today i got down to this years serpentine pavilion in hyde park by SANAA for the second time and honestly i went down again because the first time i was with a group of people and i thought i had been too distracted and therefore did not manage to properly experience the pavilion and surely enough on the second visit.... i was still highly disappointed. Now being aware of the design and reading all about i had come with various preconceptions and none of which were true nothing, not the delicate fragility or beauty of the thin columns supporting a wafer thin roof with a reflective underbelly that created continuity with its surroundings nothing, that sense of an ephemeral structure thats just passing by in Iwan Bans photos that i really looked forward to, nothing none of that... i must admit the way the columns seamlessly met the ground was a nice detail but otherwise the detailing was coming apart with some roof panels obviously not doing so well. this being the second serpentine i experience i definitely appreciate gehrys effort even if it was a tad out of scale at least it confronted you in that way and intrigued with its various levels of detail and experience... while this one as some one i know put it .. "is a cafe"