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For the occasion of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, The Architect’s Newspaper organized an event at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, a 16th century residence restored in the late 1950s by Carlo Scarpa and currently home to a Venetian historical society and cultural center. The events were a collaboration with Stratosferica, an Italian nonprofit that promotes radical thinking about cities. The event, titled Critically Yours, was at once a 20 year anniversary party for The Architect’s Newspaper, a symposium on the role of criticism in architecture today, and a celebration of the life of founding editor-in-chief William “Bill” Menking. The event began with Critically…

The Australian Pavilion has installed a suspended, copper structure that mimics the Empire Hotel of Queenstown where the two real Queenstowns are reimagined as a fictional narrative at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.Called Unsettling Queenstown, the pavilion, curated by Anthony Coupe, Ali Gumillya Baker, Julian Worrall, Emily Paech and Sarah Rhodes, aims to show “the despoliations of colonialism and extractivism” in a particular clarity. On the other hand, the pavilion translates the outlines of an alternative future are being formed within its spaces.The 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale has opened to the public on Saturday 20 May and will be on view…

The Brazil Pavilion and Palestine-based architecture studio DAAR have been awarded Golden Lions at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale for the best national participation and participant in the 18th exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future.The awards were presented at the awards ceremony on Sunday May 20th, 2023 at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of Venice Architecture Biennale.Image © Matteo de Mayda, courtesy La Biennale di VeneziaThe international jury of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition is composed by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, the president of the jury, the Palestinian architect and curator Nora Akawi, the American director and curator of The Studio Museum…

Steven Holl Architects (SHA) may be on the hook for over $10 million of upgrades at Hunters Point Library if the City of New York can win a lawsuit it filed last week. In New York State Supreme Court, the city sued SHA, Steven Holl, and SHA senior partner Christopher McVoy in a suit that alleged that the firm did not comply with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and breached its contract with the city’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC).  The branch of the Queens Public Library, which opened in Queens’s Long Island City neighborhood in 2019, received…

Beyond the main library within the City College of New York’s Rafael Viñoly Architects–designed Spitzer School of Architecture building, a cobbled-together space composed of a former storage area and the visual resources room has become the Sorkin Reading Room. Windows overlooking the landscape have vinyl letters that read: “Fish are symmetrical but only until they wiggle. Our effort is to measure the space between the fish and the wiggle. This is the study of a lifetime.” Designed by Elisabetta Terragni with red-carpeted floors and a long seminar table alongside KEEP bookshelves designed by Keller Easterling, the Sorkin Reading Room houses…

Last week the Graham Foundation announced its 2023 Grants to Individuals, awarding 64 grants to 92 individuals. The funded projects range from publications and research to exhibitions, films, podcasts, and other digital initiatives and public programs that embody the Chicago-based foundation’s mission to promote innovative and interdisciplinary ideas that contribute critical perspectives on architecture and design. These new grantees join the ranks of over 67 years worth of projects that have been supported by the Graham Foundation, including over 5,000 projects by individuals and organizations with a collective $43 million in direct support. This year’s group was chosen from among…

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Brazil was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale for its showcase Terra (Earth).  Curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares and commissioned by José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Terra investigated conceptions of Brazil’s national image in relation to earth, in both a literal and cosmic sense, through lenses of race and gender. Ultimately, the curators sought to “think of Brazil as earth,” looking not only to the memories it contains, but to the future as well, to reconsider architecture’s position in “facing the…

Rockefeller Center stands as a storied fixture in New York City history, with cultural institutions including Radio City Music Hall and its famous Rockettes within its confines. A new popup from clothing brand SKIMS, a retail venture from Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede, has taken up temporary residence just outside of the entertainment complex. The retail space draws on the brand’s own offerings while also pulling from aspects of the New York City cityscape. The popup is a new iteration of SKIMS’s prior retail forms and a continuation of the brand’s longstanding creative relationship with Willo Perron of Perron-Roettinger. Perron again realized…

Although it feels like the New York design scene has been celebrating for well over a week, the official start of the annual NYCxDesign celebration was yesterday, May 18th. To kick things off, Chelsea art and design gallery Tuleste Factory opened its doors for an afterparty to host its largest-ever exhibition, Harmonious Proportions. Founded by sisters Celeste and Satu Greenberg in 2018, Tuleste Factory represents an impressive roster of designers and makers who deliver fun and flare through a mixed bag of mediums, both physical and digital. The evening buzzed with merriment as the influx of global creatives came together…