John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The multipurpose room features a movable partition system that can divide the space into three smaller rooms for meetings, workshops, and events.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The multipurpose room in a 'study hall' furniture configuration.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The multipurpose room in a 'lecture hall' furniture configuration.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The multipurpose room also provides expansive views of the surrounding streetscape.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
Meeting booths along the exterior wall of the club meeting area are constructed of translucent acrylic to maximize natural light.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The custom millwork of the booths frames views into the center of the club meeting area as well as to the exterior while creating a comfortable, focused environment for users.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
Individual workstations are surrounded by club lockers, tucked away from the more social club meeting area.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
The club lockers feature geometric covers that dampen noise and offer space for decoration by students.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
Administrative offices line the hallway into the club meeting area, with glass partitions to encourage interaction and borrow natural light.
Photo credit:
Alexander Severin
John Jay Club Row
Shakespeare Gordon Studio
Floor plan
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SGS
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The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
The entrance and main façade of the Polish Pavilion, overlooking the Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia. Built in the 1930s, the Pavilion has hosted Poland’s national exhibitions since 1932 and now presents Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
The modern archetype of protection: a fire extinguisher displayed with reverence, echoing centuries of firefighting evolution and domestic vigilance
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
A hand fire extinguisher, part of a long history of firefighting tools—from bucket brigades to chemical cartridges—now reframed as both a safety device and a design element
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
A wiecha—wreath of branches with ribbons and tools—placed atop the building to mark its structural completion, a tradition in Poland since the 15th century
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Entrance to the exhibition Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture, where visitors are invited into a space shaped by rituals, regulations, and everyday gestures of protection
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Presented as part of the building’s architecture, the fire extinguisher draws attention to the emotional dimension of functional safety elements
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
A fire extinguisher set into a niche decorated like a fresco, revealing its symbolic and reassuring presence within the domestic space
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
A blessed beeswax candle (gromnica), traditionally lit during storms and placed in the window to protect the house from lightning—a ritual rooted in Candlemas traditions
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
From fire rituals to radiesthetic rods, from holy corners to certified safety devices—this exhibition invites us to rethink how architecture has always mediated our need for protection
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Foundation offerings (zaktadziny), once buried beneath the home’s corners—eggshells, grain, money, blessed candles—to secure protection and abundance for the new dwelling
Photo credit:
Jacopo Salvi, Zachęta archive
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