switzerland s per billion deals with issues of scale and architecture and questions the one size fits all ows ing standards visitors find themselves on a tour of an empty apartment where the proportions are impossible. now this could be. my new flat and the swiss villian just something feels not lighted. and you see. that i mentions are all this is not made for cooking definitely. the installation won the golden lion for best national participation the jury called the installation compelling saying it tackles the critical issues of scale in domestic space. from the heart of europe to the middle east israel is just a few steps away to be a nod at its object this year the difficulties of coexistence in
and now we have a date with an architect who decided to live in that would meet up with her in a romantic garden at the other end of the city. genevieve dean has lived here for many yes she considers venice has a second home the architect and professor. it s also a writer in two thousand and six she established the global award for sustainable architecture awarded to architects engaged in the search for new ethics. than i did in free space firearms as models normally again for free space is the theme for the biala this year know how to give us a top global award for sustainable architecture award sustainable and participator global award intermittently do you have the feeling that the world of architecture has changed over the past five or ten years in that in that it s more about building for people of it than for the ego bound to dimension or nick down for the
filigree wooden matters set in the middle of a venetian fark is actually a christian chapel commissioned by the vatican it s the work of british architects are norman foster one of the few big names involved in the bionic foster loves the location out in nature this is just liberal ambiguity to trade it s close but also being aware of all of this rather beautiful side. foster was one of ten architects commissioned by the vatican to design a chapel here on the venetian island of sun join german joining. the twenty eight team venice be a noun it provides an alternative view of architecture one that focuses on meeting the needs of people one that displays great attention to detail but one that is not set in stone that allows for change in free space.
that there is the a picture of a beautiful city that s quite obvious isn t it the palaces the squares the canals and bridges and the promenade along the lake good but why is new construction rarely beautiful that s one of the or many questions we ll be able to ask the architect to plan and build the world around us and who are coming together here in venice the sixteenth architecture be an olive the main focus here isn t on beauty though but on space on green space which is the title of this music exhibition. starting off with the british produce in we find the remains of an experiment robin hood gardens in london was built in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and was intended. to be ideal social housing but it got consistently bad press it
a year provide mall plans and platforms and wait which hong kong and the world to have a new discourse on the design of towers. over one hundred architectural firms took part in the hong kong project and they were given plenty of leeway in keeping with the title of this year s be another free space and the exhibition is surprisingly open playful and creative if you re looking for breathtaking architecture or trends for the commercial lousing market you could be disappointed the architects designers and urban planners here in venice are more interested in what it s really all about creating buildings for people and for society. the project star apartments offers housing solutions for homeless people in los angeles prefabricated modular units are arranged above an open communal floor practical architecture for an inspiring cause.