Jonathan Bell

3 days ago | wallpaper.com | Ellie Stathaki |Jonathan Bell

Featuring a whopping 750 participants, ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’, the main show at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, opened this weekend in the historic city of Venice.

3 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

Aston Martin’s ‘New Vantage’ certainly packs a punch in hard-top form. These days it’s unsurprising to find that driving characteristics and essential statistics can pretty much be cut and pasted between the open and closed versions of a sports car. The new open version is an improvement, aesthetically and dynamically, on the previous generation Vantage Roadster, which was hardly a slouch or lacking in the looks department.

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

Alongside the work of South Korean landscape architecture Jung Youngsun, the new San Marco Art Centre in Venice opened this month with an exhibition of the work of Australian modernist Harry Seidler. Making great use of the monumental 80m-long run of first floor galleries overlooking Piazza San Marco, Migrating Modernism was traditional in the best sense of the world, telling a story and presenting a life and career, richly embellished with meaningful objects and visuals.

4 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

Providing a stark contrast with the profusion of pavilions old and new that sprouted across the city in the Arsenale and Giardini was the official opening of SMAC, San Marco Art Centre, following a substantial renovation by David Chipperfield Architects. Exhibition view, For All That Breathes on Earth: Jung Youngsun and Collaborators, SMAC, Venice, 2025.

5 days ago | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell

There's a positional arrogance to the British Pavilion, placed as it is to terminate the grand axis of the Giardini, flanked by France and Germany on either side but raised up above both. Dating from 1909, just before the extent and scale of the British empire reached its peak, the building was designed by the architect Edwin Alfred Rickards.