The fifth edition of Bali's Jia Curated design festival features pavilions that aim to put nature at the centre, including structures built from rice husks and salt bricks. Here are eight of the most interesting. More about Eight pavilion highlights from Jia Curated 2026
Thousands of mirrors line the gently undulating ceilings of the VISTA Science Experience Centre in Austria, completed by Dutch architecture practice Studio Maks with engineering firm Bollinger + Grohmann. More about Studio Maks tops science pavilion in Austria with undulating mirrored roof
A vast grid of red scaffolding surrounds The Reclaimed Pavilion, a temporary events space in India designed by local studio Kanan Modi Associates using materials that were salvaged from local construction sites. More about Red scaffolding surrounds temporary pavilion in India
Local architecture studio DoDesign has completed the Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in Chongqing, China, creating a shelter with gridded metal walls that are filled with thousands of loose cedar logs. More about Rearrangeable cedar logs fill walls of Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in China by DoDesign
Architecture firms Studio Folk Architects and Raskl have built a timber-framed greenhouse, named The Veggery, at the Barbican Estate as part of the London Festival of Architecture. More about Barrel-vaulted community greenhouse built at the Barbican
Architect Liz Gálvez has created a pavilion in the courtyard of Los Angeles cultural organisations Materials & Applications and Craft Contemporary using cord and earthen blocks to showcase the potential of urban shade. More about Liz Gálvez "reframes" air conditioning with shade pavilion in Los Angeles
Mexican studio Lanza Atelier drew on contrasting British and Mesoamerican interpretations of the serpent when designing this year's Serpentine Pavilion, said the architects in an exclusive video interview with Dezeen. More about "The serpent is something that provides protection" says Lanza Atelier
Architecture studio Dum-Dum Laboratorio de Arquitectura Avanzada has created a waterside pavilion out of red painted wood that serves as an environmental classroom for the local community in Calbuco, Chile. More about Dum-Dum Lab constructs lakeside pavilion as environmental classroom
The Serpentine has installed a colourful, kinetic sculpture by Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto alongside this year's Lanza Atelier-designed Serpentine Pavilion in central London. More about Jesús Rafael Soto's bright yellow kinetic sculpture installed in London
Mexican studio Lanza Atelier has created A Serpentine, a snaking brick-walled structure for the 25th edition of the Serpentine Pavilion in London. More about Lanza Atelier designs snaking brick Serpentine Pavilion in London
Artist Theaster Gates and landscape designer Sara Zewde have designed a pavilion from recovered building materials that will be a community centre in a historic Black neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. More about Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston's Freedmen's Town
Architecture studio Lanza Atelier explains how the history of the Serpentine Pavilion informed the design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen. More about Lanza Atelier draws on historic "crinkle-crankle" walls for Serpentine Pavilion 2026
London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has constructed a wooden pavilion that is cube-shaped on the outside but spherical on the inside for Global Design Forum Istanbul. More about Waugh Thistleton builds "simple and repetitive" timber pavilion on grounds of historic Istanbul palace
Danish studio Spacon has completed a welcome pavilion for Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, featuring a multifunctional table with hidden pull-out display drawers and decorated stools. More about Spacon designs "practical and inviting" welcome pavilion for Copenhagen's Rosenborg Castle
Local studio LGA Architectural Partners has clad a bell-shaped pavilion in aluminium and included skylights that bring light into the centre of the structure, set in a public park in a dense residential area of Toronto, Ontario. More about LGA creates light wells for metal-clad Toronto park pavilion
US studio Safdie Architects has released designs for an interconnected set of pavilions in Oklahoma, USA, to serve as a cultural campus for the Cherokee Nation. More about Safdie Architects designs monumental Cherokee Heritage Center in Oklahoma
Sun, wind and rain will be encouraged to enter the towering timber pavilion that defines Dongjak Art Space, which architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein is designing in Seoul, South Korea. More about Christ & Gantenbein designs Seoul arts centre to have "direct relationship with the elements"
Brazilian architecture studios Superlimão, H2C Arquitetura and Vida de Vila have created experimental pavilions in Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo for the first edition of the Brazilian Architecture Biennial. More about Superlimão 3D-prints pavilion for inaugural Brazilian Architecture Biennial
US architecture studio Lake Flato and engineering and construction firm Structurecraft have experimented with dowel-laminated timber for a pavilion at the Mass Timber Conference in Oregon. More about Experimental pavilion in Oregon "challenges the rectilinear logic" of mass timber
Local art studio PichiAvo used wood and paper to create a pavilion based on an Ancient Greek temple, which was set ablaze for the Fallas celebrations in Valencia. More about PichiAvo builds wooden temple to burn down for Valencia's Fallas festival