Comments on: Venice Architecture Biennale: Giardini pavilions

By: Katia

Katia — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:32:30 +0000

Meat-)))

By: Név*

Név* — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:21:45 +0000

#to matt:
Architecure is beyond.:D

By: unpopular

unpopular — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:25:14 +0000

I am reminded of this wonderful old song by Alanis Morisette:

…And isn’t it ironic…don’t you think
A little too ironic…and, yeah, I really do think…

By: Berliner

Berliner — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:20:31 +0000

The Biennale is the only venue, where architects can finally be artists. Fortunately they are not. Otherwise we would have to tolerate such misery more often than every other year.

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:32:08 +0000

lame.

By: shima

shima — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:34:48 +0000

i like German’s pavilion,
but it’s not about Architecture

By: Esa

Esa — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:07:43 +0000

the bridge (w/blue balloons) looks cheap and pointless and its blocking the path.

the shelter for god isnt good enough for the homeless, it looks like a turd on fire.

the people on deck chairs seem tired, lost and confused.

the people outside the italian pavillion are confused (nothing italian there).

the bench is ugly, i would like to here how the artist ended up with that as a finished exhibit i really could of designed something better in just a few minutes HONESTLY.

confetti on the floor with 2 poundland chairs WOW.

the installation by Ai Weiwei and Herzog de Meuron is mediocre as is the caravan and the german pavillion.

the Interbreeding Field by Li H Lu, the pipe line, the japanese and swiss pavillions i like they look interesing in their environments.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:45:34 +0000

Was the international community’s perception of this event to be a joke?

By: gaque

gaque — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:43:16 +0000

junya ishigami, looks cool stuff!
please more photos of this

By: jarmo k

jarmo k — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:13:28 +0000

this is an unbelievably unnecessary post… don’t you think it’s a kinda pointless to post one photo and saying e.g. “this is by the belgians”, without trying to explain what the installation represents?!

i’m 100% sure that all these projects are far more intelligent than what you could expect from this post…

for example, the estonians’ gas pipe seems at first like a stupid / weird idea, but that’s only when not knowing the political, environmental, ironical context of this installation…

that’s what the authors of the gas pipe installation from salto architectural office have to say:

“the installation comprises of an elevated section of real scale gas pipe along the public pathway in giardini, between the pavilions of russia and germany. the initial project of nord stream to build the pipeline into the baltic sea has been widely contested from ecological as well as geographical positions. the installation does not posit solutions but rather questions reality, posing and framing problems concerning mechanisms determining the contemporary physical environment. the installation highlights the spatial dimension of politics and the political dimensions of architecture.”

more about the nord stream gas pipe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

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and @ matt – architecture is everywhere!