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Sou Fujimoto to Design Cloud of Steel for 2013 Serpentine Pavilion

2013-02-14T11:17:00-05:00

London’s Serpentine Gallery has selected Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto to design the 2013 Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary structure open for four months starting in June. Fujimoto’s proposal for the Kensington Gardens site continues the architect’s exploration of transparent and organically generated forms with a cloud-like structure composed of 20-mm steel poles that intersect and form a delicate linear latticework to shelter a cafe and events space below.

Ai Weiwei the architect

2012-05-31T17:21:00-04:00

Ai Weiwei will not attend the opening tomorrow of his architectural debut in London. One of the most important artists in the world today, and certainly the most famous Chinese artist, Ai has been under “city arrest” in Beijing since last year, unable to leave the Chinese capital and under constant surveillance from the Communist Party regime. He is accused of tax avoidance but many suspect his treatment is in retaliation for his outspoken and frequent criticism of the Chinese government.

Previously in the Archinect News: Serpentine Gallery Opens Pavilion (Without Ai Weiwei).

Serpentine Gallery Opens Pavilion (Without Ai Weiwei)

2012-05-31T16:50:00-04:00

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, was presented to the press today before it will officially open to the public tomorrow, June 1.

Since Chinese officials had put Ai Weiwei on 'city arrest' in his hometown Beijing, he was not able to attend the ceremony together with his design collaborators Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Weiwei was however allowed to send a recorded statement: “As an artist, I’m always very interested in putting art, design, architecture and social change together ... to give new possibilities.”

For a detailed conceptual description by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, check out this previous Bustler post.

First Images of the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

2012-05-07T20:14:00-04:00

London's Serpentine Gallery just released plans for the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. This summer's pavilion, the twelfth commission in the gallery’s annual series, will be open to the public from June 1 to October 14, 2012.

Let us know what you think about this year's pavilion design in the comment section below. You can also re-read reactions to the initial announcement of the design team here.

Bird's Nest Collaborators, Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron, selected for 2012 Serpentine

2012-02-07T10:42:00-05:00

The Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei collaboration – the 12th pavilion – breaks the mould of the sequence so far as the criterion for the commission had been for an architect not to have built in England. But Herzog & de Meuron are also deeply engaged in the art world, having built the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. They are currently working on art museums in New York, Miami and Kolkata.

Piet Oudolf's garden at the Serpentine Gallery pavilion

2011-07-01T00:45:29-04:00

So who did Zumthor call upon to provide the garden, the green hortus at the centre of his conclusus? Piet Oudolf, of course, foremost exponent of the new perennials movement, a low-key Dutchman with the build of a rugby player who has practically cornered the market in high profile planting projects: the Lurie Garden at Chicago’s Millennium Park, New York’s Battery Park and the wildly popular High Line are among his best known works.

Peter Zumthor’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion Opens this Friday

2011-06-29T13:29:00-04:00

Peter Zumthor's first completed building in the UK opens this Friday, July 1: the 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The concept for this year’s Pavilion is the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden. One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into the central garden, a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London – an interior space within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers.

Peter Zumthor-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens this week

2011-06-27T17:53:00-04:00

While Norman Foster and David Chipperfield issue pitiless streams of press releases about their fabulous projects, wins, achievements, awards, honours, Zumthor does not cultivate journalists. On the contrary, he tends to be ever so slightly disobliging to reporters.

Take a first look at this year's Serpentine Pavilion on The Telegraph's YouTube channel.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel Opens this Sunday

2010-07-07T14:12:00-04:00

This year—the Serpentine’s 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK. Bustler

Jean Nouvel picked for 10th Serpentine pavilion

2010-03-22T20:15:00-04:00

The design for the 2010 Pavilion is a contrast of lightweight materials and dramatic metal cantilevered structures. The entire design is rendered in a vivid red that, in a play of opposites, contrasts with the green of its park setting. In London the colour reflects the iconic British images of traditional telephone boxes, post boxes and London buses.

The design for the 2010 Pavilion is a contrast of lightweight materials and dramatic metal cantilevered structures. The entire design is rendered in a vivid red that, in a play of opposites, contrasts with the green of its park setting. In London the colour reflects the iconic British images of traditional telephone boxes, post boxes and London buses.
Serpentine Gallery press release:

Jean Nouvel commissioned to design 10th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

5 July – 20 October 2010

In its 40th anniversary year, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to announce that the 10th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is being designed by world-renowned Fren...

SANAA's Serpentine Unveiled

2009-07-08T17:57:00-04:00

This morning, the press viewing took place for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary summer cafe and event space commissioned annually by the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London.

This morning, the press viewing took place for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary summer cafe and event space commissioned annually by the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. AJ

Gehry Reveals his Serpentine

2008-03-25T16:48:00-04:00

Is April Fool's Day coming early this year? If not, my theory is that UPS dropped the model in transit and tried to fix it themselves. Photos after the jump...

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 will give London the first example of Frank Gehry’s spectacular architecture. The highly articulated structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup – comprises large timber planks and multiple glass planes that soar and swoop at different angles to create a dramatic multi-dimensional space. Part-amphitheatre, part-promenade, these seemingly random elements will make a transformative place for reflection and relaxation by day, and discussion and performance by night.

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion series, now entering its ninth year, is the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind, and is one of the most anticipated events in the international design calendar.

Frank Gehry said: “The Pavilion is designed as a wooden timber structure that acts a...

Serpentine "Pre-Pavilion" Images

2007-07-11T11:32:00-04:00

The first images of Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Gallery "pre-pavilion" are now available at Building Design.

Serpentine Pavilion Eliasson/Thorsen

2007-04-25T11:53:00-04:00

The Serpentine Gallery

has images of the collaboration pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen's 2007 Pavilion. via l previous

Serpentine Pavilion Becomes Collaborative Event?

2007-03-19T16:12:00-04:00

It was announced last week that artist Olafur Eliasson and Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, of the architectural firm Snøhetta, will collaborate to create the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones said, “The Serpentine Gallery architectural commission is taking a step into the future by expanding the design team to include a visual artist, a format that began last year with the collaboration of Rem Koolhaas, Cecil Balmond, and artist Thomas Demand. This will bring an extra dimension to the project.” ArtForum

A Serpentine Coil

2006-08-22T01:42:00-04:00

The Bloomberg news service casts a questioning eye on the Serpentine gallery and says: Serpentine Gallery Seeks to Stay Edgy With Bubble, Talk-a-Thon | Hot Air and Architecture

Serpentine Pavilion 24 Hour Marathon

2006-07-28T10:23:00-04:00

Tonight is the first of two 24 hour sessions where Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist interview over 50 people. More info and the full list of participants inside >>
FRIDAY 28 JULY
6pm - 9pm
Ken Adam / David Adjaye / Brian Eno / Zaha Hadid / Charles Jencks / Hanif Kureishi / Ken Loach / Tim O'Toole / Yinka Shonibare

9pm - 12am
Michael Clark / Tony Elliott / David Greene and Sam Hardingham / Susan Hiller / Tim Newburn / Tom McCarthy

SATURDAY 29 JULY
12am - 3am
Ron Arad / Marcus du Sautoy / Pedro Ferreira / Roger Hiorns / Olivia Plender / Peter Saville / Richard Wentworth / Jane and Louise Wilson / Cerith Wyn Evans

3am - 6am
Abake / Shumon Basar and Marcus Miessen / Anat Ben-David / Sophie Fiennes / Russell Haswell / Damien Hirst / Ant Genn

6am - 9am
Zygmunt Bauman / Ryan Gander / Gilbert and George / Iain Sinclair / Caruso St John

9am - 12pm
Eleanor Bron / Mark Cousins / Giles Deacon and Katie Grand / Patrick Keiller / Isaac Julien / Doreen Massey / Mary Midgley

12p...

Serpentine Blows

2006-07-18T18:25:00-04:00

Couldn't resist the dumb pun, just to draw your attention to new photographs of this year's Serpentine Pavillion. We have some interesting detailing in this set by our blogger, Chris Daniel. More in the flickr pool... Previously | In the Gallery

London's garden playground for architects

2006-07-02T12:38:00-04:00

The International Herald Tribune recalls the history of the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavillion commission, from the first in 2000 by Zaha Hadid, to this year's design by by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond. Read | Photos from this year's construction

Serpentine: Building Site

2006-06-27T13:47:00-04:00

This year's Serpentine Summer Pavilion is beginning to take shape. On a tight schedule, construction is going at full speed. Check the progress >>
Two weeks to go.

Koolhaas Blows a Bubble

2006-04-06T00:22:00-04:00

Koolhaas's scheme for the Serpentine Pavilion posits a giant inflated ovoid bubble. Who needs mountains when you can have fresh air? | kultureflash | wm$na | thanks sbox

Koolhaas to design 2006 Serpentine Pavillion

2005-12-08T09:23:00-05:00

That's right, breaking news at bdonline.
frm the news > "Previous plans for a grass covered mountain-like pavilion by fellow Dutch architects MVRDV, originally planned for this year, have now been postponed indefinitely because of the â€œtechnical and financial issues associated with the projectâ€, the gallery announced this week. Koolhaas also plans to work on a programme of films, interviews and debates to complement his new pavilion."

Pavilion in Cork

2005-09-11T22:15:00-04:00

Cork, Ireland, is the European Culture Capital 2005 and the 2001 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Daniel Libeskind and Cecil Balmond has apparently found a place to roost there. flickr

A Mountain in the People's Palace

2005-08-05T13:05:00-04:00

Mountains everywhere, first at the Serpentine , then at the Venice Biennale , and now in Berlin.
The former government headquarters of the desolved german (not so) democratic republic, better known as "Volkspalast", now contains a mountain inside, as part of a series of performances and events within the gutted structure. more...(in german but with images)

SerpentBuild2

2005-06-18T02:19:00-04:00

Ludwig Abache brings you new pics of the Serpentine Pavil under construction in UK. Prev

SerpentBuild

2005-06-05T23:49:00-04:00

On 0lll, pics of Serpentine Pavil under construction in UK.

Serpentine Pavilion 2005

2005-04-15T22:02:00-04:00

Images of the Siza / Souto Moura's Serpentine Pavilion are out. And dont forget, as in previous years, the Pavilion will be offered for sale so start saving those pennies. | serpentine (via) | prev

The Serpentine, postponed

2005-01-19T21:07:00-05:00

Work on the mountain , which was planned to open in May, should have begun last month but, with design problems unresolved, the decision was taken to postpone it. Previously
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A plan to erect a 23 metre-high temporary mountain over the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, west London, has been delayed for at least a year.

The proposal by the Dutch firm MVRDV promised to be one of the most spectacular events of the summer but technical problems were too great to be overcome in time. The proposal to encase the gallery within a mountain, with grass-covered slopes over a steel frame, was the most ambitious suggestion in its programme of architect-designed summer pavilions.

Visitors would have been able to climb up and through the mountain, enjoying views over London while still being able to visit the gallery.

Work on the mountain, which was planned to open in May, should have begun last month but, with design problems unresolved, the decision was taken to postpone it...

MVRDV Serpentine MOUNTAIN

2004-09-29T23:34:00-04:00

Archined

has some images and a pic of the Pavil by MVRDV. Why not post more?! Previously...

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

2004-06-22T18:21:00-04:00

The 2004 Pavilion is now called 2004/2005 pavilion. It will still be designed by MVRDV who "has been working since early 2004 on a scheme that will redefine the concept of the Pavilion. Construction of this radical design begins late 2004 for opening spring 2005", as posted on the gallery's Website.