Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 2014

There is a new summer pavilion outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic . The pavilion is a torus or ring shape supposedly resting on stone supports, although it is actually metal supports encased in large stones which are used to give it stability. There are also stones to sit on below the pavilion. The vent in the front gives a glimpse of the inside of the pavilion. It is open to the public from 26 June to 19 October 2014.

www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine...

Shard progress

Construction started in March 2009 on the Shard designed by Renzo Piano and is due for completion in 2012.

Shard building, July 2010,  by Cybermyth13.

Construction started with the central core  but the work was completed on the lower floors as the core increased in height. The 72-storey central core was finished in December 2010 and is 244 metres high.

The Shard, April 2012

The Shard has now risen to 87 storeys at 310 metres (1,016 ft) and is Europe’s tallest commercial building.

The Shard Building, Progress 2010-12

The view from St Thomas Street of the southwest corner of the Shard outside London Bridge Station in July 2010

The southwest corner in evening sunlight, April 2011

Nearing completion, the southwest corner in April 2012

A is for Angles

Paper Tower by Shigeru Ban, South Bank Centre, London,  by Cybermyth13.

Angles in the Paper Tower by Shigeru Ban at the South Bank Centre, London. The tower, seen from below, is 22m high and made of cardboard tubes with metal joints. It was part of the 2009 London Design Festival.

K is for Kinetica

Kinetica, Dalston, London E8, by Cybermyth13.

Kinetica is a new housing development in Dalston, Hackney, London E8. The 14-storey building designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects. The apartment block features four wind turbines stacked vertically down the rear of the building.. The rear is designed to channel the wind towards the turbines. The wind turbines were made by the firm Quiet Revolution.

K in Conor's A-Z

P is for Pavilion

Reflections Serpentine 2009 Pavilion 2, by Cybermyth13.

Each year the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London, has a temporary summer pavilion designed by an architect who has not built in the UK before. This produces some interesting results.

In 2009 the deign was by the Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architecture firm SANAA. One of the features of the building was the reflective ceiling.

For more of my pictures of the pavilion see here.

P in Conor's A-Z.

Y is for Yellow

Concrete Staircase at night, Southbank, London - 2, by Cybermyth13.

A yellow staircase at night in the Southbank Centre by the River Thames in London. The style of architecture for the centre is Brutalism.

Y in Conor's A-Z.