Curator Justin McGuirk tells us why his Golden Lion-winning installation about a community living in a vertical slum in Caracas could set an example for new forms of urban housing, in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about "Why should the poor live in slums if there are empty offices in the city?" - Justin McGuirk
Every room inside this concrete house in Kyoto by Torafu Architects is accessible for a resident in a wheelchair (+ slideshow). More about House in Kitaoji by Torafu Architects
Visitors to Kuwait's pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale can lie back on cushions around a faded patchwork of defunct masterplans, while recorded sounds and voices echo down from above. More about Kuwait Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Portuguese architects Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura have created a pair of installations in the Giardino delle Vergini for the Venice Architecture Biennale (+ slideshow). More about Giardino delle Vergini Installations by Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
A timber tunnel shaped like a snake - with a bulge to suggest an ingested mouse - provides perfect conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. More about Puff Adder at Babylonstoren by Patrice Taravella and Terry de Waal
Dezeen Wire: Rem Koolhaas of OMA is tipped to be director of the next Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Among those speculating on Twitter was assistant director for the 2012 biennale Kieran Long, who tweeted "it's certain to be Rem Koolhaas next time. Done deal say my sources." More about Rem Koolhaas tipped to be director of next Venice Architecture Biennale
Dezeen Wire: architect Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au has launched a scathing attack on the Venice Architecture Biennale, claiming it's "no longer about lively discussion and criticism of topics in contemporary architecture" but places too much importance on celebrity. More about Venice Architecture Biennale "cannot get any worse" says Wolf D Prix
Architects Herzog & de Meuron have carved some of the spaces of their unfinished Elbphilharmonie concert hall from layered blocks of foam and suspended them from the ceiling of the Arsenale for the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Dezeen Wire: "we're advocating other UK architects to design on water," architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. More about UK should "learn from the Netherlands" and build floating housing - Alex de Rijke
Indian architect Anupama Kundoo brought a team of Indian craftsman to Italy to construct a replica of a house inside the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Wall House by Anupama Kundoo at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Curtains glide along tracks on the ceiling to constantly reconfigure the space inside the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Dutch Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Justin McGuirk (pictured above, holding the award), photographer Iwan Bann and the Urban-Think Tank team of Venezuela (also pictured above) have won the Golden Lion for best project at the Venice Architecture Biennale for their Torre David/Gran Horizonte installation and cafe. More about Justin McGuirk, Urban-Think Tank and Iwan Baan win best project at Venice Architecture Biennale
Dezeen Wire: the Japanese Pavilion curated by Toyo Ito (pictured above) has been awarded best pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Japan awarded best pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Every surface inside the top floor of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is covered in QR codes, which visitors decode using tablet computers to explore ideas for a new Russian city dedicated to science. More about Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Slideshow feature: Dezeen architecture reporter Amy Frearson selects her top five pavilions from the Giardini at the Venice Architecture Biennale in this slideshow, including the shape-shifting Dutch pavilion and an earthquake in an empty room. More about Dezeen's top five pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Architect Norman Foster (above) has designed the entrance to the Corderie Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the names of generations of architects, critics, designers, landscape architects and planners are projected over the floor, columns and visitors. More about Gateway by Norman Foster at Venice Architeture Biennale 2012
Here are some photos of Zaha Hadid's installation in the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale, comprising a huge pleated metal funnel. More about Arum by Zaha Hadid Architects at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Dezeen is in Venice this week for the preview of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs until 25 November.
See our photos from the first day on Facebook, see all our preview stories here and watch our interview with director of the biennale David Chipperfield here, in which he urges the profession to address “the 99.99% of the rest of the world which architects are not dealing with” in order to avoid becoming merely “urban decorators.”
Above image: Vessel by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects in the Arsenale
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Australian studio CplusC Architectural Workshop has extended a house in a Sydney suburb so that it looks like a doll's house with the back wall taken off (+ slideshow). More about Castlecrag Residence by CplusC Architectural Workshop
Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry (pictured above, left) is designing the new campus for social media giant Facebook, which claims it will be the largest open-plan office in the world. More about Frank Gehry designs new Facebook headquarters