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.

Carlos Ramos Pavilion Oporto: Álvaro Siza

Carlos Ramos Pavilion Oporto: Álvaro Siza

Built to solve the lack of working conditions and space for the development of educational activity of the newly created FAUP and limited by the constraints of a very modest budget, the Carlos Ramos Pavilion would become a reference in Alvaro Siza work

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse, Nebuta Festival, Aomori, Japan – design by molo + d/dt Arch + Frank la Rivière Architects inc – In August, Nebuta Festival (origin 8th century) fever descends upon Aomori: paper lantern like floats showing warriors from Japanese and Chinese history and myth in dramatic poses often showing battle scenes.

Fragile Shelter Sapporo, Hokkaido Building

Hidemi Nishida is a Sapporo-based artist, designer. The “Fragile Shelter” is one of his works of the “Shelter series”. This winter temporary shelter leads people to gather, have a party, stay, feel something and so on in the white woods.

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.

Treehugger pavilion, Koblenz architecture design

Treehugger Koblenz Pavilion Building

“Treehugger” is a pavilion exhibited at the National Garden Show (BuGA) 2011 in Koblenz, Germany designed by ‘one fine day: office for architectural design’, led by Prof. Holger Hoffmann with a student team at FH Trier

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion Montreal

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion Montreal

“This addition will double the space available for our collection of Canadian art. There’ll be space for 600 works on six floors,” said MMFA director Nathalie Bondil at a recent media preview.