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GMA Network
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- GMA Network
Philippine Pavilion unveils 'Soil-beings (Lamanlupa)' at Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy
The Philippine Pavilion has opened its doors to the public at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Italy with an exhibition titled 'Soil-beings (Lamánlupa).' The exhibition curated by Renan Laru-an and featuring the work of German-Filipino artist Christian Tenefrancia Illi aims to challenge traditional architectural perspectives by presenting soil not as a mere material, but as a dynamic, living entity. It reimagines the foundational relationship between architecture and soil, shifting focus from structure to the underlying substrate. The exhibition also aims to foster more reciprocal and ethical relationships with the earth, inviting architects, designers, and the public to engage with soil as an active participant in shaping the built environment. At the heart of the exhibition is 'Terrarium,' an installation by Illi, which is composed of nearly 1,000 soil tiles gathered from various Philippine landscapes. According to a press release, Terrarium is the culmination of Illi's months of research, collaboration, and site-specific experimentation across the Philippines and beyond. Co-founder of Studio KIM/ILLI, Illi works between Berlin and Bacolod. —Carby Rose Basina/JCB, GMA Integrated News
The Star
14-07-2025
- Business
- The Star
PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY
Purposeful and visually striking, well-designed buildings have the capacity to create emotional connections between people and communities. Rolex, partnering some of the world's most talented artists and leading cultural institutions for more than half a century, champions architectural achievement at the highest level. Architecture responds to our human and environmental challenges, and profoundly influences our experience of public and private spaces. Akin to creating timeless watches, architectural masterpieces require meticulous attention to detail, from planning to execution, ensuring structural integrity and aesthetic harmony. Rolex Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Partnership with the Biennale Architettura Since 2014, Rolex has served as Exclusive Partner and Official Timepiece of the Biennale Architettura, the world's leading forum for architectural ideas and debate. The Biennale Architettura 2025 exhibition, held in Venice, Italy, was launched on May 10, 2025 and runs until Nov 23, 2025. The exhibition titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective is curated by acclaimed Italian architect and engineer Carlo Ratti. Ratti has asked for ideas on how the built environment can be adapted sustainably in the face of a warming world, with some 60 countries mounting a national pavilion in the exhibition, each of which chooses its own curator and exhibitors. Anne Lacaton (left) and Arine Aprahamian, Architects. Made to last Replacing the previous structure built in 2018, the Rolex Pavilion has been reimagined along principles of sustainability, using local craftspeople, traditional building methods and recycled materials. Talented international architect Mariam Issoufou was invited by Rolex to design the pavilion to reflect the brand's identity and its philosophy of sustainability that stems from creating watches that are made to last. Issoufou, an academic and architectural leader who puts intersectional sustainability at the heart of all projects, runs a practice that extends from Niamey to Zurich and New York. Mariam Issoufou, Architect. She founded Mariam Issoufou Architects in 2014, with one of her completed projects named the Hikma Community Complex, a library and mosque complex in Niger, which won two global LafargeHolcim Awards for sustainable architecture. In 2020, she was named as one of 15 Creative Women Of Our Time by The New York Times. The ecological vulnerability of Venice, as well as Rolex's commitment to craft, was her inspiration for the pavilion. Her approach to sustainability is one that extends beyond environmental factors, ensuring that the pavilion promotes the social fabric, cultural history and economic conditions of crafters in Italy, and more specifically in Venice itself. The pavilion features a wooden facade, crafted locally from recycled wood beams and fashioned to evoke the fluted bezel of many of Rolex's iconic watches. Inside, the translucent coloured ceiling – made by Murano glassmakers – produces a range of shades and hues that morph throughout the day. The terrazzo flooring is made of an aggregate that includes recycled 'Cottisso' crushed glass. Variety of displays Alongside models showing the evolution of its design, a film about the construction of the pavilion will be on display. Images of work carried out by Italian craftspeople who live in or near Venice, and who supplied artisanal materials, will also be included. Reclaiming space in Beirut, an exhibition by French architect Anne Lacaton, espouses building renewal over demolition. Named a Laureate of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize along with her partner Jean-Philippe Vassal, Lacaton is recognised internationally for designs that maximise the discipline's human and environmental potential and make sustainable use of what already exists. In 2025, she received the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture awarded for raising the profile of women in architecture. Rolex Boutique, Milan. Through Rolex, in 2023 and 2024, she mentored young Lebanese-Armenian architect Arine Aprahamian. In a documentary Aprahamian directed, Bourj Hammoud: The Value Of The Existing , she presents her two-year research project under the guidance of Lacaton. The project explores how small and strategic interventions can improve daily life in Bourj Hammoud, a dense neighbourhood of Beirut where she grew up. The architect, designer and researcher champions an innovative, affordable and sustainable vision of the future through architecture, drawing inspiration from science fiction and the qualities of existing sites. She founded architecture and design studio Muller Aprahamian with partner Adrian Muller in 2018, working on cutting-edge buildings and proposals, as well as on forward-thinking projects with notable designers, artists and institutions. They recently launched Terraforma, an in-house R&D project working with local industry to explore the traditional, ancient building material of clay and produce innovative, domestic alternatives for architectural materials. Noteworthy enhancements Rolex's tradition of exquisite craftsmanship is revealed in the refurbishment of two boutiques, through samples of materials and two films displayed in the pavilion. In Milan, an extensive restoration of a Rolex boutique in the world-renowned Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, offers a new language for retail space design. This is based on the enhancement for traditional Italian craftsmanship and a selection of refined materials and custom furniture. ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel's design was inspired by the original architectural details of the gallery, reviving its Milanese atmosphere in a contemporary key, while preserving the historic value of the location. Rolex Boutique,Tokyo. The boutique extends across three floors, and the restoration concept was designed to create a seamless continuity between the Galleria and the retail space, integrating patterns, geometry and Venetian terrazzo flooring to maintain a strong connection with its surroundings. In Tokyo, the new Rolex flagship store features a facade that shimmers with a unique double bezel pattern thanks to metal mesh produced in Kyoto and embedded in the glass. In a kinetic effect, the pattern changes depending on the viewer's angle. Occupying four floors of the Rolex Tower, the facade and store were designed by Gwenael Nicolas of Tokyo-based design studio Curiosity, who worked with local artisans and artists. Delicate aesthetics are created by the subtle palette of carefully selected materials: travertine, Sen wood and frosted glass. Traditional Nishijin-ori fabric and deep green furniture with a lacquer-like texture provide a distinctly Japanese feel. Perpetual Arts Initiative Rolex celebrates achievement, recognising how the journey is marked by milestones, culminating in moments of success – defined by a path followed, not just an award. Through the Rolex Perpetual Arts Initiative, a broad portfolio of arts that extends through architecture, cinema, dance, literature, music, theatre and visual arts, the brand confirms its long-term commitment to global culture. In all these endeavours, Rolex supports excellence in the arts and the passing of knowledge to future generations, who in turn pass on the world's cultural legacy.
Business News Wales
13-06-2025
- General
- Business News Wales
Public Map Platform Project Exhibits at International Architecture Exhibition
A Wrexham University Arts Professor is exhibiting in Italy this summer as part of a project aimed at creating a mapping tool for communities. Alec Shepley, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Art and Society, is co-leading the Public Map Platform (PMP) project, which is being led by Professor Flora Samuel from the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture and Professor Scott Orford of Cardiff University. The PMP is piloting an online map to help local authorities and their communities picture what is happening in a place, as a basis for informed decision making. It has been developed in response to the Welsh Government's need to operationalise the Future Generations Wales Act (FGA), as well as the Isle of Anglesey County Council's need to align its activities and performance with the FGA. The project aims to help Anglesey achieve and evidence its progress towards its wellbeing objectives surrounding children and young people, net zero carbon and poverty. To showcase the progress made through the project so far the project team's work is being exhibited in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia until November. The exhibit has been put together by Professor Shepley; Professor Samuel; Dr Irit Catz, Dr Caitlin Shepherd from Cambridge University; and Piers Taylor, from Invisible Studio. Professor Shepley said: 'It's a huge honour that the PMP project is now showing in Italy, as part of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, which is centred around architecture being a response to the climate and how human design has been led by the need for shelter and survival. 'Our PMP exhibit features photographic panels, which demonstrate what we have achieved as a collective so far, which has mostly been a creative journey around the isle of Anglesey with Gillian Brownson, Lisa Hudson and Rhys Trimble – three multitalented bards, who have worked with children and young people, with the aim of co-creating narratives about a sense of place, imagining their ideal future on the island through poetry, visual arts and creative writing. 'The research has been live and applied, and has seen us collect rich cultural and environmental data from the island's children and young people themselves to help us inform the map. 'This project embodies what Wrexham research is all about – it's about bringing about positive changes, co-created with the community, with the aim of making things better for them. 'Although this project has been taking place in Anglesey, it's a model that can be carried out for any local authority across the UK.' The International Architecture Exhibition is an international exhibition of architecture from nations around the world and held in Venice biennially. This year's exhibition is titled, 'Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.' and will be open to the public until November 23.
Daily Tribune
02-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Tribune
Bahrain Crown Prince Congratulates BACA Team on Global Architecture Win at Biennale Architettura 2025
SK His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, received His Excellency Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, President of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), along with the team behind the Kingdom's acclaimed participation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025 (Biennale Architettura 2025), at Gudaibiya Palace. The meeting followed Bahrain's recognition at the prestigious event, where the national pavilion earned the award for Best National Participation, marking a milestone in the Kingdom's cultural and architectural representation on the global stage. During the meeting, His Royal Highness underscored the critical role of Bahrain's talented national workforce in achieving international excellence. 'Bahrain's achievements across sectors are built on the ambition and dedication of its people,' HRH stated, adding that their contributions continue to support the Kingdom's comprehensive development journey led by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister praised the team's creative and meaningful work at the Biennale, which showcased Bahrain's architectural identity and tackled global environmental issues with visionary insight. He emphasized the importance of integrating innovative approaches to reinforce Bahrain's leadership in international cultural arenas. 'This award is not only a win for Bahrain but also recognition of our proactive engagement in sustainable urban development and environmental discourse,' HRH noted. His Royal Highness expressed pride in the national pavilion's success and conveyed appreciation to everyone involved in its development, describing it as a testament to Bahrain's rich architectural legacy and its future-focused vision. HE Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed expressed his gratitude for the unwavering support from HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister. He noted that the international recognition is a direct result of the continued guidance and patronage from His Majesty the King and the strategic directives issued by HRH to amplify Bahrain's cultural presence worldwide. Also in attendance at the meeting were His Excellency General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Minister of Interior, and His Excellency Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Minister of Finance and National Economy.
Express Tribune
24-05-2025
- General
- Express Tribune
Pakistan's highlights climate change at Venice architecture exhibit
At the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Pakistan Pavilion is presenting its installation (Fr)Agile Systems, which seeks to explore the drastic impact of climate change. As per a press release, Pakistan continues to occupy a paradoxical and precarious position along with many other countries of the Global South. Despite contributing less than one percent to global carbon emissions, the South Asian country bears the disproportionate weight of climate-induced disasters ranging from rising temperatures to melting glaciers, intense downpours to savage floods, unusually low precipitation to severe droughts, heatwaves to wildfires. The 2022 floods alone affected over 30 million people across the country, resulting in a dramatic loss of human life, livestock, crops, infrastructure, and land, while further straining an already strained economy. (Fr)Agile Systems not only highlights the severity of Pakistan's vulnerability to climate-induced disasters, but also serves as a reminder of the stark inequity of the climate crisis—one that keeps weighing down hardest on regions that have historically had the least to do with causing it. In the presence of such severity and inequity, it also reiterates the imperative to rethink climate resilience as an adaptation process attuned to the asymmetries and imbalances of an interconnected world. At the heart of the Pavilion is rock salt — a material deeply rooted in Pakistan's geological and cultural heritage. Concentrated in large quantities in the Northern Punjab region of the country, Pakistani rock salt embodies a temporal depth formed over hundreds of millions of years. With its rather distinct pink hue and unmatched purity, it also embodies aesthetic and spiritual values besides lending itself to other uses. Here in the ambient humidity of Venice, however, it serves a different purpose. By constantly dissolving, rehardening, and reshaping itself, it becomes a powerful metaphor, reflecting on the one hand the adaptive and enduring qualities inherent in natural elements and processes, and on the other the vulnerability of natural systems and cycles under the strain of profit-driven human activities. In other words, it reflects both agility and fragility. This phenomenon, where an indigenous material is brought into an unfamiliar environment and subjected to conditions that alter its very nature, also suggests that climate resilience does not rest in universal solutions dictated by regions primarily responsible for the climate crisis, but in localised and nature-based acts of adaptation that resist colonial and capitalist structures of extraction and exploitation. Inside the Pavilion, a suspended structure, both fragile and agile, dominates and articulates the front space, holding the rock salt in a rather complex system that through its asymmetry and imbalance recalls the paradoxes, precarities, and inequities of the climate crisis, while urging a more proactive, equitable, and locally-led response. This central installation is lined by a series of maps that explore Pakistan's climate crisis through the interplay of geology, resilience, and vulnerability. Titled Mapping Pakistan's Fragility and comprising 12 copper-etched plates with colour overlays, the series presents the profound impacts of climate change on Pakistan's diverse landscapes. At once a reflection and a call to action, the Pavilion also envisions a future in which architecture takes a radical turn and becomes deeply re-rooted in cultural heritage and critically re-engaged with ecological realities. It is here that we invite visitors to a place we imagine — a place embedded in a mountain range that extends from a plateau to a river in Pakistan's Punjab province, a quiet place that speaks loudly for change in how we design and build as architects. In addition, the Pavilion presents a pamphlet titled Climate Inequity: A Closer Look that offers a more detailed study of global climate inequity by tallying the historical carbon footprints of the Global North and the Global South. The Pavilion also presents a framework titled Decolonsing Design: Toward Mutualist Practice that calls on architects to conscientiously value and support diversity, locality, and interdependence in architecture. Organised by Coalesce Design Studio (Karachi) and MAS/Architects (Lahore), the Pavilion is curated by Anique Azhar (MAS/Architects), Sami Chohan (Studio 4Pai; Navigating Noplace; GCAS-Jehan), Salman Jawed (Coalesce Design Studio), Bilal Kapadia (Coalesce Design Studio), Mustafa Mehdi (Coalesce Design Studio), Madeeha Merchant (DOT; Urban Justice League; Columbia University), Arsalan Rafique (The Urban Research Frontier; Revolving Games), and Ayesha Sarfraz (MAS/Architects; Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture). The Pavilion is housed in Spazio 996/A, a gallery space managed by Exhibition Care and situated between the key entrances of the Biennale. Have something to add? Share it in the comments below.
