Billard Leece Partnership's project 'A tale of two cities' will be exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.
A total of 17 proposals were chosen from the 129 submissions to the competition, run by the Australian Institute of Architects' 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale Creative Directors, John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec.
Co-Creative Director John Gollings said: “It was a difficult decision. We received wonderful designs and fantastical visions of the future coming from every point of view imaginable, and each one displaying solid thinking.”
The team's two-part 'NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism' exhibition will highlight six of Australia's most interesting urban and anti-urban regions as they are 'NOW', before dramatically representing the futuristic urban environments from the competition imagining a 'WHEN' we reach 2050 and beyond.
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Press:
- 'Australia's 3D urban visions', Detail Magazine
- 'Australia at Architecture Biennale', Indesignlive
- 'Australian architects imagine cities of the future', News.com.au
- 'Architects go to Venice to show us cities of the future', Arts Queensland