To be housed in the 1460 armoury building Sale d’Armi in Arsenale, Venice, this year’s Singapore Pavilion responds to the 18th International Architecture Exhibition’s theme — The Laboratory of The Future — but taking the form of a giant evolving machine that seeks to understand our true desires for how we live in the city.
Tristan Wong (SJB) and Jefa Greenaway (Greenaway Architects and Academic) have been announced as creative directors for the 2020 Venice Biennale, alongside a team of collaborators.
The Pool is proving a hit at the 2016 Architecture Biennale as visitors lap up a deliberately different approach to architectural storytelling.
The theme for this year’s Biennale, ‘Reporting From the Front’, set by Creative Director Alejandro Aravena, sought projects that tackled issues like segregation, inequalities, peripheries, natural and social disasters, housing shortages, migration, informality and communities. Hahna Busch reports from the front.