Azure Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

As part of the central exhibition of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, curator Hashim Sarkis dedicated a portion of his sprawling showcase — titled “How Will We Live Together?” Here are five of these recent temporary interventions from across the world, injecting a serious dose of fun into the great outdoors.

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Creative Boom

MAY 19, 2025

From shifting type to seismic symbolism, TEMPLO's visual identity for Geology of Britannic Repair explores rupture and restoration through the lens of architecture as earth practice. Designing for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is never simply about surface-level graphics.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Back in 2019, the duo — who met as architecture students at Princeton — were shortlisted to represent Canada at the 2020 Venice Biennale in Architecture for their proposal examining the modern-day obsession with “beautifying, hardening and enhancing” bodies. Photo by Christopher Sherman.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2020

The book’s observations might inspire a moral reckoning for adherents of modernism; its authors hope it is the beginning of a new genre of criticism. Elizabeth Pagliacolo. It reminds the reader that the details are what give a building its soul.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

According to the director, the film is “is above all inspired by what has united these four women throughout their careers: the ‘dream’ of a fundamentally human and inclusive city.” A new documentary channels the wisdom and experience of four living architectural legends with rousing energy. Available to stream on Crave.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2020

square-metre cabin is a study in minimalism warmed up by a palette of nature-inspired materials. And while the handsome brick frontage lends the house an outward-facing connection to its Victorian surroundings, the vaulted geometry establishes a motif that carries through the living space, giving the home an elegant distinguished identity.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s a model that continues to inspire intentional communities the world over — especially in countries indexing the highest in democratic participation. PHOTO: Teeple Architects Yet on the rare occasions that new affordable co-operative projects are built, the results can be inspiring.

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JULY 3, 2024

Toronto is no stranger to cinematic role playing — Canada’s planned 2020 Venice Biennale exhibition, Imposter Cities (which was later realized at MOCA Toronto ), explored how the city’s buildings often stand in for other destinations on screen. But Severn City Airport is a special case.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cohen has built his international career on his double identity as both an architect and an intellectual. He has explored theory and design from 1900 to the present and incorporated his vast knowledge into publications, exhibitions (including at the 14 th Venice Biennale, where he curated the French Pavilion) and lectures.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

Now open to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale is in full swing. Here, we review five major themes that emerge at the Venice biennale. Indigenous Expression One of the most powerful exhibitions at the Venice biennale is the Nordic Countries Pavilion, where Joar Nango has recreated his Sámi Architecture Library.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

And if “all architecture is good for [is] imagining new ways to live together,” it’s also vital to imagining what the Arab region will be like in the future: Will it maintain its fervent religious identity? Will gender roles still be so heavily enforced? Will drought and extreme heat rid the region of life?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With lectures by Shirley Blumberg, Konstantin Grcic and Rossana Hu, exhibitions celebrating hip hop culture, the immersive world of Do Ho Suh and architecture from the American South, and blockbuster installations by Yayoi Kusama and Paolo Sorrentino, the next few months of architecture and design events promise a world of inspiration.

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