Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002
by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond with Arup

'Why can't all new buildings be this good? Toyo Ito's magical summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is a lesson in imagination.' Evening Standard

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 appeared to be an extremely complex random pattern that proved, upon careful examination, to derive from an algorithm of a cube that expanded as it rotated. The numerous triangles and trapezoids formed by this system of intersecting lines were clad to be either transparent or translucent, giving a sense of infinitely repeated motion.


















































































































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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup.
Photograph © Sylvain Deleu.
TASCHEN has provided the images and the book Serpentine Gallery Pavilions includes more photos and illustrations of the Pavilion commissions.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup.
Photograph © Sylvain Deleu.
TASCHEN has provided the images and the book Serpentine Gallery Pavilions includes more photos and illustrations of the Pavilion commissions.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup.
Photograph © Nick Guttridge/VIEW

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup.
Photograph © Sylvain Deleu.
TASCHEN has provided the images and the book Serpentine Gallery Pavilions includes more photos and illustrations of the Pavilion commissions.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond - with Arup.
Photograph © Sylvain Deleu.
TASCHEN has provided the images and the book Serpentine Gallery Pavilions includes more photos and illustrations of the Pavilion commissions.