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New designers to look out for in 2025 – from 3D printed buildings to fuzzy chairs made from agave

The UK’s top creatives have put together a list of makers who put sustainability first. Using everything from reclaimed rattan and bacteria-dyed fabrics to algorithmic design, these trailblazers are making positive steps forward for people and planet

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Lesley Lokko reviews 2024's wins, shifts, tensions and opportunities for 2025

Lesley Lokko, the British-Ghanaian architect, educator, curator, and founder and director of the African Futures Institute (AFI), has been an inspirational presence in architecture in 2024; which makes her perfectly placed to discuss the year, marking the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards

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African and Asian artists condemn ‘humiliating’ UK and EU visa refusals

‘Unfair’ rejection rates of up to 70% harm cultural diversity and create a ‘global apartheid’, say promoters and musicians

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Venice Architecture Biennale 2025: a glimpse of what’s to come and useful information

The time for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 launch is nearing and our ultimate guide for the what, who and where of the biannual festival is here to help you navigate the Italian island city and its rich exhibition offerings

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2024 RIBA Gold Medal recipient Lesley Lokko: ‘To be valued, understood and seen by your peers is rare’

Lesley Lokko receives the 2024 RIBA Gold Medal in a dedicated celebration in London, and talks to us about taking stock after a busy few years, and planning for the future

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Sex scenes and feasibility studies: architect and racy novelist Lesley Lokko wins RIBA gold medal

The unstoppable Ghanaian Scot, who shook up the Venice Biennale with a focus on the scars of postcolonial Africa, has now made history by winning architecture’s prestigious award

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2024 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture celebrates Lesley Lokko

The 2024 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture will be presented to Lesley Lokko for her contributions to the field, the RIBA announced

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Year in review: top 10 architecture stories of 2023, selected by Wallpaper* architecture editor Ellie Stathaki

Stathaki presents her top 10 architecture stories of 2023, from a world-leading festival to lesser-known 20th-century architecture, contemporary transport hubs, museums and a pool to splash in

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What will life after globalisation look like? The Venice Biennale may hold the answer

Cultural colonialism has rightly been rejected – but China’s protest shows that authoritarians can also weaponise tradition, says philosopher Lorenzo Marsili

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Rahul Mehrotra’s many-sided portrait at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

Through publications, projects and video documentaries, architect Rahul Mehrotra and curator Ranjit Hoskote bring the former’s hybrid three-decade-old practice to Venice Architecture Biennale

The Hindu

African architects honoured at the Venice Biennale

Nigerian artist-designer Demas Nwoko has won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2023 at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia He is one of many Africans in focus this year.

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2023 British Pavilion offers diverse and dynamic installation at the 2023 Venice Biennale

The 2023 British Pavilion, 'Dancing Before the Moon,' contributes a triumphant blend of ritual, music, and cross-cultural pollination to the biennale’s ‘laboratory of the future’

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Brazil scoops 2023 Golden Lion award for national participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The Brazil Pavilion won the prestigious 2023 Golden Lion award for best national participation, as announced at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy this weekend - along with more honours for individual and country-led installations

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Venice Biennale 2023 review – an important challenge to western architectural tradition

Under the title The Laboratory of the Future, curator Lesley Lokko succeeds in her aim to show off under-represented talent from Africa and elsewhere – even if it doesn’t all quite come off

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Venice Architectural Biennale gives overdue voice to long-silenced Africa

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

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The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s Architecture Biennale spotlights Africa

Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year’s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa – and shows its vicious exploitation continues

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African architects challenge Venice exhibition to decolonise and start new conversations

Presented since 1979, the Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is possibly the most influential architecture exhibition in the world. For the first time, this year’s edition is curated by an African architect, Lesley Lokko. She has ensured that a strong African presence is the central feature of the…

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Curator of Africa-themed Venice Biennale denounces Italy's denial of visas to 3 Ghanaians

The curator of this year’s Venice Biennale on architecture has denounced Italy’s denial of visas to three Ghanaian men who worked with her on the main exhibition giving voice to Africans and the African diaspora

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Venice architecture biennale: how pioneering Ghanaian architects reckoned with tropical modernism

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

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Architect Lesley Lokko: ‘There is a sense in Africa that it is our time’

The Ghanaian-Scottish architect is curator of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, and more than half of the participants will be African. The story of architecture we are used to, she says, is incomplete

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Venice Architecture Biennale 2023: who, when, and what to look forward to

As we gear up for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, we explore what’s in store for visitors at the world's famous celebration of building design

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