Venice Arch Biennale 2010

Balancing Act by Ensamble Studio

Balancing Act Balancing Act by Ensamble Studio photograph by Roland Halbe

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: two enormous girders slice through the Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale thanks to Madrid architect Antón García-Abril of Ensamble Studio. More »

Tra le Briccole di Venezia at Riva 1920

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Philippe Starck, Aldo Spinelli and Carlo Colombo (above) are among the latest designers to create pieces for Riva 1920 made of reclaimed oak mooring posts from the Venetian lagoon. More »

Cloudscapes by Tetsuo Kondo Architects
and Transsolar

Cloudscapes by Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More »

1:1 at the Romanian Pavilion

1:1 at the Romanian Pavilion

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Romanian Pavilion in the Giardini di Castello at the Venice Architecture Biennale are invited to experience the population density of Bucharest, one at a time. More »

A.WAY by J. Mayer H.

A.WAY by J. Mayer H.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Berlin architect J. Mayer H. has won the inaugural Audi Urban Future Award with his concept for a city where digital information is continually exchanged between people, their environment and their cars. More »

The Russia Factory by Sergei Tchoban,
Pavel Khoroshilov and Grigory Revzin

Russian pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale presents possibilities for the re-use of vacant factories in former industrial towns across Russia. More »

Golden Lion award winners announced
at Venice Architecture Biennale


Dezeenwire:
the Golden Lion award winners at the Venice Architecture Beinnale were announced at a ceremony on Saturday. The Kingdom of Bahrain was awarded for the best National Participation, while Junya Ishigami + Associates received the Golden Lion for best project in the Exhibition People meet in Architecture. See press release below. More »

Emergency Exit by Agnieszka Kurant
and Aleksandra Wasilkowska

Emergency Exit by Agnieszka Kurant and Aleksandra Wasilkowska

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: visitors to the Polish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale launch themselves off a pile of birdcages into a sea of artificial clouds. More »

Modern Primitives by Aranda\Lasch

Modern Primitives by Aranda\Lasch

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: New York studio Aranda\Lasch have installed a collection of seating that’s made up of foam pyramids at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More »

Villa Frankenstein by muf architecture/art

Villa Frankenstein by muf architecture/art

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a wooden 1:10 scale model representing a portion of the London 2012 Olympic stadium has been installed at the British Pavilion directed by muf architecture/art for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More »

Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley

Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Toronto architect Philip Beesley has installed a forest of acrylic fronds that move as though breathing inside the Canada pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens this week.  More »

Casa Areia by Aires Mateus Architects

Casa Areia by Aires Mateus Architects

Dezeen are in Venice for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 where Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »