Bookshelf: Spring 2025
American Modern is not a guidebook; it’s a well-researched and highly readable monograph that explores the complex economic, political, and social backstory that’s usually missing from standard architectural narratives. It’s illuminating to learn, for instance, that the Miller family’s civic generosity was, as Shaw writes, “borne out of a wholly… Continue reading
Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Opens at Kensington Gardens | Architectural Record
The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public in London this weekend. Named A Capsule in Time, it is the 25th structure in a series that began with a Zaha Hadid creation in 2000. Continue reading
„A Capsule in Time“ von Marina Tabassum
The 24th Serpentine Pavilion will open on 6 June 2025 in Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London. Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), are responsible for this year’s design. “A Capsule in Time” aims to stimulate a dialogue between the permanence and transience of… Continue reading
From Zaha Hadid to today, 25 years of Serpentine Pavilions – Domus
Together with Marina Tabassum, architect of the Serpentine Pavilion 2025, we explored the meaning and history of this iconic temporary architecture which, since 2000 with Zaha Hadid, has attracted the attention of the whole world to Hyde Park in London every year. Source: From Zaha Hadid to… Continue reading
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is extravagant and impressive — but where’s the fun?
Twenty-five years ago, Zaha Hadid designed a tent outside the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens. Its white fabric roof was folded into a geometry of irregular triangles, swooping and lifting. It was quite a modest thing, a one-off commission for an acclaimed architect who had at that… Continue reading
Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is completed | Wallpaper
The new pavilion is ready for its public opening on 6 June; we toured the structure and spoke to its architect, Marina Tabassum Source: Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is completed; join our tour of it | Wallpaper… Continue reading
Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Explores Climate & Community
Architect Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion is a meditation on shelter, climate and community—a place for gathering, reflection, and imagining new ways of being together in public space. Source: Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Explores Climate & Community… Continue reading
In Venice, You Can Sip On Espresso Made From the City’s Canals
At this year’s Biennale Architettura (Architecture Biennale) in Venice, visitors can grab their Italian espressos from an unexpected source: the city’s canals. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the Canal Cafe is an innovative and uniquely site-specific project from the architecture firm behind such iconic landmarks as the… Continue reading
Rome – Las Vegas | Haller Brun | Iwan Baan | D&AD Awards 2025 Pencil Winner | Photographic | D&AD
The cities of Rome and Las Vegas commonly sit at opposite ends of what architecture represents: whereas the former capital of the Roman Empire is perceived as ancient, proper and eternal, Sin City is described as flashy, vulgar and fake. The photographs of Iwan Baan capture the atmosphere… Continue reading
MAD Architects tops Fenix with a reflective, metallic staircase
A new architecturally expressive, adaptive reuse project has been completed at Katendrecht, a historic Rotterdam port neighborhood. MAD Architects is behind the design for Fenix, an art institution founded in 2016 that centers migration. The venue is contextual: Rotterdam is today home to over 170 nationalities, thanks in… Continue reading
Celebrating the Legacy and Growth of Milan’s Bosco Verticale | Architectural Record
Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale, in Milan, is a beacon of biodiversity as much as a residential complex. More than 90 species of plants, trees, and shrubs grow on the facades of its two towers, and, when it opened in 2014, the project was hailed as a visionary approach… Continue reading
Ma Yansong’s first museum in Europe is a ‘metaphor’ for migration – Fast Company
Ma Yansong is gesturing at a spiraling staircase inside the atrium of a building. The founder of MAD Architects—the Chinese firm behind the soon-to-open Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to inaugurate the opening of his first museum in Europe, and he… Continue reading