Weekend one of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has concluded. Amongst the food trucks run by celebrated chefs, and sets by Grammy artists such as Kacey Musgraves, architects like Francis Kéré were busy activating the polo field with large-scale art installations.  

The Berlin-based Burinabé architect, who has designed the highly-coveted Serpentine pavilion, revealed a new project this week. Inspired by the baobab tree, native to his home country, Kéré and the Coachella team built 12 conical structures, some as tall as 60 feet, that provided shade to festival-goers. 

Thanks to Paul Clemente, the festival's art director, the art at Coachella has continued to grow in scale as the festival has become an increasingly popular place for architects and artists to showcase their work. 

“You don’t have to bring people to architecture, you can bring architecture to people,” Andrew Kovacs told the New York Times of his interest in Coachella. Mr. Kovacs, who designed a collection of colorful cactuses, was another architect to display work at the festival this year.

Some of these works will become permanent public art pieces, but others will forever disappear after the two-weekend event ends. For those unable to attend, here's a visual recap of the installations worth remembering.

Office Kovacs, Colossal Cacti

Francis Kéré, Sarbalé ke

Peggy Noland, Foiled Plan

NEWSUBSTANCE, Spectra

Dedo Vabo, H.i.P.O.