The Australian Institute of Architects announced that John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec will head the creative team for the Australian Pavilion at the upcoming 12th Venice International Architecture Biennale. The team’s two-part ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition will highlight three of Australia’s most interesting urban regions as they are…

If you’re in London this weekend, don’t miss The Termite Pavilion at Pestival, a mobile arts festival examining insect-human interactivity in bioscience, through paradigms of contemporary art, cinema, music and comedy as well as direct scientific demonstration and educational projects.

The Vienna-based architecture and design office Veech Media Architecture (VMA) was presented with the IF Communication Gold Award in the category Corporate Architecture for the trade fair pavilion design for Swarovski Enlightened TM. The pavilion Ambient Gem at the exclusive watch and jewelery show Baselworld…

As part of the Burnham Plan Centennial celebrations, the Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects triggers the visitors’ curiosity and encourages them to consider the future of Chicago. The design merges new formal concepts with the memory of Burnham’s bold, historic urban…

From dawn til dusk on Saturday, July 25, artists Heather and Ivan Morison led a crew of volunteers to build a remarkable temporary public artwork in Victoria Park in Bristol, UK. The pavilion-like timber structure, The Black Cloud, was commissioned by Situations at…

DIY Reykjavik is a Do-It-Yourself, non-profit design experiment initiated and designed by Arnaldur Scram and Simon Stigsby of New York-based design firm Shift, in collaboration with Ouida Angelica Biddle and Dr. Sigurður Gunnarsson.  The pavilion is a temporary installation situated in front of the Nordic House in Reykjavik,…

Back in March, the first rendering of the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London was released (Bustler reported). This morning, the press viewing took place for this temporary structure, designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA. The

It’s been almost one year ago, since the Commissioner General of the German Expo Pavilion, Dietmar Schmitz, signed the EXPO 2010 Shanghai participation contract between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Chinese organizers. The official ceremony was followed by a press conference, at which the German delegation presented the…

Zaha Hadid and Ben Van Berkel have unveiled their designs of temporary pavilions for Chicago’s Millenium Park. Pavilion by Ben van Berkel UNStudio, founded by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos – Amsterdam Alderman Brendan Reilly and the…

Trimo today announced that the winners of the Trimo Urban Crash international competition for students of architecture are Jan Ledwon and Alicja Chola from Poland. With 564 public votes (from visitors to the Trimo Urban Crash website) and a unanimous decision by the expert jury,…