This week on Dezeen: photo and video sharing app Snapchat transformed the way journalists and visitors explored the world's biggest architecture exhibition in Venice this week.
Dezeen's coverage of the Venice Architecture Biennale on Snapchat included exclusive previews of the best pavilions, behind-the-scenes footage of parties and even humorous portraits of famous architects ? including Norman Foster (main image) ? overlaid with animal features.

Some of the most popular pavilions on Snapchat included Slovenia's wooden library, Australia's swimming pool (above) designed to symbolise a "space for healing racial and cultural tension", and the British Pavilion, which presented sharing technologies as a potential solution to the housing crisis. Vo Trong Nghia
Speaking to Dezeen in Venice, Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia revealed that he makes his staff meditate every day to help them "resist cravings and improve concentration", while Peter Zumthor observed a resurgence in handmade architecture at the event before describing computers as slaves.
MVRDV designs transparent Infinity Kitchen to make food healthier and sexier
After building a Chanel store facade from stronger-than-concrete glass bricks, MVRDV revealed its transparent kitchen in Venice. Also at the event, a team of architects created a room of architectural evidence from Auschwitz, showing how the Nazi concentration camp was purposefully designed as a killing factory.
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