These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

Entitled ‘The Laboratory of the Future’, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale has caused much controversy. Many defined it as “an architecture biennial without architecture” and deplored an excessive ...

Like that at the Giardini, also the core exhibition in the Corderie of the Arsenale opens with a large introductory installation, conceived by Venice Architecture Biennale director Alejandro Aravena, ...

Originating from a collaboration between architect Mario Cucinella – MCA and 3D-printer manufacturer WASP, TECLA is a prototype eco-house built near Ravenna, northern Italy, entirely made by 3D ...

In the Twi language, one of the most spoken Ghanaian dialects, the term Kwaeε means “forest”. That’s why David Adjaye’s Kwaeε wood pavilion, installed at the Venice Arsenal for the 18th Architecture ...

While approaching the Tate Modern after crossing the Thames by the Millenium Bridge, a visitor can hardly imagine what is currently happening behind the glorious former Bankside Power Station which is ...

The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...

If you wonder what most people intended a “futuristic” computer to look like in the late ’70s, this little-known Dutch PC can give you an answer: it had to be something you could expect to see in the ...

The Pavilion of Lithuania has been awarded the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Combining art installation and theatrical performance and set at the ...

The Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents) is a former orphanage whose nucleus was built between 1419 and 1427 after a design by Filippo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi’s building comprises ...

Polin is a word with a complex significance. An old legend says that once, those Jews who were escaping from persecution in Western Europe reached a forest where they heard someone saying Polin ...

Aerial view of the National Aquarium of Denmark in Kastrup; photo Dragoer Luftfoto, courtesy of 3XN Architects. The architecture of The Blue Planet – National Aquarium of Denmark by 3XN Architects I ...