Design
Design
Doug Aitken creates kaleidoscopic catwalk for Saint Laurent show in Venice
American artist Doug Aitken has designed a plant-filled mirrored installation for the Saint Laurent menswear spring summer 2021 fashion show in Venice. More
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Canada blurs fact and fiction with green screen-wrapped Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion
Montréal studio TBA has wrapped the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in a green screen so that it can be replaced digitally with other buildings. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Dirk Somers creates fictional city from fifty recently completed Flemish buildings
Dirk Somers, founder of Antwerp studio Bovenbouw Architectuur, created a "fictional, yet recognisable" Flemish city named Composite Presence for the Belgian Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Ten pavilions to visit at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale
We've rounded up ten pavilions from the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale that respond to this year's theme of How will we live together? More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Germany's 2038 pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale puts QR codes on walls of empty building
Germany has divided opinion at the Venice Architecture Biennale by inviting visitors to wander around an empty pavilion and experience digital content via QR codes. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Visitors share their impressions of "interesting and courageous" Venice Architecture Biennale
With the Venice Architecture Biennale now open to the public, attendees have given their verdict on the first major cultural event to take place since the pandemic began. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
Dutch Pavilion questions the premise of Venice Biennale with Who Is We? exhibit
In response to the Venice Architecture Biennale's theme How will we live together?, architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon have answered with another question in the Dutch Pavilion: Who is we? More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale examines threats to public space
London studio Unscene Architecture explores how pubs, high streets and green spaces in the UK can be made more inclusive in the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale
The pandemic has "re-imagined how we can exhibit" says Venice Architecture Biennale curator Hashim Sarkis
The Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. Installing it during the pandemic has forced participants to work in a more collaborative and sustainable way in line with the event's key themes, according to curator Hashim Sarkis. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale postponed until 2021
The Venice Architecture Biennale has announced that this year's event will be postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus, with the scheduled Art Biennale being pushed back to 2022. More
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Pablo Dorigo Sempere turns Venice canal algae into postage stamps
Spanish-Italian designer Pablo Dorigo Sempere has extracted algae polluting the Venetian Lagoon and used it to make paper postage stamps for the Italian city. More
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Salone del Mobile to evaluate situation as Milan, Venice and much of northern Italy sealed off due to coronavirus
Bosses of Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair will meet this week to "assess the situation" as Lombardy and several northern Italian regions were locked down due to the coronavirus outbreak. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 postponed due to coronavirus
Breaking news: the start of the Venice Architecture Biennale has been delayed from May to August due to disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale to go ahead despite coronavirus outbreak
The Venice Architecture Biennale will open to the public on 23 May despite Italy's coronavirus outbreak, organisers confirmed today as they unveiled details of the programme. More
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Bêka & Lemoine's latest film shows Venice's worst flood in half a century
Architectural filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have released footage from a film showing the impact of flooding in Venice. More
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Hotel Il Palazzo Experimental designed to be "deeply rooted" in its Venetian setting
Marble furnishings, lagoon-coloured walls and arched doorways are among the features that Dorothée Meilichzon has incorporated in the interiors of this Venice hotel, which is meant to mirror its surroundings. More
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Santiago Calatrava fined for "gross negligence" of Ponte della Costituzione design
An Italian court has fined Santiago Calatrava €78,000 for negligence during the design of the glass and steel Ponte della Costituzione over the Grand Canal in Venice. More
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"Locals in Venice are feeling increasingly left out of the conversation"
As David Chipperfield begins the next stage of the restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie on Piazza San Marco in Venice, James Imam asks if architects can save cities straining to deal with increasing tourist numbers. More
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Ten unmissable installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2019
With the 58th Venice Art Biennale now underway, design reporter Natashah Hitti picks out the exhibitions, pavilions and installations that are most likely to appeal to architects and designers, from giant hands to an artificial beach. More
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Virgil Abloh presents sinking furniture at Carpenters Workshop Gallery show in Venice
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh addresses the issue of rising sea-levels in an installation of sinking furniture on show during this year's Venice Art Biennale. More
