Zaha Hadid Architects Serpentine Sackler Gallery London Zaha Hadid Architects’ first permanent structure in London—a restaurant building made from tensile fabric, steel, and glass—has something of the appearance of a carnival tent.
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto designed this year's temporary pavilion for London's Serpentine Gallery. The structure—a delicate 3,770-square-foot installation composed of thin steel poles—will serve as a social space and house a café. The pavilion will begin its four-month run on the gallery’s front lawn on June 8.
Collective memory was the driving force behind the latest incarnation of the annual, temporary Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei. To build a kind of manufactured archaeological site based on the previous 11 pavilions, the team created a drawing that fused the foundations of those structures into a single digital rendering, and then carved this form out of the ground.
Designed by Japanese firm SANAA with structural engineering by Japan-based SAPS and UK-based ARUP, this year’s structure promises to be a departure from years past, if only because SANAA, according to the partners Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, “started out trying not to make ‘architecture.’”
Part promenade, part amphitheater, Frank Gehry’s summer pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery, due to open in June, looks set to be one of the more elaborate and vivacious commissions in the gallery’s annual series. It marks Gehry’s first project in London and the first time he has collaborated with his son Samuel, who is part of the Gehry Partners design team. Arup will review the design, materials, and structure.
The Serpentine Gallery, in London, has chosen Frank Gehry to design this year’s summertime pavilion. Gehry is the first American to be commissioned to design the structure, which he will realize in four months for a June launch.
