Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.
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MATREX* – the main public building of Skolkovo, designed by Bernaskoni in a consortium with the global experts. The building combines the newest achievements in architecture, science and art. This is a hybrid of several urban functions. The official residence, startup offices, the transforming hall, the spiral museum (exhibit spiral), the restaurant – all these objects are placed here at the same time. Inside the pyramid there is a space in the form of matryoshka**.
* the name of the building is a synthesis of words Matryoshka, Matrix and Rex (from latin word rex – king)
**russian traditional nesting doll
(Boris Bernaskoni)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. 28 May - 27 November 2016. Title: Reporting from the Front. Artistic director: Alejandro Aravena.