Osaka Expo, Japan
1. Osaka Expo 2025
Venue: Osaka, Japan
Dates: 13 April – 13 October 2025
Tickets: Approx. ¥4,000 – ¥5,000 (£20.00 – £25.50) with discounts for children and seniors
Overview: The 2025 World Expo centers on the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” inviting global participation to envision sustainable, inclusive futures through innovative architecture, technology, and cultural exhibitions. Notable national pavilions include Japan’s futuristic “Future Society” pavilion using AI and robotics, Spain’s showcase of renewable material architecture, and Cartier’s immersive kinetic storytelling installation blending craftsmanship with digital projection. The Expo site itself features cutting-edge sustainable architecture, emphasizing green technologies and interactive visitor experiences.
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Photography: Jeon Taeg Su
2. Do Ho Suh: Walk the House – Tate Modern, London
Venue: Tate Modern, London
Dates: 1 May – 19 October 2025
Tickets: £16.00 – £20.00 Concessions available
Overview: Renowned for his ethereal fabric sculptures, Do Ho Suh presents a deeply personal architectural installation that reconstructs multiple scaled replicas of his former homes and studios, allowing visitors to physically walk through layered memories. The translucent nylon forms articulate themes of migration, displacement, and identity, creating a spatial dialogue between individual experience and collective memory. The exhibition includes immersive soundscapes and video elements contextualizing Suh’s transnational journey between Korea, London, and New York.
Click link for program info. The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House
Venice, Grand Canal
3. Venice Architecture Biennale – Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.
Venue: Venice, Italy
Dates: 10 May – 23 November 2025
Tickets: €25.00 – €150.00 Concessions available
Overview: Curated by Carlo Ratti, this 18th edition explores the intersection of natural, artificial, and collective intelligence in shaping architecture’s future. Over 750 national pavilions present experiments in biomimicry, AI-driven design, and community-based urban planning. Highlights include Oman’s desert-adapted vernacular architecture reimagined with sustainable tech and Togo’s pavilion, which uses traditional materials and communal knowledge to rethink post-colonial spatial identity. The event offers symposiums on climate resilience and participatory design, reinforcing architecture’s social role amid technological disruption.
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Images courtesy of: Carpenters Workshop Gallery London ( Paul Cocksedge: Refelections. Marcin Rusak Vas Florum: Resin Botanica )
4. Carpenters Workshop Gallery – Reflections / Vas Florum: Resin Botanica
Venue: Ladbroke Grove, London
Dates: 22 May – 30 August 2025
Tickets: Free admission
Overview: A curated roster of leading contemporary designers, with two standout presentations defining the season. Reflections by British designer Paul Cocksedge and Polish multidisciplinary artist Marcin Rusak’s Vas Florum: Resina Botanica. Together, these highlights capture the exhibition’s wider spirit, merging craft, material innovation, and conceptual design, while Ladbroke Hall’s grand interiors provide an expansive stage for this dialogue between light, form, and botanical memory.
Click link for program info. Carpenters Workshop Gallery: Whats on
Wolfgang Tillmans Freischwimmer 79, 2004
5. Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Prepared Us…
Venue: Centre Pompidou, Paris
Dates: 13 June – 22 September 2025
Tickets: €17.00 Concessions available
Overview: This groundbreaking exhibition transforms the Centre Pompidou’s BPI Level 2 gallery into an expansive photographic and installation environment. Wolfgang Tillmans presents large-scale images and mixed-media works addressing themes of media saturation, digital memory, and the politics of representation in the 21st century. The show also compensates for the Pompidou’s ongoing renovations by dispersing parts of its permanent collection to partner museums across France, allowing Tillmans’s work to act as a counterpoint to traditional modern art narratives.
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Photography: Iwan Baan
6. Serpentine Pavilion 2025 – A Capsule in Time
Venue: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London
Dates: 6 June – 26 October 2025
Tickets: Free admission
Overview: Designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, the 2025 Pavilion explores temporality and movement through a kinetic wooden structure inspired by traditional Bengali rice granaries. The pavilion’s articulated timber panels respond to environmental cues such as wind and light, creating an ever-changing sensory experience. Tabassum’s design foregrounds sustainable craftsmanship, using locally sourced materials and traditional joinery methods while engaging visitors in contemplations of nature, culture, and shelter.
Click link for program info. Serpentine Pavilion 2025 A Capsule in Time, designed by Marina Tabassum
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2025
7. Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition 2025
Venue: Royal Academy, London
Dates: 17 June – 17 August 2025
Tickets: £23.50 – £25.50 Concessions available
Overview: The Academy’s flagship open submission show celebrates over 250 years of British and international contemporary art. The 2025 edition features a curated architectural commission program integrating large-scale sculptural works, spatial installations, and immersive environments. Themes range from urban regeneration and climate awareness to explorations of materiality and form. Notable commissions include mixed-media kinetic sculptures by emerging architects and veteran artists blending functional design with artistic expression.
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Images courtesy of: Museum SAN
8. Antony Gormley: Drawing on Space & Permanent Installation Ground
Venue: Museum SAN, Wonju, South Korea
Dates: Drawing on Space 20 June – 6 October 2025 | Ground (Permanent)
Tickets: ₩22,000 – ₩33,900 (£13.00-£20.00) Tickets for the exhibition can be purchashed on site at the museum.
Overview: Antony Gormley’s largest Korean exhibition to date unfolds at Museum SAN amid the forested hills of Wonju. Drawing on Space spans 48 works ranging from monumental sculptures and immersive spatial installations to delicate drawings and prints, offering a comprehensive survey of Gormley’s engagement with the human form and its relationship to space. At the heart of this presentation is Ground, a permanent intervention created in collaboration with Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The subterranean 25-meter concrete dome, pierced by an oculus, houses seven sculptural figures symbolizing human presence and connection to the earth. Visitors descend down a spiral staircase and into a meditative chamber where architecture, light, and sculpture converge, while the surrounding landscape holds a solitary Gormley figure in quiet dialogue with the mountainous horizon.
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Photography: Florent Michel
9. Clinamen: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Venue: Bourse de Commerce, Paris
Dates: Until 21 September 2025
Tickets: €10.00 – €15.00 Concessions available
Overview: This immersive installation transforms the historic Bourse de Commerce into a surreal aquatic soundscape. Boursier-Mougenot’s floating porcelain bowls drift across a shallow pool, generating subtle resonant sounds as they collide and interact, creating an unpredictable musical environment. The exhibition explores themes of chance, natural rhythms, and spatial acoustics, inviting visitors into a meditative sonic architecture blending art, science, and sensory experience.
Click link for tickets and program info. Clinamen: Céleste Boursier- Mougenot is taking over the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce.
Photography: Tom Harris: The Buell Center, 100 Links, Chicago Cultural Center
10. Chicago Architecture Biennial 2025
Venue: Chicago, USA
Dates: 12 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
Tickets: Free admission
Overview: CAB 2025 focuses on innovative urbanism, public space, and environmental design. The 2025 program includes immersive installations, large-scale models, and participatory workshops addressing themes of equity, climate justice, and technological innovation in city-building.
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Image courtesy of: V&A Storehouse East
11. V&A Storehouse East
Venue: Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Dates: September 2025 (coinciding with London Design Festival)
Tickets: Free admission
Overview: This new facility expands the V&A’s capacity to display and conserve its vast collections of furniture, lighting, textiles, and future materials. The Storehouse East pavilion acts as both exhibition space and public resource, showcasing experimental designs, prototypes of sustainable materials, and lighting innovations from designers worldwide.
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Image courtesy of: Virgil Abloh Foundation
12. Virgil Abloh: The Codes
Venue: Grand Palais, Paris
Dates: 30 September – 10 October 2025
Tickets: Free admission
Overview: This retrospective celebrates the groundbreaking interdisciplinary work of Virgil Abloh, whose career spanned fashion, furniture, and cultural production. The exhibition showcases his innovative approach to design as a language, with works that blur boundaries between commercial and conceptual art. Key pieces include custom furniture, runway garments, and digital projects emphasizing questions of identity, race, and authorship.
A series of publications and public programs – including dialogues, workshops, performances, and screenings – will accompany the exhibition, offering further insight into the exhibition’s themes and bringing together voices from Abloh’s broader creative community. This exhibition is organized with support from the Virgil Abloh Foundation and Nike.
Click link for program info. Virgil Abloh: The Codes, a Grand Palais Exhibition in Partnership with NIKE
Photograhy: The Benjamin Enwonwu Foundation
13. Nigerian Modernism – Tate Modern, London
Venue: Tate Modern, London
Dates: 8 October 2025 – 10 May 2026
Tickets: Free for members: General admission applies (£18.00)
Overview: The UK’s first major exhibition devoted to Nigerian modern art, this show traces the rich artistic landscape from colonial era through independence to contemporary practice. Featuring over 50 artists and more than 250 works, it explores how Nigerian artists redefined modernism by integrating indigenous techniques, social activism, and political critique. Highlights include multimedia installations, sculpture, and architecture-related works that challenge Eurocentric art histories and foreground African creativity on the global stage.
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14. World Architecture Festival 2025
Venue: Miami Beach, USA
Dates: 12 – 14 November 2025
Tickets: £ 450.00 +
Overview: An internationally recognized festival featuring awards, keynote lectures, and exhibition showcases of cutting-edge architecture. The 2025 edition focuses on resilient design and socially engaged architecture, spotlighting projects from diverse global contexts. Participants include architects, urban planners, and developers discussing the future of built environments under climate change pressures.
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Image courtesy of: Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
15. Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Venue: Kobe, Japan (Permanent)
Tickets: Approximately ¥700 (£4.00) Concessions available
Overview: A permanent collection dedicated exclusively to traditional Japanese woodworking tools and joinery. The museum features over 30,000 artefacts, including centuries-old chisels, saws, planes, and elaborate joinery models from historic temples and shrines. Interactive exhibits and full-scale architectural reconstructions provide an unparalleled educational experience for visitors interested in craftsmanship, architectural history, and cultural heritage.
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