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...

Weird Sights

Very Red

Taken through a red window, the Red Sun Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery.

Lego building

 

A 2-storey house made of Lego, using standard Lego pieces

  Giant Bear with Yellow Scarf

 

Rupert Bear looms over Victoria Park, London

Giant Beaver

 

 Beaver by street-artst ROA  in a car park

Spaceship or a Cloud?

A Spaceship disguised as a Cloud over Kensington Gardens, London

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.

Some Favourite Pics of 2011

Urban Fox on Southbank, London

Regent Street with 2011 Christmas lights featuring characters from Arthur Christmas.

While the workers are away, the machines can play. 
A building site in East London at the weekend.




Things do not always work out the way you expected.
Appearing Rooms by Jeppe Hein outside the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre in London. The walls of water vary to create different spaces and to allow people to enter and exit the spaces.

The corridor round the 2011 Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion, Hortus Conclusus, designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. It is a transitional area between the outside world and the garden within the pavilion.

Within the Serpentine pavilion, the central garden by the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf provided an area of peaceful retreat. See earlier post on pavilion

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.

R is for Red

Red railings and grass at the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion,  by Cybermyth13.

The combination of evening summer sun and a pavilion with red glass walls is enough to turn the black railings and green grass both red. Red was the theme of the 2010 summer pavilion by Jean Nouvel at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. See this set on Flickr for pictures of the pavilion.

R in Conor's A-Z .