Projet. Pavillon du Bahreïn Osaka Expo 2025 Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Bahrain-Pavilion-Osaka_News_01

Jun 01 2024

Project. Bahrain Pavilion, Osaka Expo 2025.

We are excited to announce that we are designing the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain at The Expo Osaka 2025 Japan!

The pavilion is located in the " Empowering Lives" area facing the sea. The design draws inspiration from traditional Bahraini dhow boats, reinterpreting millennial boat building techniques that showcase Bahrain’s rich craftsmanship and manufacturing heritage, alongside Japanese wood artistry- in a celebration of the bilateral relations between both countries.

Photo © Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture

Prix. Opal Award, Ateliers Hermès. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture OPAL-AWARD_News_01

May 03 2024

Award. Opal Award, Hermès Workshops.

We are delighted and honored that our Hermès Workshops project has won the Opal Award in the Architectural Design / Historical category. Based in London, the Opal Award recognizes excellence in design and creativity in the built environment.

This project was born of an ambition to design the first low carbon energy positive building in France with a reflection on the history and values of Hermès. Craftsmanship was both a starting and end point for the project: it was unravelled with our research into the history of the site, its local resources, the particularities of this environment, the soil of the place with its damp, clayey earth, ready to be molded into bricks.

Photo © Iwan Baan

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May 02 2024

Academic. Kenzo Tange Professor, Harvard GSD.

This spring 2024, Lina Ghotmeh is appointed as Kenzo Tange Professor Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In her studio, entitled "Long Living Spolia", she focused on stone construction as a sustainable material and a program for the elderly. The semester was inspired by the ancient practice of spolia, integrating it seamlessly into contemporary architecture.

Photo © Kimberly Lloyd

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Exposition. Maquette Stone Garden. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Exhibition-Designing-Peace_News_01

Feb 04 2024

Exhibition. Stone Garden Model

From the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York to the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, the Stone Garden project model traveled with the "Designing Peace" exhibition.

Through the presentation of 30 proposals, initiatives and interventions from over 20 countries, visitors were able to discover a wide range of design responses to the underlying causes of conflict and division, such as socio-economic inequality, competition for resources and environmental degradation.

Photo Stone-Garden Project © Laurian Ghinițoiu, photo model © Dallis Willard

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Inauguration. Résidence d’artistes Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Archives_News_03

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Inauguration. Résidence d’artistes Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Archives_News_01

Jan 10 2024

Opening. Artists résidence.

Our workshop is pleased to announce the delivery of the residency project for multidisciplinary artists and creators for the Kadist foundation on rue des Archives in Paris.

The building, Hôtel de Tallard, is the result of a historical sedimentation of the constitutive periods of the Marais, an emblematic district of Paris.

The project reconnects with the history of the place, rediscovering the depth and complexity of the original building. This residence is a unique experience of space and light dedicated to inspiring those who live there.

Photo © Takuji Shimmura

Jan 03 2024

Award. Great Arab Minds.

We are very honored for Lina Ghotmeh to receive the Great Arab Minds award 2023. Compared to the Nobel Prize but for the Arab World, this Award is offered to individuals who contribute to making breakthroughs in their field, paving the way for paradigm shifts.

Our sincere gratitude to his highness Sheikh Mohamad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to his excellency Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, to the jury and the great minds of this esteemed award, all for acknowledging the central role Architecture plays in our societies.

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Publication. “A Table!”, Serpentine. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Serpentine-Catalogue_News_02

Publication. “A Table!”, Serpentine. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Serpentine-Catalogue_News_03

Oct 01 2023

Publication. “A Table!”, Serpentine.

Titled “A Table!” this book was created in tandem with the Serpentine Pavilion 2023, echoing and expanding on the ideas and design of Lina Ghotmeh and Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture. The volume brings together textual and visual narratives from contributors drawn from the fields of architecture, art, photography, cuisine and fiction.
We conceived this book as a space to reflect on our relationship with land and nature through our design of the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion.

Photo of the book © Les Graphiquants. Photos of the pavilion © Iwan Baan

Sep 19 2023

Event. Herald Design Forum 2023.

Lina Ghotmeh invited to give a talk in Seoul at the Herald Design Forum, Asia's largest design festival, on the theme "Design for Coexistence".

Moderated by architect Hyunjoon Yoo, Lina Ghotmeh shared the stage with Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2022, for an in-depth discussion on architecture for coexistence.

Photo Lina Ghotmeh © Hannah Assouline, Photo Francis Kéré © courtesy Lars Borges.

Jun 09 2023

Unveiling. Serpentine Pavilion

We are delighted to announce the public opening of the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion 2023.

Inspired by Lina Ghotmeh’s Mediterranean heritage and fervent discussions around the table over news, politics, personal lives, and dreams, the Pavilion is titled "À table" – a French call to sit down together at the table to engage in dialogue while sharing a meal. As such, the interior of the Pavilion features a concentric table along the perimeter, inviting us to come together, sit down, think, share and celebrate, enabling new relationships to form.

Visit "À table", Serpentine Pavilion 2023 from 9 June - 29 October 2023

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Jun 07 2023

Feature story. Dezeen Film Serpentine Pavilion

In this film, architect Lina Ghotmeh shares the process of designing the Serpentine Pavilion 2023. Ghotmeh describes her approach to architecture as an "archaeology of the future".

Speaking from her studio in Paris, she takes us through the research and influences that have informed the concept for "À table", the next Serpentine Pavilion.

Visit "À table", Serpentine Pavilion 2023 from 9 June - 29 October 2023

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Lauréat. Musée d’Art Contemporain d'AlUla. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Museum-AlUla_News_Slide1

Lauréat. Musée d’Art Contemporain d'AlUla. Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Museum-AlUla_News_Slide2

May 18 2023

Winner. AlUla's Contemporary Art Museum.

We are proud to announce that Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture has been selected to design the Contemporary Art Museum of AlUla.

Through this project, Lina Ghotmeh will contribute to this north-western Arabian landscape with its 7,000 years of uninterrupted human history. Directly echoing our studio's methodology, this project is the fruit of an in-depth historical research process. The Contemporary Art Musuem of AlUla will emerge in complete symbiosis with nature, through the form of interventions that enliven memories and the senses.

Landscape Architect : Erik Dhont Landscape Architects

Inauguration. Ateliers Hermès Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Hermes-LGA-Cover-1

Apr 07 2023

Opening. Ateliers Hermès

Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture is proud to announce the opening of its project designed and realized for Hermès.

Offering an architecture that extends the surrounding landscape, this building is made with the highest ecological ambitions. It constitutes a real technical and architectural feat: to date, it is the first industrial building to benefit from the E4C2 label. A low carbon, energy positive, passive building. With her atelier, Lina Ghotmeh designed a structure in wood and structural bricks with more than 500,000 bricks, produced 70 kilometers from Louviers in order to minimize the carbon impact of construction while promoting the artisanal know-how of Norman brickmakers.

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