Princess Aiko Visits Foreign Pavilions at Osaka Expo

Newsfrom Japan Society May 9, 2025 19:59 (JST) Osaka, May 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, visited foreign pavilions at the ongoing 2025 World Exposition in the western city of Osaka on …

New pavilions officially open

Biennale 2025 Pavilions: we’ve seen them—here’s what we recommend

Here, intelligence is framed as an adaptive capacity, a smart response to a global condition in crisis. But one is inevitably led to ask: is adaptation really the right strategy for a planet—and a society—that have brought themselves to this point? At the …

‘PAVILIONS’ NEW CITY STANDARD FOR GAS STATION/RETAIL COMBO

Manteca is changing how commercial areas and neighborhoods mix. A prime example is how developments that envision a gas station, dining, convenience stores, and even car washes in predominately residential sections of the city are adding what planners dub …

Imagined Communities: National Pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

Should biennales be informative, reflective, focused on the object of architecture (in itself a contentious term) or serve as laboratories for experimentation and radical positions? This question reveals some of the tensions that underlie the very …

New John Rodda Sports Complex ready to open at Lake Crago Park

The City of Lakeland will dedicate the new John Rodda Sports Complex at Lake Crago Park during a ceremony on May 10 at 9 a.m. The new sports fields include three soccer fields with state of the art lighting.Ernst Peters/The LedgerThe City of Lakeland …

Dispatches from Venice: Nordic Pavilion

AT talks to… Kaisa Karvine and Teo Ala-Ruona; the curator and exhibitor behind “Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture”, the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title …

The Philippine Pavilion at Osaka Expo: Depicting a country without tomorrow?

THIS writer served for a time as secretary of the interagency committee that prepared the Philippine Pavilion at the World Exposition that took place in April-October 1992 in Seville, Spain. The pavilion was criticized by some Filipinos for presenting too …

Dispatches from Venice: Finnish Pavilion

AT talks to… the curators of the Finnish Pavilion, Ella Kaira and Matti Jänkälä, at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Photos Ugo Carmeni / Archinfo What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title of Intelligens: Natural. …

Dispatches from Venice: Belgian Pavilion

AT talks to…landscape architect Bas Smets, curator of the Belgian Pavilion “Building Biospheres” at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Photos Building Biospheres by Bureau Bas Smets with Stefano Mancuso, Flanders Architecture Institute 2025 © Michiel …