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
Glenstone is reopened, with two new shows to make sense of America – The Washington Post
The Pavilions at Glenstone, the private art museum in Potomac, Maryland, is open again after an 18-month closure. The Thomas Phifer-designed building, the museum’s architectural centerpiece, appears from above as a cluster of giant cinder blocks surrounding a tropical-looking water court and set into a hill. Problems with… Continue reading
Expo 2025 opens in Osaka | Arquitectura Viva
The Universal Exposition of 2025 has opened in Osaka, to run through 13 October. This is Osaka’s second hosting of the event, after Expo ’70, and the theme this time is ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives.’A work of Sou Fujimoto, a huge wooden structure in the shape… Continue reading
At Tippet Rise in Montana, Art and Nature Enhance Each Other – The New York Times
At the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, the philanthropists Cathy and Peter Halstead are creating a new model of sculpture park where the arts and nature can enhance each other. Source: At Tippet Rise in Montana, Art and Nature Enhance Each Other – The New York… Continue reading