A review of our 5 favourite pavilions at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale – France, Denmark, Belgium, Germany, and Spain

Canal Café by Diller, Scofidio+Renfro is a striking eco-machine that draws water from the lagoon, purifies it and makes it available to produce typical Italian espresso

The heat island effect and how urban greenery can help us combat the effects of climate change in urban areas

‘Build of site’ will be a hybrid space in which the renovation works of the Danish Pavilion will be an integral part of the exhibition

The exhibition, entitled “Vivre avec/Living with’ will therefore be an ephemeral installation, placed en plein air between the French pavilion and the canal that runs across the gardens.

Located in a small graveryard in the Veneto countryside, the Brion Tomb is last architectural work by Carlo Scarpa and one of his greatest masterpieces

From 24 May to 2 June 2025 the 3rd edition of ‘Cremona Contemporanea-Art Week’ will see international contemporary artists exhibiting in teh city of Cremona near Milan

The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, entitled ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’, was presented to the press by curator Carlo Ratti on February 11, 2025

Created by Nicolas Bertoux and Cynthia Sah, the Arkad Foundation is an exceptional place of art between the beaches of Versilia and the Tuscan mountains

The Pietà is lit with iGuzzini’s new Sipario floodlight, a luminaire specifically designed to meet the lighting requirements of artworks, museum spaces, and cultural venues

Something strange is happening in Helsinki; in the same place, with the same forms, and the same intents, the vestiges of a never-built museum are emerging

A masterpiece of Italian Renaissance, the Villa Barbaro at Maser is a 16th-century building designed by Andrea Palladio and decorated by Paolo Veronese

Founded in 2006, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation is an institution in Paris dedicated to the history of Cinema housed in an iconic building by Renzo Piano

At the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition ‘Transform! Designing the Future of Energy’ focuses on how design can shape a society based on renewable energy

The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a museum in Paris supported by French luxury conglomerate LVMH and designed by Canadian-born American architect Frank O. Gehry

Futuro is an esperimental, egg-shaped, fiberglass house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the late 1960s

Kwaeε is a pyramid-shaped black-painted timber pavilion designed by Adjaye Associates for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

The best pavilions and exhibitions at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Lesley Lokko and open until November 2023