Venice Architecture Biennale Hong Kong Pavilion 2018, Design Exhibition in Italy
Hong Kong Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018
HK Architecture Exhibition in Italy – cultural protagonism: Curators, Dates, News
23 May 2018
La Biennale di Venezia Pavilion of Hong Kong 2018
Hong Kong Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition
Fernando Menis at the Venice Biennale, invited by the Hong Kong Pavilion
? Under the motto Freespace, architecture takes back cultural protagonism
On May 26 through November 25, a new edition of the world famous Venice Architecture Biennale opens its doors.
Under the motto Freespace, curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects) say that “everyone has the right to benefit from architecture, the role of architecture is to give shelter to our bodies, but also to raise our spirits. A beautiful wall, which forms the edge of a street pleases the pedestrian, even if she never crosses the portal ”
photograph © Menis Arquitectos
Hong Kong participates in the collateral events section of the Biennial, with a proposal curated by Weijen Wang with Thomas Tsung, Thomas Chung and Grace Cheng. Titled Vertical Fabric: Density in Landscape, the exhibition shows Hong Kong’s ability to make city density and explores the freespace, the free space between the towers.
The curators invited 100 Hong Kong and international architects to propose and design towers in free space, thus provoking intensive reflection and res...