Best missed pavilions (presumably):
Togo,  Bulgaria

Best one-line joke pavilions:
Poland (funniest of all),  Estonia (insulation shocks tourists)

Best self-care pavilions:
Denmark (dig and tell),  Finland (endless repairs),  South Korea ()

Best bombastic pavilions:
Germany (Wagnerian),  USA (cut a forest for your porch)

Best wartime pavilions:
Latvia ( against ),  Ukraine (roofs for resistance),  Lebanon (seeds for peace)

Best tasteful pavilion:
Spain ()

Greenest over-achiever pavilions:
Belgium,  México

Biggest pillow pavilions:
Argentina,  Bahrain ()

Most puzzling pavilions:
Japan (the building speaks, but …)

Best ever parametric pavilion:
Serbia ( knitting beats computing)

Best extra dry pavilion:
Switzerland ( discover a woman without showing her work )

Best scaffolding:
Holy See,  France,  Hong Kong

Best bad art show:
Australia,

Great Britain,  Nordic Countries Pavilion (maybe someone can explain?)

Best bad idea:
Netherlands ( draining a sports bar)

Best no Biennale shows:
Architecture of the Barricade () Arsenale Institute for the Politics of Representation, Diagrams () Fondazione Prada

Best models:
North Macedonia (Heavy Metal Brutalism)

Best party:
Austria (a Piranesean fortress on Sant‘Andrea island )

Best bags:
Uzbekistan ( sun reflector),

CCA (variatio delectat)

Best lion statement:
Solidarity with Serbian protesters (Vladan Joler)

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