The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale has all the looks of a must-see event as we celebrate its official opening this weekend in the Giardini, Arsenale, and other satellite locations spread across the floating city. Social media posts streaming in from the six-month fair capture the excitement and community on the ground for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, where curatorial teams and their audiences expound on its theme 'Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.’ This is an opportunity to see the experiments growing out of the living laboratories of each individual national pavilion as they come together in convocation to chart a new course for practitioners of the built environment worldwide. Curator Carlo Ratti talked about this and how he views the event as an urgent and to reflect on. (As he told us this week in an exclusive interview, "architecture is about survival.")  In all, over 750 participants are attending. The best shots from the opening week are incl...