Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   Open to the public from 9 June to 29 October is the temporary pavilion of the popular Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London. For this summer the commission went to the Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980), who designed a round

Counterspace Studio   United Kingdom   This year’s summer pavilion of the Serpentine, the popular gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens, opens to the public on 11 June, a year after it was supposed to, thanks to the Covid-19 crisis. It was designed by Counterspace, the South African firm

Sou Fujimoto   United Kingdom   Every year the Serpentine Gallery in London chooses an international architect to build a temporary installation. The pavilion of 2013, designed by Sou Fujimoto, is inspired by the evanescence of clouds, inviting people to explore the place in a new

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United Kingdom   In summer of 2016 came BIG’s turn to build the temporary pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery, the popular art institution located in London’s Kensington Gardens. The project was conceived as a provocative installation combining what are often perceive

Frida Escobedo   Visitable from 15 June to 7 October in Kensington Gardens, London, the Serpentine Gallery’s pavilion this year is designed by the firm of Frida Escobedo (Mexico City, 1979). Formed by two lattice-wrapped rectangular volumes, it fuses typical Mexican

Diébédo Francis Kéré Kéré Architecture   United Kingdom   Every year the Serpentine Gallery in London chooses an international architect to build a temporary pavilion in Kensington Gardens. The pavilion of 2017, designed by Francis Kéré, is conceived as a microcosm: a community structure that fuses cultural

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United Kingdom   The project incorporates concepts perceived as opposites (modular/ sculptural, transparent/ opaque...), and works with a basic architectural element, the brick wall, turned into a space built with blocks of translucent fiberglass... 

Selgascano   United Kingdom   The four arms that form the layout of the pavilion each present a different entrance, but they all converge in a central space, a larger hall where visitors can come together.

SANAA   United Kingdom   In 2009, the Serpentine Gallery in London commissioned the design of its ninth summer pavilion to Sejima & Nishizawa. Located in Kensington Gardens, the structure was constructed as an undulating aluminum sheet resting on light metallic columns float

Herzog & de Meuron Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   Every summer since the year 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the Serpentine Gallery’s Pavilion, located by the permanent building in Kensington Gardens, an area inside London’s Hyde Park. In 2012, the gallery commissioned

Herzog & de Meuron Ai Weiwei   United Kingdom   As every summer since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents the temporary pavilion located in Kensington Gardens, designed this time by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and by the Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei. Taking an arc

SANAA Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa   United Kingdom   Held up by delicate supports, the temporary pavilion’s lightweight, undulating, aluminum-clad wooden roof floats among the trees of Kensington Gardens, reflecting the landscape on its mirror surface.

Toyo Ito   United Kingdom   Situada en un pabellón de té neoclásico construido en 1934 y rodeada por los excepcionales jardines de Kensington, en Hyde Park, la Serpentine Gallery ha sido desde su fundación en 1970 un enclave privilegiado para el arte moderno y contemporáneo en

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The 23rd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion, due to open in June, is the work of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, and his company Mass Studies. The first Korean architect to be selected for the prestigious commission, he plans to create a cluster o

Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been selected to conceive the 22nd Pavilion. Ghotmeh’s Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South in June 2023.  This pioneering and prestigious commission, which began in 2000 with Dame Zaha

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea. A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensingt

Fed up perhaps with all the artsy airs that architects sometimes take on, the Serpentine Gallery in London has this year decided to assign its summer pavilion directly to a conceptual artist. Eclectically trained in urban planning and ceramics throug

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Inspired by the kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Chicago artist’s Black Chapel will host bands, including his own, and also provide ‘a place of quietude’ where even the British weather is welcome. The Serpentine Gallery’s annual summer pavilion will take

Artnet   Taylor Dafoe   Chicago artist Theaster Gates has been tapped to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the prestigious project. A spokesperson for Serpentine Gallery confirmed Gate’s commission for the pavil

Two words describe the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion this year, built by the Japanese architect Junya Ishigami: picturesque and polemic. It is picturesque because, of all the Serpentine Pavilions raised in London’s Kensington Gardens to date,

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   Junya Ishigami’s hillock of Cumbrian slate was meant to feel ‘primitive and ancient’. But British regulations – and the wind – dashed his dreams. Is it time to rethink the annual event?

Since 2000 the Serpentine Gallery has been putting up a pavilion on the lawn of Kensington Gardens for the warm months. This temporary structure has become the great summer benchmark of current architecture, biennials aside. At times drawing from con

This year’s summer pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery has just opened to the public, to little surprise with respect to the computer rendering that was presented a few months ago by its author, the Burkina Faso-born Berlin-based architect Diébédo Fra

When he was 18, Diébédo Francis Kéré was awarded a scholarship to be a carpentry apprentice in Germany, but the fact that wood is scarce in his country, Burkina Faso, led him to decide to study something more useful: architecture. Now an internationa

Born with the millennium, the Serpentine project was entrusted to a purely artistic view of architecture, a view where use – in this case the questionable use of a small summer pavilion – was understood as a mere trigger of ephemeral buildings, folie

In time for summer every year, the Serpentine Gallery in London has a temporary pavilion designed by a leading architect who has not yet built in the United Kingdom, and raised on its grounds in Kensington Gardens. It recently unveiled the first imag

The Spanish practice SelgasCano will be designing the Serpentine Gallery’s summer pavilion this year. With this decision the London institution seems to be confirming the change of course it seemed to make last year, when it assigned the popular icon

In the wake of Peter Zumthor’s courtyard, Herzog & de Meuron’s oval, and Sou Fujimoto’s poles, we have Smiljan Radic’s translucent stone. In charge of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the Chilean architect is for sure the least known in the list

Since the first of them in 2000, the summer pavilions that the Serpentine Gallery raises beside its building in London’s Kensington Gardens have been an exceptional year-by-year showcase of the marriage of art and architecture. Designed by the Japane

Descubrir la huella permanente dejada por la cimentación de edificios concebidos para ser efímeros es el objeto —poético y un tanto paradójico a la vez— del nuevo pabellón para la Galería Serpentine, que acaba de inaugurarse en Londres y que podrá vi

Peter Buchanan   Desde su primera edición en 2000, la convocatoria de los pabellones de la Galería Serpentine constituye un singular escaparate mediático donde se funden el arte y la arquitectura.

A lo largo de once años, las sucesivas ediciones del pabellón de verano de la londinense Serpentine Gallery han tenido como autores a algunas de las estrellas más rutilantes del panorama arquitectónico contemporáneo, como Rem Koolhaas, Kazuyo Sejima,

Siguiendo la estela de anteriores ediciones en las que participaron, entre otras figuras, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas o el reciente pritzker Souto de Moura, Peter Zumthor ha presentado las primeras imágenes de su propuesta para el pabellón temporal de

Jacobo García-Germán   Inmaculada Maluenda   Enrique Encabo   Considerado como uno de los más innovadores comisarios de arte, el codirector de la Serpentine Gallery Hans Ulrich Obrist explica, a raíz de la publicación de su libro Brief History of Curating, las claves de su profesión y sus afinidades con la arqu

Se ha inaugurado el nuevo pabellón de verano de la Serpentine Gallery de Londres, un diseño del estudio japonés SANAA formado por Kazuyo Sejima y Ryue Nishizawa. La estructura, sustentada por pilares muy esbeltos, consiste en una cubierta ondulante d