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
Inside Ma Yansong’s design for the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam | Wallpaper
Fenix, a new international art museum dedicated to migration, has just opened in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Located in a historic 1923 shipping and storage warehouse, a new spiralling reflective double-helix staircase emerges from its heart. Source: Inside Ma Yansong’s design for the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam… Continue reading
Fenix, a Museum of Migration, Opens in Rotterdam – The New York Times
A new institution in the harbor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, combines art and artifacts to underscore that migrant journeys are part of a universal human experience. Source: Fenix, a Museum of Migration, Opens in Rotterdam – The New York Times… Continue reading
“Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China: 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia” officially opens in Italy – Macao SAR Government Portal
The “Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China: 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia” officially opened on 8 May 2025 in Venice, Italy. The exhibition, jointly curated by internationally renowned architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, showcases the coexistence of “parallel worlds” of Macao through the… Continue reading
“Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China” to be staged at “19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia” presents Macao’s multifaceted urban landscape
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government and implemented by the Macao Museum of Art, with the support of MGM, the “Parallel Worlds, Exhibition from Macao, China” will be held from 10 May to 23 November 2025 in Venice, Italy as one of the… Continue reading