Eleven key pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale
The 2023 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale kicked off last week. Here, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft selects the most interesting national pavilions from the event. More
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Turkey presents Ghost Stories of abandoned buildings at Venice Architecture Biennale
The Turkey pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale aims to draw attention to the numerous and varied abandoned buildings in the country and suggest ways in which they can be transformed. More
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Inverted neon house installed in Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
The Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale features an upside-down neon house as a comment on migration and to encourage visitors to "reflect on their own association with home". More
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Nordic Countries Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale highlights Sámi architecture
A nomadic library created by architect Joar Nango that contains 15 years of material highlighting Indigenous Sámi architecture forms the basis of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Estonian pavilion takes over rental apartment to challenge housing crisis
The Estonian pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale is a rental apartment with a live-in actor who is performing daily rituals to explore the challenges of home ownership. More
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Korean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale lets visitors explore "climate endgame"
A quiz show-style game that focuses on social, political and economic issues surrounding climate change is on show at the Korean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively on Dezeen. More
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Croatian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale explores one of Europe's largest wetlands
The "dynamic cohabitation of the wild, domesticated and human" is at the centre of the Croatian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which focuses on the Lonja wetlands and is unveiled exclusively on Dezeen. More
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Wall removed between Swiss and Venezuelan pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale to "dissolve borders"
The Swiss pavilion, which is is exclusively unveiled here, has removed a wall and several gates facing the adjacent Venezuelan pavilion for its Neighbours installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Brazil "fills entire pavilion with earth" at Venice Architecture Biennale
The Brazilian pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively on Dezeen, has been filled with earth for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Applied Arts Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale aims to "complicate the history of tropical modernism"
A 36-metre-long brise soleil has been covered with screens showing the colonial history of tropical modernism at the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Australia's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion "questions the relics of the British Empire"
The Australia pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is exclusively revealed here, features a copper reconstruction of the Empire Hotel in Queenstown. More
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Visitors' experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore's Venice pavilion
Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture's intangible qualities at the Singapore's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. More
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British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale encapsulates "the incredible diversity we experience in Britain everyday"
Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. More
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Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale "declares the death of the flushing toilet"
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More
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US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale urges visitors to question plastic dependency
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More
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Rising sea levels envisioned through eyes of a mermaid at Denmark's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
A model that imagines a mermaid's view of the rising sea levels features in Coastal Imaginaries exhibition at the Danish Pavilion, which is the first in a series of exclusive Venice Architecture Biennale online pavilion openings. More
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Tadao Ando unveils design for 2023 MPavilion
Geometric concrete forms and a reflective pool will define the 10th MPavilion in Australia, which is being designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. More
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Marc Fornes designs bulging coral-shaped pavilion for Louis Vuitton
Designer Marc Fornes presented an organically shaped pavilion at Milan design week to accompany the most recent Objets Nomades furniture collection by fashion house Louis Vuitton. More
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Grau Architects creates minimalist Tea House Pavilion from local spruce wood
Slovakian studio Grau Architects has used spruce, plywood and white fabric to build the lantern-like Tea House Pavilion, which offers a place to rest for visitors of Hrabinka Lake in the Czech Republic. More
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Shahed Saleem creates mosque pavilion as a "reconstruction of migrant histories"
London-based architect Shahed Saleem has created a colourful pavilion in the shape of a mosque, which has been erected at the V&A museum as part of this year's Ramadan Festival. More
