Pavilions
Pavilions
Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Australian Pavilion to become a swimming pool for Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Denton Corker Marshall's recently completed Venice Biennale pavilion will be transformed into a swimming pool for next year's architecture exhibition. More
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Pavilions
Twisting observation tower could be built in a northern Italian forest
Architects Anton Pramstrahler and Alex Niederkofler have unveiled their proposal for a wooden viewing tower near Bruneck, northern Italy, with a twisted body shaped like a tree trunk (+ movie). More
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Pavilions
Belly of the Beast is a hillside folly with a scruffy coat made from old tyres
Scraps of rubber tyres create a shaggy coat around this narrow tower created by architecture students Matt Ritani and Declan Burn on a countryside sculpture trail in New Zealand. More
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Pavilions
First images of the UK's beehive-inspired Milan Expo pavilion released
Milan Expo 2015: the first photographs of Wolfgang Buttress' UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan have emerged, revealing that its structure is now complete (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Denton Corker Marshall's "mysterious black box" is Australia's new Venice biennale pavilion
Architecture firm Denton Corker Marshall has unveiled the new pavilion Australia will now use for its exhibitions – an austere black box looming over a canal (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Angular seaside tower by Gruff and MSA contains a viewing platform that moves underfoot
When visitors step inside this viewing tower on the coastline of Lincolnshire, England, an inner chamber tilts forward so the nearby beach becomes visible through a pair of aligned horizontal slots (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Drum-like pavilion by GH3 creates a glowing presence in a Canadian city park
The mirrored glass surface of this park pavilion in Edmonton, Canada, helps the structure merge with its surroundings during the day and glow from within at night (+ slideshow) More
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Pavilions
SelgasCano unveils first images of colourful 2015 Serpentine Pavilion design
Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano have revealed their proposal for the 15th Serpentine Pavilion in London – a "chrysalis-like" structure made from colourful see-through plastic. More
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Pavilions
Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beaches
Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Warming Huts provide shelter for ice-skaters on Winnipeg's frozen river
A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Stone canopy by a21studio forms monastic pagoda in a Vietnam park
Intended to encourage more austere worship for Buddhists, this stone shelter in a Vietnam city park was designed by a21studio – the firm behind the 2014 World Building of the Year (+ slideshow). More
Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish manse
These two glass and steel pavilions erected by architecture collective De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten in the gardens of a disused presbytery form a community hall and youth club for a Belgian village (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Smoking Room by Gianni Botsford Architects is a translucent-concrete garden folly
Gianni Botsford Architects worked with translucent concrete to create this boxy garden pavilion in Zurich, dedicated to "the old fashioned art of smoking" (+ slideshow). More
Blackened-timber boathouse completed by Weiss Architecture on a Canadian island
This blackened-timber boathouse and pavilion designed by Weiss Architecture occupies a cedar jetty that projects out from the rocky coastline of an Ontario island (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Floating pyramid and wooden tunnel built in the woods by Architectural Association students
Two new structures have been erected by students amongst the trees of Hooke Park, England – a translucent pyramid suspended from the branches and a wooden burrow that nestles amongst the trunks (+ slideshow). More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Andrés Jaque to create water-purifying pipe network for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
News: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to turn the courtyard of the New York gallery into a water filtration plant. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Summer pavilions built from old rope and bicycle wheels to open in New York
News: two pavilions – one made out of broken umbrellas and bicycle wheels, and one constructed from materials used in oyster cultivation – are due to be installed this summer on Governors Island in New York. More
Pavilions
Pavilions
Riverside concrete pavilion in Norway pays tribute to a paper press
Exactly 30 years of footage of a paper pulp press in action is being projected onto a concrete screen inside this pavilion, created by A2 Architects and artist John Gerrard on the site of a former paper mill (+ slideshow). More
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Pavilions
Microsoft Technology Pavilion takes its cues from the Windows 8 interface
The blocks of colour that make up both the Microsoft logo and the Windows 8 interface formed the basis of this temporary pavilion in Russia, created for the technology giant by architecture studio Nowadays (+ slideshow). More