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🌴Exploring The British Pavilion: Vena Cava 🌴
The Palm House at Kew Gardens was the beating heart of the British botanical empire.
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The structure itself is left empty, effectively turning the Palm House inside out, probing the possibility of a reparative architecture emerging from the rhythms of material life-cycles and their politics of ecological restitution.
Collaborators: @maelokko and Gustavo Crembil
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With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective
📷 Chris Lane
Visual identity by TEMPLO
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🪦Exploring The British Pavilion: Lumumba’s Grave 🪦
Lumumba’s Grave explores space debris as remnants of imperialist expansion.
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A series of graphite drawings cover the walls and ceiling, telling the story of how this space debris is tied to real-life exploitation and resource extraction.
Collaborators: @thandiloewenson
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With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective
📷 Chris Lane
Visual identity by TEMPLO
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🎤 Architecture as an Earth practice: A Panel Discussion At The Royal Geographical Society in London on 9 June 2025 🎤 eventbrite.co.uk/e/architect…
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Join the curators for this year's British Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition for a compelling conversation about Architecture as an Earth practice. The team will be expanding on the exhibition’s central themes of repair, reparation, and resistance.
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With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective
📷 Taran Wilkhu
Visual identity by TEMPLO
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🪨 Exploring The British Pavilion: Shimoni Slave Cave 🪨
Cave_bureau spoke with the local custodians of the coral caves in Shimoni. They recounted how the caves were used as slave holding chambers.
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These were used to create the rattan weave structure, the undulating forms of which exactly follow those of the cave at a scale of 1:1, reimagining a space of trauma as one of repair and healing.
Collaborators: Phil Ayres and Jack Young at The Royal Danish Academy
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With thanks to our Supporting Partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective
📷 Chris Lane
Visual identity by TEMPLO
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🎉 Doors opened yesterday for GBR – Geology Of Britannic Repair at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition @la_biennale 🎉
This year’s British Pavilion explores the relationship between architecture and colonisation as parallel, interconnected practices.
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🗓️ Exhibition opens 10 May - 23 November.
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Did you spot our River of Hope in the #PlatinumJubileePageant on Sunday?
Our partnership with @ThamesFestivalTrust brought together schools in the UK and across the Commonwealth to design flags for the parade – and yesterday 200 of them were carried down The Mall in #London🧵
