‘Nagelhaus’ At Biennale In Venice


German artist Thomas Demand and London-based 
Caruso St. John Architects have designed and built a fragment of a full scale mock up of ‘Nagelhaus’, 
a project led by the team that is currently under process in Zurich, Switzerland, for this year’s Venice Biennale.

‘Nagelhaus’ pays 
homage to a story affectionately referred to as the ‘stubborn nail’ from Chongqing, China.
In 2007, private home owners in Chongqing held out against all odds in their small house 
while developers demolished the grounds and city around them.

While the house in China 
did not last, ‘Nagelhaus’ brings back its essence as two modest buildings tucked into a small site under the Zurich’s road viaduct.

Read the original blog post here on Designboom.

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