale because it collapsed like a melted cream cake, on its way.”

Venice Biennale Dutch Pavilion – Netherlands

Ronald Rietveld Vacant NL Venice Biennale Dutch Pavilion

Thousands of buildings in the Netherlands lie vacant. Some of them for a week or a few months, many even for years. During the twelfth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Rietveld Landscape will highlight the huge potential of all that temporarily unoccupied space.

Venice Biennale Polish Pavilion – Poland

‘A neon Emergency Exit sign hangs on the facade of the Polish Pavilion. Inside, a surreal structure made of hundreds of reclaimed bird cages hides a path to its summit. It is lit from within, suggesting a night landscape, a fantastical de-materialized world’.