Events

Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

The Biennale, A Construction Site?

High-tech, low-tech, and AI: The 19th Architecture Biennale doesn’t refuse to showcase architecture – but does it meaningfully engage with the pressing realities its audience faces? 

Winner of the Aga Khan Award

Jahad Metro Plaza in Teheran by KA Architecture Studio

The new underground entrance at Meydan-e Jahad in Tehran shows how urban spaces can be enhanced without any commercial involvement. Mohamad Khavarian and his firm KA Architecture Studio won the 2025 Aga Khan Award for their barrel-vaulted brick construction.

Global stage for architecture and society

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025: SHIFT – Architecture in Times of Radical Change

The 2025/26 Chicago Architecture Biennial celebrates its tenth anniversary as North America's largest architecture festival. Taking place from 19 September 2025 to 28 February 2026 at the Chicago Cultural Centre and throughout the city, it will explore how architecture responds to social, ecological and cultural upheavals under the motto SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change. 

Iconic Awards 2025

Mapping the Present: Iconic Awards 2025

Renovation instead of new construction, attitude instead of icons: the Iconic Awards 2025 show how architecture is shaping change with everyday concepts for work, health, education and energy.

Award for Innovative Building Structures

DETAIL Construction Award 2025

The award recognizes the achievements of companies that serve as role models. It highlights their social significance and relevance for the building culture and interior design of the future.  

DETAIL Climate Forum

DETAIL Climate Forum Düsseldorf 02. October 2025

The days of ignorance are numbered. Climate change and its consequences present mounting challenges to architecture and the construction industry. Resource-efficient construction is the order of the day.

Kinetic shading system

Sombra Pavilion in Venice by MVRDV

MVRDV and partners present the Sombra Pavilion – an architectural experiment in the dynamic control of light, heat and ventilation.

Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice

Saving the World Out of the 3D Printer?

Material experiments using 3D printers are booming at this year's Architecture Biennale. But what real problems of our world are they supposed to solve – and by when?

Exhibition in Venice

Fondazione Prada Presents “Diagrams” by AMO/OMA

An exhibition in Venice that is well worth seeing deals with the history of infographics as a medium. The more than 300 exhibits were selected by Rem Koolhaas and his office AMO/OMA.

Serpentine Pavilion 2025

„A Capsule in Time“ by Marina Tabassum

Marina Tabassum and her firm are designing the 24th Serpentine Pavilion. “A Capsule in Time” is set to open on 6. June 2025, sparking a dialogue about the permanence and transience of the commission.

Architecture Biennale 2025 in Venice

What Helps to Combat the Heat in Cities?

Global warming is most noticeable in the world's cities. At this year's Architecture Biennale, it is not only the German pavilion that is focusing on urban heat islands. The solutions presented range from tree planting to cooling ceilings for urban open spaces.

Future of mobility

Gateway to Venice's Waterway by Norman Foster and Porsche

“Gateway to Venice's Waterway” is a joint research project of the Norman Foster Foundation and Porsche at the Architecture Biennale 2025. The prototype studies alternative urban mobility solutions.

Architecture Prize

Pritzker Prize 2025 for Liu Jiakun

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Architecture goes to Chinese architect Liu Jiakun. The award ceremony will take place on May 3 at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a building designed by Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel.

Architectural intelligence

Preview of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

At a time when reason and foresight are becoming less influential in world affairs, this Architecture Biennale may be just the response we need. Carlo Ratti, the Biennale Director, will be staging his exhibition “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as many other locations in Venice, from 10 May 2025. Will this Architecture Biennale offer fresh insights into the critical issues of our time?

Immersive pavilion structures and circular concepts

Expo Osaka 2025 – the Future of Our Society

Under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives“, architects such as LAVA, Nüssli, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban and Nikken Sekkei are impressing visitors to this year's Expo in Osaka with futuristic and sustainable pavilion structures.

Thought for Humans

Preview: Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025

The Salone del Mobile.Milano will open its doors from 8 to 13 April 2025 under the motto "Thought for Humans". More than 2000 exhibitors, cultural installations and futuristic discussions await visitors. One of the highlights is the return of the Euroluce Biennale.

DETAIL Climate Forum

DETAIL Climate Forum Munich 05. Juni 2025

How can architecture make our cities more resilient and our buildings more energy-efficient to meet climate demands?

Facades of Tomorrow

DETAIL Facade Congress 2025

The Detail Facade Congress on May 9, 2025 will provide an outlook on a variety of other tasks that building envelopes will have to fulfill in the future.