Belgium
The National Community Theater and Contemporary Art Museum - Brussels contains two theaters and a rehearsal space. The museum has a printed glass facade that illuminates the building at night. The Daniel Dethier tourist promotion office in Namur uses local materials, including stone, steel, and wood, to integrate into the regional architecture. The Assembly of the French Community Commission in Brussels stands out as a vertical contrast to its surrounding buildings. The Municipal Building in Schaerbook has a dense and massive effect due to its angular lot and pre-patinated steel exterior
Supermarket sweep… the Latvian pavilion which has been transformed into a minimart.
This contribution brings a little levity to the long trek through the halls of the Arsenale.
Choice as the basis of architectural process, the pop aesthetics emphasizing the languages of consumption as in Hamilton or Warhol: everything is structured by the dynamics of commerce.
Welcome to T/C Latvija, surely the most instagrammed installation of this edition of the Biennale
Latvia is reopening the archive boxes once again, reminding us (including the Biennial Presidency) of everything that has already been thought up and invented, and inviting us to place the most urgently needed products in the basket, to combine them with one another, and ultimately consume all the knowledge.
Fun, colourful and thought-provoking, it offers a tongue-in-cheek moment to the Arsenale sequence...
Latvia's participation in the Biennale Architettura 2023 is organized and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.
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