Baxendale's Venice outdoor playground made permanent for length of biennale
A colourful interactive frame that Baxendale created as part of Scotland's contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 has been saved from being dismantled. More
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Venice Biennale project sees derelict 1980s flat transformed back into family home
A social-housing apartment that stood empty for five years is becoming a family home again, after being refurbished for a Venice Architecture Biennale show. More
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Watch our talk with Bjarke Ingels and Hans Ulrich Obrist on museum architecture live from Venice
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels speaks to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about the architecture of museums, in this talk Dezeen hosts with Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet in Venice. More
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Watch our talk with David Chipperfield live from Casa Flora in Venice
British architect David Chipperfield speaks to Dezeen editor Amy Frearson about his relationship with Venice in this exclusive talk at Casa Flora to coincide with the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Philippe Starck restores time-worn interiors of the Quadri restaurant in Venice
French designer Philippe Starck has worked alongside Venetian artisans to restore this 18th-century restaurant, refreshing its upholstered walls, chandeliers and decadent furnishings. More
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David Chipperfield to restore historic palace on Venice's Piazza San Marco
British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice's Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. More
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12 must-see installations and exhibitions at the Venice Art Biennale 2017
With the 57th edition of the Venice Art Biennale now open to the public, managing editor Olivia Mull selects some of the best design-led exhibitions, spatial installations and pavilion takeovers. More
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Hallmarks of traditional Venice reinvented in Casa Flora holiday flat by Diego Paccagnella
More than 20 Italian companies produced custom furniture for the Casa Flora holiday apartment, which aims to bring contemporary design to the canals of Venice. More
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OMA completes restoration of Venice's Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Dutch architecture firm OMA has restored the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, adding new entrances and wood-panelled escalators to turn the 16th-century building into a department store (+ slideshow). More
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Forests of Venice pavilion offers a peaceful retreat from the Biennale crowds
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Swedish studios Kjellander + Sjöberg and Folkhem have installed a wooden pavilion between the Venice Biennale venues, in tribute to the 10 million trees used to build the city's foundations. More
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RAAAF plans to wrap Venice's Giardini pavilions beneath a layer of fabric
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: pavilions that host exhibitions for the Venice Biennale are boarded up for six months every year, and Dutch studio RAAAF thinks a better solution would be to cover each one with a veil of fabric. More
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Call for entries to University Island competition 2016
Dezeen promotion: entries are now open for architects and designers to submit ideas for reviving a forgotten island in the Venetian Lagoon by transforming it into a university campus (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Macola converts abandoned factory into homes in Venice
These homes designed by Studio Macola sit within the shell of an old factory in Venice, which still features a trio of tall industrial chimneys (+ slideshow). More
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Act_Romegialli damp-proofs a Venetian home against the rising tides of the city's waterways
A concrete basin constructed inside this small apartment in Venice is designed to fend off flooding from the city's waterways. More
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Denton Corker Marshall's "mysterious black box" is Australia's new Venice biennale pavilion
Architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). More
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Doug Wheeler creates illusion of infinite white space inside Venetian palazzo
Visitors to Venice's Palazzo Grassi become immersed within a space that appears to have no boundaries in an installation created by American artist Doug Wheeler in the gallery's atrium (+ slideshow). More
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Heinz Mack installs towering golden columns on a Venetian island
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: one of the grandest installations created for the Venice biennale is a grid of seven-metre-high golden columns by German artist Heinz Mack (+ slideshow). More
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Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles installed at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: a monumental installation of interconnected bicycle frames by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been installed in the riverside courtyard of Palazzo Franchetti in Venice. More
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Growing a "giant artificial reef" could stop Venice sinking
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our interview with Rachel Armstrong, the senior University of Greenwich lecturer explains how a synthetic "limestone-like" support structure could be grown underneath Venice to prevent the city's foundations being eroded. More
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Venice theme park proposed for abandoned landfill island
News: an island in the Venetian Lagoon used as a landfill site could be transformed into a huge theme park under controversial plans by Italian fairground designers Zamperla. More