Architecture Events
The best of the year's architecture events calendar, compiled by Wallpaper*
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 Max Creasy on the future of architectural photography and a shift to the ‘snapshot’A show of photographer Max Creasy’s work opens at the AA in London, asking a key question: where is contemporary architectural photography heading? By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 Is slowing down the answer to our ecological challenges? Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025 thinks soCopenhagen’s inaugural Architecture Biennial, themed 'Slow Down', is open to visitors, discussing the world's ‘Great Acceleration’ By Marwa El Mubark Published 
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 Shanghai’s biennial, RAMa 2025, takes architectural exploration outsideRAMa 2025, the architecture biennial at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, launches, taking visitors on a journey through a historic city neighbourhood – and what it needs By Phineas Harper Published 
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 A carbon-emission-busting house, yeast-biomass building, and more ‘Designs for a Cooler Planet’‘Designs for a Cooler Planet’ returns to Aalto University in Finland as part of the annual Helsinki design and architecture week, highlighting buildings, materials and solutions towards a better future By Natasha Levy Published 
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 Germane Barnes just transformed a humble Indiana parking garage into an enormous sub-woofer systemWith Joy Riding, the Miami-based designer’s installation at Exhibit Columbus, Barnes celebrates togetherness by evoking Black car culture By Audrey Henderson Published 
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 How an icon of Japanese Metabolist architecture took on a life of its own – even after its destructionWhen Kishō Kurokawa designed the modular Nakagin Capsule Tower more than 50 years ago, he imagined it boarding ships and travelling the world. Now it has, thanks to a new show at MoMA By Diana Budds Published 
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 At the Royal Academy summer show, architecture and art combine as never beforeThe Royal Academy summer show is about to open in London; we toured the iconic annual exhibition and spoke to its curator for architecture, Farshid Moussavi By Tim Abrahams Published 
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 Porsche and the Norman Foster Foundation rethink the future of mobilityA futuristic Venice transport hub, created with the Norman Foster Foundation for Porsche’s The Art of Dreams programme, is a star of the city’s Architecture Biennale By Simon Mills Published 
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 Chelsea Flower Show unfurled: a year of pause, thought and promiseThis week’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show – now in its 112th year – has begun to reveal its defining spirit. This year is one of tentative readjustment: a reassuring exploration of the ‘future garden’, and the ways in which landscape design might tackle climate and conservation challenges By Matt Collins Published 
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 Innovative coastal garden turns heads at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower ShowLandscape Designer Nigel Dunnett’s ‘Hospitalfield Arts Garden’ at Chelsea Flower Show 2025 has been making waves with its progressive approach to sustainable landscape and planting design By Matt Collins Published 
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 From a mobile pub to a thatched canopy: Japanese architecture and craft explored at AA show in London'Distillation of Architecture', a new AA show in London, pairs architects with materials and makers in an exploration of craft through the Japanese lens By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 ‘Concrete Dreams’: rethinking Newcastle’s brutalist pastA new project and exhibition at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle revisits the radical urban ideas that changed Tyneside in the 1960s and 1970s By Smilian Cibic Published 
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 2024 Stirling Prize goes to the Elizabeth Line: we speak to the winnersThe 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize winner has been revealed, with the Elizabeth Line crowned as the year's best building project; find out about the design and what else made it into the running for the UK's most coveted architecture award By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 
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 Germane Barnes exhibition explores notions of classical architecture and identityGermane Barnes exhibition 'Columnar Disorder' opens at the Art Institute of Chicago By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 The 2024 RIBA Reinvention Award, Muyiwa Oki, and making reuse ‘more special than ever’The shortlist for the 2024 RIBA Reinvention Award has been announced today; we caught up with the institute’s president Muyiwa Oki to discuss the honour By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 'Famous but understudied': IM Pei exhibition at M+ in Hong Kong is a deep dive into the architect's legacy'IM Pei: Life is Architecture' is an exhibition celebrating the global icon; and it's just opened at M+ in Hong Kong By Ijeoma Ndukwe Published 
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 Shigeru Ban has perfected the art of enclosureTaschen’s new XXL monograph, Shigeru Ban. Complete Works 1985 – Today, brings out the sheer diversity of the Japanese architect’s work By Jonathan Bell Published 
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 The Activism Award 2024 goes to Studio Bark, architecture’s passionate championsArchitecture’s Activism Award 2024 has been announced, crowning Studio Bark as the winner from a shortlist of six nominees By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 Don’t Move, Improve 2024: Aden Grove wins Home of the YearDon’t Move, Improve 2024 reveals its winners celebrating the best London home renovations By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 
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 Shigeru Ban’s mini Paper Log House welcomed at The Glass House'Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House' is shown at The Glass House in New Canaan, USA as the house museum of American architect Philip Johnson plays host to the Japanese architect’s model temporary home concept By Adrian Madlener Published 
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 ‘Bio-spaces’ exhibition at Roca London Gallery celebrates biophilic design‘Bio-Spaces: regenerative, resilient futures’ opens at the Roca London Gallery as ‘a call to action to stop designing nature out’ By Clare Dowdy Published 
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 The visual feast of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024 is revealedThe Sony World Photography Awards 2024 winners have been revealed – we celebrate the Architecture & Design category’s visual artists By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 Bruges Triennial 2024 takes over the city with contemporary art and architectureBruges Triennial 2024, themed 'Spaces of Possibility', considers sustainability and liveability within cities, looking towards a greener future By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 3XN exhibition in Copenhagen discusses architecture through our senses3XN exhibition 'Aware: Architecture and Senses' opens its doors at the Danish Architecture Center in Copenhagen By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 Richard Rogers exhibition delves into the architect’s ideas at Chateau La CosteA new Richard Rogers exhibition created by Ab Rogers opens at the late architect’s final design, the Drawing Gallery at Chateau La Coste in France By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 London architecture exhibitions 2023: a guide to the best shows this monthExciting, beautiful and thought-provoking London architecture exhibitions; here's our pick of the finest in town, to visit and enjoy this month By Ellie Stathaki Published 
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 Public by Design: Exhibit Columbus 2023 opening weekend launchesExhibit Columbus 2023 has launched, celebrating public installations of art and architecture in Indiana, USA in its inaugural weekend By Audrey Henderson Published 


