This year’s pavilion will be like a clearing between the trees, says its architects.


This year’s pavilion will be like a clearing between the trees, says its architects. TimesOnline


Next month the latest project lands in the park, as light and floaty as a butterfly. It’s easy to see why the Japanese firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) were picked: they are now perhaps the most visible Japanese architects in the world. At the end of 2007 their New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan opened to good reviews, a tower of metal and concrete boxes, offset, teetering, like a skyscraper made from children’s building blocks, frozen mid-collapse. Before that they had arrived in America with a diaphanous glass building for the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and broken into Europe with the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. They look set to continue, with a satellite of the Louvre in Lens, northern France, due in 2012.