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.

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2012 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, completion

The 2012 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, opened on i June 2012 in Kensington Gardens, London, UK.

Eleven columns characterising each past pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure  support a floating platform roof, which can collect rainwater. The pavilion's interior is clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities and to echo the excavated earth.


Below is a video of some of the preparation and completion of the pavilion:

Serpentine Gallery website.

2012 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, Kensington Gardens

2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, preparations, by Cybermyth13.

In Kensington Gardens, preparations are under way for the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. The space for the pavilion is created by excavation under the lawn that was used by the previous pavilions. Eleven columns characterising each past pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure will support a floating platform roof. The pavilion's interior will be clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities and to echo the excavated earth.

Serpentine Gallery website.

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.

Saturday Evening, 2009 Serpentine pavilion, London, England

Sometimes it is difficult to know at what angle to display a photo. Personally I prefer the photo as above but in order to make sense of the picture you need the photo as it was taken below.

Saturday Evening, Serpentine pavilion, London, England, originally uploaded by Cybermyth13.

The photo was taken on a Saturday evening at the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architecture firm SANAA. More pictures of the pavilion can be seen in Flickr here and in my other blog here.