Brick installation by Gabinete de Arquitectura wins the Golden Lion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
The international Jury of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia composed of Hashim Sarkis (President of the Jury, Lebanon, USA), Pippo Ciorra (Italy), Sergio Fajardo (Colombia), Marisa Moreira Salles (Brazil), Karen Stein (USA) awarded Solano Benítez, Gloria Cabral, and Solanito Benítez for Unfinished in the Pavilion of Spain (Giardini).
The Golden Lion for the Best Participant went to Gabinete de Arquitectura for ‘harnessing simple materials, structural ingenuity and unskilled labour to bring architecture to under-served communities’.