Carsten Höller adds Doubt Staircase to 18th century Venetian palazzo
Artist Carsten Höller has created a spiral staircase with an incline of five degrees to make users uneasy at the Palazzo Diedo in Venice. More
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Venice Architecture Biennale reveals theme for 2025 edition
Curator Carlo Ratti and president of the Venice Architecture Biennale Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have announced Intelligens Natural Artificial Collective as the title and theme of the event's nineteenth edition. More
Álvaro Siza creates wooden figures for Holy See pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has designed a series of timber figures alongside a garden by Studio Albori for the Vatican City's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Marcante-Testa blends "unique characteristics of Venetian identity" for Ca' Select bar and distillery
Italian studio Marcante-Testa has turned an industrial building in Venice into the canal-side Ca' Select bar, visitor centre and production facility. More
Mitsubishi Jisho Design creates food-waste teahouse in Venice
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Jisho Design has made a teahouse from food-waste-based materials at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
SOM and Princeton University use AR to construct self-balancing arch in Venice
Architecture studio SOM has worked with Princeton University's Form Finding Lab to create the Angelus Novus Vault – a self-balancing brick arch that was built using augmented-reality goggles. More
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Dezeen Agenda features black timber pyramid by David Adjaye
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a black timber pyramid designed by David Adjaye for the Venice Architecture Biennale. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More
David Adjaye creates black timber pyramid for Venice Architecture Biennale
A pointed structure crafted from blackened wood forms the Kwaee pavilion, which Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye has installed at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Time Space Existence show in Venice spotlights solutions for a planet under pressure
Promotion: prefabricated folding pods for housing displaced people are among the projects on display at the European Cultural Centre's (ECC) biennial architecture exhibition that opened in Venice this month. More
Nordic Countries Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale highlights Sámi architecture
A nomadic library created by architect Joar Nango that contains 15 years of material highlighting Indigenous Sámi architecture forms the basis of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Nine projects that encapsulate The Laboratory of the Future at Venice Architecture Biennale
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale is now open to the public. In this roundup, we spotlight nine projects from its main exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future. More
Day three from Venice Architecture Biennale
The Dezeen team have been reporting from the 18th international architecture biennale in Venice, curated by Lesley Lokko. Read on for all the coverage from the third and final day (Friday 19 May) More
Day two from Venice Architecture Biennale
The Dezeen team are reporting from the 18th international architecture biennale in Venice, curated by Lesley Lokko. Read on for all the coverage from the second day (Thursday 18 May) More
Korean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale lets visitors explore "climate endgame"
A quiz show-style game that focuses on social, political and economic issues surrounding climate change is on show at the Korean Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively on Dezeen. More
Day one from Venice Architecture Biennale
The Dezeen team are reporting from the 18th international architecture biennale in Venice, curated by Lesley Lokko. Read on for all the coverage from the first day (Wednesday 17 May) More
Applied Arts Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale aims to "complicate the history of tropical modernism"
A 36-metre-long brise soleil has been covered with screens showing the colonial history of tropical modernism at the Applied Arts Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More
British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale encapsulates "the incredible diversity we experience in Britain everyday"
Designer Mac Collins is among those exhibiting works at the British Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which celebrates how global diasporic communities design space. More
US Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale urges visitors to question plastic dependency
Mankind's relationship to single-use plastics is the focus of the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which is revealed exclusively online as part of a day of pavilion openings. More
Venice floodwaters inform two-tone interior of Warsaw bar Va Bene Cicchetti
Sea green floors and skirting tiles are contrasted against the all-red interior of this bar in Warsaw, Poland, which local studio Noke Architects has designed to recall the high waters of Venice. More
Stefano Boeri Architetti creates "paper lantern" pavilion at Venice Art Biennale
Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has created a pavilion called Hanji House at this year's Venice Art Biennale with an angular, paper-clad form based on sculptures by Korean artist Chun Kwang Young. More