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With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective 📷 Chris Lane Visual identity by TEMPLO @la_biennale @Kabage_Karanja @GoDownArts @theafricacentre

The structure itself is left empty, effectively turning the Palm House inside out, probing the possibility of a reparative architecture emerging from the rhythms of material life-cycles and their politics of ecological restitution. Collaborators: @maelokko and Gustavo Crembil

🌴Exploring The British Pavilion: Vena Cava 🌴 The Palm House at Kew Gardens was the beating heart of the British botanical empire. venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/geology-britan…

With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective 📷 Chris Lane Visual identity by TEMPLO

A series of graphite drawings cover the walls and ceiling, telling the story of how this space debris is tied to real-life exploitation and resource extraction. Collaborators: @thandiloewenson

🪦Exploring The British Pavilion: Lumumba’s Grave 🪦 Lumumba’s Grave explores space debris as remnants of imperialist expansion. #BritishPavilion #GeologyofBritannicRepair #VeniceBiennale #Architecture #UKKenyaSeason2025 #eastafricaarts #RoyalGeographicalSociety

With thanks to our supporting partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective 📷 Taran Wilkhu Visual identity by TEMPLO @la_biennale @Kabage_Karanja @owen_hopkins @RGS_IBG

Join the curators for this year's British Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition for a compelling conversation about Architecture as an Earth practice. The team will be expanding on the exhibition’s central themes of repair, reparation, and resistance.

🎤 Architecture as an Earth practice: A Panel Discussion At The Royal Geographical Society in London on 9 June 2025 🎤 eventbrite.co.uk/e/architecture… #BritishPavilion #GeologyofBritannicRepair #VeniceBiennale

With thanks to our Supporting Partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective 📷 Chris Lane Visual identity by TEMPLO

These were used to create the rattan weave structure, the undulating forms of which exactly follow those of the cave at a scale of 1:1, reimagining a space of trauma as one of repair and healing. Collaborators: Phil Ayres and Jack Young at The Royal Danish Academy

🪨 Exploring The British Pavilion: Shimoni Slave Cave 🪨 Cave_bureau spoke with the local custodians of the coral caves in Shimoni. They recounted how the caves were used as slave holding chambers. #BritishPavilion #GeologyofBritannicRepair #VeniceBiennale #UKKenyaSeason2025

With thanks to our Supporting Partners @dalmorewhiskey and 10N Collective 📷 Chris Lane

🗓️ Exhibition opens 10 May - 23 November. venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/geology-britan… #BritishPavilion #GeologyofBritannicRepair #VeniceBiennale #Architecture #UKKenyaSeason2025 #eastafricaarts

🎉 Doors opened yesterday for GBR – Geology Of Britannic Repair at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition @la_biennale 🎉 This year’s British Pavilion explores the relationship between architecture and colonisation as parallel, interconnected practices.

Did you spot our River of Hope in the #PlatinumJubileePageant on Sunday? Our partnership with @ThamesFestivalTrust brought together schools in the UK and across the Commonwealth to design flags for the parade – and yesterday 200 of them were carried down The Mall in #London🧵