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Established in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale has evolved into the world’s foremost architecture event. Created to promote debate about architectural and urban design issues The Biennale is a stimulating apex of both established and emerging practitioners.
On display at the Palazzo Bollani in Venice until 2 November 27, 2016 Future Islands--New Zealand's entry in the 2016 event--is comprised of 22 suspended ‘islands’ including 100 models of significant completed buildings as well as speculative or unbuilt works that were designed to test ideas/solutions to important questions posed by New Zealand’s changing social and natural environments.
The New Zealand Institute of Architects selected UTS Professor of Innovation & Creative Intelligence Charles Walker to lead the New Zealand entry in the ‘the ‘Olympics of architecture’. Supported by associate director Kathy Waghorn, the full creative team comprised architects, model-makers, design and fabrication experts as well as audio-visual and technology specialists.
On Friday October 14 Future Islands was awarded, by the judges of the Designer’s Institute of New Zealand Best Awards, a ‘Gold Pin’ as best in class for the Exhibition & Temporary Structures category.
“The creative team has taken an exhibition of ingenuity and sophistication to a large and influential international audience. It’s wonderful to see that contribution acknowledged at such a high level here in New Zealand ” said Teena Hale Pennington, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Congratulations to Professor Walker from the Innovation and Creative Intelligene team.
A virtual version of Futre Islands can be viewed via Google Arts & Culture collection: New Zealand - Biennale Architettura 2016