The Kingdom of Bahrain has been awarded The Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 12th Venice architecture Biennale.
‘Reclaim’, the first official national participation of a gulf state at the architecture biennale, is an investigation into the decline of sea culture in the island.
Besides the Bahrain installation, the Dutch project caught our eye.
The installation ‘vacant NL’ calls upon the Dutch government to make use of the enormous potential of inspiring, temporarily unoccupied buildings from the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries for innovation within the creative knowledge economy.
Rietveld Landscape has been invited by the Netherlands Architecture Institute to make a statement in the form of an installation about the potential of landscape architecture to contribute to resolving the major challenges facing society today.
Last but not least on our Biennale post:
Japanese firm Junya Ishigami and Associates has been awarded with the Golden Lion for the best corporate project.
Called‚ Architecture as air: study for ‘Château la Coste’, the project explores a new form of transparency by blurring the limiting boundaries between space and structure, essentially aiming to illustrate architecture as air, which transcends the concepts of lightness and weight:
Their installation is a physical model of a building. By building it at full-scale, it should enable the viewers to perceive the otherwise invisible void, an element that is, much like air, smaller than anything of an everyday scale.
Read the original blog post here on designboom.
