Tuesday 19 February 2013

Serpentine Gallery pavilion 2013

Sou Fujimoto PavilionSou Fujimoto PavilionJapanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed this year's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, which will be a cloud-like structure made from a lattice of steel poles.

The temporary semi-transparent pavilion, which will be open from 8th June until 20th October, will have two entrances, provide a seating area for a central cafe, and will occupy 350 square-metres of lawn outside the London gallery.

This is the third time a Japanese architect has accepted the annual unpaid commission, which is one of the most highly sought-after small projects in world architecture and goes to a major architect who hasn't yet built in the UK.

Last year's pavilion was a cork-lined archaeological dig created by Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei, who was forbidden to leave China at the time.


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