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Aspire Westjet Lounge / MRDK

August 09

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Architects: MRDK
Area: 2800 ft²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen, Charlotte Fabrics, Design Within Reach, Ege Carpets, Ramacieri Soligo, +1Suite 22-1

Tini Menorca / delavegacanolasso

August 09

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Architects: delavegacanolasso
Area: 59 m²
Year: 2023

From Little Venice to Venice: The Narrative of Carlo Scarpa’s Venezuela Pavilion

Subscriber Access | August 09

Nestled amongst the plethora of grandiose and carefully crafted national pavilions in the Giardini della Biennale in the Italian city of Venice is one pavilion by the city's perhaps most well-known modern architect. Sited between the pavilions of Russia and Switzerland is the Venezuela Pavilion, by architect Carlo Scarpa. In many ways, the structure typifies the design approach of its architect but has its idiosyncrasies. Built for Europe's most important biennial art exhibition, it is a member of a cohort of Modernist pavilions that came after the earlier, more classicist pavilions. This is its story.

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Paradise SE11 Mass Timber Office / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

August 09

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Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Area: 7700 m²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Stora Enso

Arenli Community / Atelier Li Xinggang

August 09

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Architects: Atelier Li Xinggang
Area: 69874 m²
Year: 2022
Professionals: The Third Construction CO.,LTD of China Construction Eighth Engineering Division, Chengdu Sina Yulian Architectural Design Co., Ltd.

Reinterpretation of National Museum of Prehistory / Ja-Sheng Chen Architects

August 08

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Architects: Ja-Sheng Chen Architects
Area: 1549 m²

Tecorral House / Claudia Rodriguez + Louise Rouzaud

August 08

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Architects: Claudia Rodriguez, Louise Rouzaud
Area: 380 m²
Year: 2024

(RE)INVENTION: Brazil Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale / Plano Coletivo

August 08

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Architects: Plano Coletivo
Area: 140 m²
Year: 2025

Reconstruction of a Reconstructed House / Kilo / Honc

August 08

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Architects: Kilo / Honc
Area: 147 m²
Year: 2024
Manufacturers: Fritz Hansen, Kludi, Cinca, Cortizo, Element System, +4FLOS, JØTUL, Koło, Mawa Design-4

Designing with Kids: 5 Participatory Projects that Empower Young Users

August 08

A good design should be adapted to the user's needs, and participatory design aims to reduce the distance between architects and those for whom the project is made. In this sense, projects for children that welcome them as central actors in the design process demonstrate how the potential of active listening and co-designing is reflected in spaces adapted to a smaller scale and to an audience in a phase of intense learning.

Whether they are kindergartens, schools, community centers, or public spaces, participatory projects with children show how the design process can be an enriching exchange for both sides. On the one hand, children can learn about materials, scales, decision-making, and develop spatial awareness. On the other hand, the architects responsible for making the desires and needs of the young users concrete can learn to exercise sensitivity and imagination and recognize a different worldview focused on discovery. All of this is possible through listening and open dialogue between different age groups.

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CSF Center for People With Disabilities / Rizvi Hassan

August 08

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Architects: Rizvi Hassan
Area: 1115 m²
Year: 2024

Colombia Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025 Presents a Dynamic "Ice Cube" Playing With Form and Light

August 08

The Colombia Pavilion at the Expo Osaka 2025 adopts the theme "ICE CUBE," inspired by the scene in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude where a young boy encounters ice for the first time. Translating this literary reference into built form, the pavilion presents a facade of translucent cubes set at varying angles, creating a sense of movement and articulation. Designed by MORF Inc., with Karim Chahal as Project Director and Ko Oono as Principal Architect, the exterior is composed of semi-transparent polycarbonate panels integrated with color-controlled lighting, allowing the facade to transform in appearance throughout the day and night.

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Desert Geode Residence / Kendle Design Collaborative

August 08

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Architects: Kendle Design Collaborative
Area: 7200 ft²
Year: 2025
Manufacturers: Subzero/Wolf, Fleetwood , Listone Giordano, Mesastone Block, Western States Metal Roofing

"Can We Think of a Building as a Microclimate?": In Conversation With Bas Smets and Dennis Pohl About the Belgian Pavilion in Venice

August 08

The Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 presents a prototype that integrates landscape architecture into architectural interiors. Designed by Bas Smets in collaboration with Stefano Mancuso, the exhibition transforms the pavilion into a microclimate modeled after the understory of a subtropical forest, creating an indoor jungle that actively regulates temperature and humidity. The curatorial concept, supported by the Flanders Architecture Institute and its director, Dennis Pohl, promotes landscape thinking as an active design force rather than exterior decoration. In this video interview from Venice, Bas Smets and Dennis Pohl explain to ArchDaily editors how the project positions architecture as a platform for climate resilience and proposes a shift in design paradigms, from static images to evolving, living processes.

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From Acapulco to Copenhagen: 8 Projects Exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2025 Reclaiming Existing Architecture for Regenerative Cities

Subscriber Access | August 08

This curated selection of projects from the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale explores regeneration as a deliberate, intelligent process rooted in the specific conditions of a place. For decades, the Biennale has been a testing ground for architecture's most urgent ideas, allowing designers, researchers, and institutions to present visions that address evolving environmental, cultural, and social challenges. This year's projects reveal how regeneration, whether of an entire coastal city, a disused industrial site, or a neglected public space, requires more than replacing the old with the new. It calls for a precise reading of existing contexts, the preservation of embedded knowledge, and the careful integration of contemporary needs.

The eight selected works show that regeneration can emerge from multiple starting points: reactivating heritage through adaptive reuse, restoring ecological systems as part of urban planning, developing open and modular strategies for social housing renewal, or layering technological innovation onto historically rooted practices. While the scale of intervention varies, each project demonstrates a sensitivity to what is already there and existing, be it material resources, urban patterns, or cultural memory, and a willingness to work with these assets as catalysts for transformation. Together, they suggest that regeneration must start somewhere, and that its success lies in balancing innovation with the intelligence of what already exists.

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