The international events which bring together the world’s best of everything tend to have competition at their hearts, whether founded as a foil to rising nationalism or as a product of it: just look at the Olympics, expos, and biennales. Even today, participants strive in a friendly rivalry to somehow outdo one another. The Venice architecture biennale is no different. Although, due to COVID, the jury for the Lion D’Or won’t convene until late August everyone at the preview in Venice last week was asking, which do you think is the best pavilion?
Wood beams soar to create the shell of a building for the U.S. Pavilion.
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