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 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
