2016 venice architectural biennale
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about 2016 venice architectural biennale
Project • By Secco Sistemi SPA • Hotels
Molino Stucky
Constructed in several phases from 1884 to 1895, ever since Molino Stucky has dominated the Giudecca Canal with its massive volume. An outstanding testimony of industrial archaeology, for over seventy years this neo-Gothic building was at the avant-garde as a steam-driven mill.
In the nineteen fifties it began its great decline, until it was totally restructured and transformed into a five-star hotel that opened in 2007. Not only the restoration of the brick walls, but also the replacement of the doors and windows was the object of intensive study regarding the transformation of the building to its new use, with the high quality performance requirements this entailed.
The 1950 original doors and windows in slim iron-window, without sealin... More
Project • By Matteo Thun & Partners • Hotels
JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa
An island becomes a 266 rooms hotel. Deep in nature and history, gazing at the Venice Lagoon-scape. Water, slowness and silence. Ten minutes by boat from San Marco. More
Project • By Tekne • Pavilions
Australian Pavilion
International Ideas Competition
Venice Architectural Biennale
In the heart of the Australian dessert, home of the Anagu, rises the mountain Ulurù, center of the called “dreamtime”, time in which all the living creatures where created by the supreme being from the same mass. The human beings must be the guardians of this creation.
This mysticism is where the concept of the pavilion is born. The journey starts in the surrounding corridors, where the visitor experiences the idea of entering in a new world kept by the petrified guardians, you continue your way into the ground deep inside where life starts. As you get deeper and deeper into the building you will traverse a spiral ramp towards the center of the main hall, where the infinite... More
Project • By RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] • Pavilions
Giardini in Silence: Metamorphosis in between art and architecture
‘Giardini in Silence’ is a proposal by RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances] and architect Marcel Moonen for the annual period of absence in between the Venice art- and architecture biennales. It reclaims public space from vandalism and security companies. For many decennia the period November-May has been vacuum in time in which the closed park looks like an urban wasteland with boarded up pavilions. With ‘Giardini in Silence’ RAAAF propose to give it back to the people for seven months a year. The Giardini could become a ‘counter-point’ in a city that is overcrowded due to mass tourism; a public space of silence and contemplation.
Within the busy city of Venice ‘Giardini in Silence’ embraces the transition from an artistic and... More