Croatia's much anticipated floating Pavilion doesn't make it to port, while the rebiennale creates a rogue pavilion out of the scraps of past biennales. A group of Croatian architecture practices collaboratively designed Brod / The Ship / La Nave: a floating pavilion for Croatia, to be towed... View full entry
Participatory build projects and natural architecture ... Some wonderful seating elements constructed from simple wood slats dot the Giardini, reminiscent of Enzo Mari's “autoprogettazione.” The chairs have been made by Raumlaborberlin, who have enabled public participation by laying... View full entry
Serbia makes a curious space for seesaws and plants on wheels, Greece builds an ark to carry their old seeds to new cultures. Serbia's Seesaw Play-grow "extends an invitation to you and us, the timeless seesawers." A lovely little playground ... In the Greek Pavilion's Old Seeds for New Cultures... View full entry
Vacancies, voids and squatting the pavilions of Venice. The Netherlands Pavilion (Vacant NL) explores the thousands of buildings in the Netherlands that lie vacant, in a call for the “intelligent reuse of temporarily vacant buildings around the world in promoting creative enterprise.&rdquo... View full entry
Real quick: The Poland Pavilion ... I heard some ankles were broken already! Real quick: The Poland Pavilion ... I heard some ankles were broken already! "The activity materializes the need and desire to lose control, to free oneself both physically and metaphorically from the current system; from... View full entry
Je t’adore, The British Pavilion, designed/directed by the art/architecture collective muf, who happen to have their hands in all of London these days, particularly anything involving East London regeneration with a view towards the 2012 Olympics. Je t’adore, The British Pavilion... View full entry
Hi Archinect, Writing from Venice, getting endlessly lost in the city and feeling quite inspired by this year’s architecture biennale. Let me know if there are things you want me to see and document, or people you want to hear from. Some first thoughts below ... Hi Archinect, Writing from... View full entry