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Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

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? 

Global stage for architecture and society

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. 

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Interview with Erwan Bouroullec

From a farmhouse in Burgundy to the Mynt chair for Vitra – Erwan Bouroullec shares how listening, simplicity, and purpose shape his design work across very different scales.

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A house of many roofs

The swimming hall in the Breton town of Saint-Méen-le-Grand is a complex of many small gabled roofs. The Raum studio has now expanded the centre and covered it with a minimalist shell of wood and slate.

Regional construction with a difference

Brügger and his firm, Vbrügg, have experimented with contrasting materials in their weekend home in the Sierra de Córdoba in Argentina. The building's core is made of rough, exposed concrete, which contrasts with the lightweight steel structure covering the terrace and bedrooms.

Architectural visionary turns 90

Norman Foster turns 90! A review of the star architect's work: From high-tech icons to sustainable urban development – he continues to shape the world of architecture today.

Future of mobility

“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.

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Architecture Prize

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.

Habitat for birds and mammals

The structure, designed by the Spanish architecture firm Temperaturas Extremas, supplies water to the nearby Kirchberg Plateau in Luxembourg. It will also provide nesting sites for birds.

A place of learning and remembrance

In 1942, the Wannsee Conference House in Berlin was the venue for the conference that decided on the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. Staab Architects have now added a single-storey seminar building to the site.