The selected Luxembourg Pavilion proposal frames housing inequality and ecological limits through a cross-contextual dialogue between Luxembourg and Vietnam, making it a timely architecture-and-housing story with international relevance.
Location
Luxembourg Pavilion, Arsenale, Sale d’Armi, 1st floor, Campo Della Tana 2169F, 30122 Venice, Italy
Organizations
Exutoire — Curatorial practice; visual identity; Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg — Commissioner; Luxembourg arts council; LUCA—Luxembourg Center for Architecture — Commissioner; Luxembourg architecture center; Marion Dessard — Photography
A same-day New York architecture opening with immediate attendance value, pairing two new installations with a materially inventive, demountable aluminum dome by MOS.
Location
Art Omi Sculpture & Architecture Park, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, New York
Organizations
Art Omi — Host and commissioning cultural organization; MOS — Architecture and installation design; Bollinger + Grohmann — Structural engineering
The exhibition’s 35th-anniversary edition pairs a large survey of Brazilian interiors with the temporary public occupation of a restored modernist office building in central Rio, tying design coverage to preservation and downtown revitalization.
Location
Edifício Aliança da Bahia, Rua Araújo Porto Alegre 36, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The festival's principal temporary architecture combines materially ambitious bamboo engineering with a politically explicit examination of protection, aggression and Britain's colonial relationship with India. Its short run ends September 20.
Location
Strand Aldwych near Somerset House and the Indian High Commission, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Studio Saar — Architect and co-designer; Atelier One — Structural engineer and co-designer; Ananya Singhal — Studio Saar managing partner and project design lead; Neil Thomas — Atelier One founder and structural-design lead; Node Company — Bamboo connector development collaborator; London Design Festival — Commissioning festival and presenter; Secure — Project supporter
Opening tomorrow for London Design Festival, the display offers a focused material and production story pairing six Japanese craft traditions with internationally recognized designers. A small-capacity hands-on workshop on September 14 creates an immediate attendance opportunity.
Location
Simon Sainsbury Gallery, Room 64b, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Craft x Tech — Exhibition producer; Tangent — Founding design studio; Victoria and Albert Museum — Host venue; London Design Festival — Festival partner
The exhibition pairs a consequential new institutional donation with a study of Herzog & de Meuron’s work in China, using models, drawings, samples and replicated archival vitrines to examine how architecture is documented and exhibited.
Location
Focus Gallery, Level 2, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Organizations
M+ — Organizing museum and collection recipient; Herzog & de Meuron — Featured architecture practice, exhibition collaborator and donor; West Kowloon Cultural District Authority — Museum district operator
The pavilion will frame housing’s overlooked shared spaces as democratic infrastructure, offering a timely curatorial argument about social isolation, community and the architecture of everyday coexistence.
Location
German Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy
Organizations
KAWAHARA KRAUSE ARCHITECTS — Lead curatorial practice; Technical University of Munich Architekturmuseum — Curatorial and academic collaborator through Andres Lepik; Leibniz University Hannover — Curatorial institution through Olga Cobuscean; RWTH Aachen University — Academic contributor; RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau — Academic contributor; State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart — Academic contributor
The exhibition connects Brazilian architectural history with a significant contemporary exhibition-design intervention in Shanghai. OPEN’s spatial interpretation of Bo Bardi’s work is strong enough for dedicated design coverage rather than a conventional exhibition listing.
Location
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Organizations
OPEN Architecture — Exhibition designer; Power Station of Art — Museum, client and venue
The pavilion extends architecture’s role beyond postwar reconstruction imagery to the immediate spatial needs of displaced people: stable housing, dignity, rest and the point at which survival can become living. The selection also gives an international platform to a volunteer-led adaptive-reuse housing initiative working during the war.
Location
Ukrainian Pavilion, 20th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Organizations
Ukrainian Institute — Commissioner and competition organizer; METALAB — Winning organization and project team; CO-HATY — Housing and adaptive-reuse initiative forming the basis of the pavilion; Ukrainian Urban Curators — CO-HATY team collaborator
A newly opened South Florida public-art project uses everyday transit infrastructure as exhibition space, offering a timely local story about design, emotional wellbeing, and the civic potential of advertising surfaces.
Location
Bus shelter advertising spaces, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
SaveArtSpace — Organizer and public-art platform; Leah Guzman — Curator; Shannon Scates — Selected artist
The yearlong program offers a focused reassessment of Santiago Calatrava’s first United States building and its influence on Milwaukee’s civic identity, beginning this week.
Location
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Organizations
Milwaukee Art Museum — Organizer and venue; Santiago Calatrava — Original architect of the Quadracci Pavilion
The project combines sound technology, adaptive cultural use and rare access to a major 1890 industrial structure closed to the public for 13 years. Free tickets and the short five-day run create an immediate attendance and commissioning opportunity.
Location
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London E1W 3SF, United Kingdom
Organizations
London Design Festival — Commissioning festival; L-Acoustics — Presenter and spatial-audio technology partner; Glass Castle Foundation — Venue custodian and host; Max Cooper — Commissioned multidisciplinary artist; Chris Watson — Sound artist and nature recordist
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