Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007
by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen
24 August – 5 November 2007
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 is now closed. more...
Lilas:
An installation by Zaha Hadid Architects
12 July – 21 July 2007
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, Partner at Zaha Hadid Architect’s designed a temporary installation on the occasion of the Gallery’s world-renowned fundraiser The Summer Party, which took place on 11 July. It was sited on the lawn... more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006,
by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, with Arup
The Serpentine Pavilion 2006 was co-designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and innovative structural designer Cecil Balmond. The centrepiece of the design was a spectacular ovoid-shaped inflatable canopy that floated above the Gallery’s lawn. more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005
by Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
with Cecil Balmond – Arup
In designing the Pavilion, Siza sought to ‘guarantee that the new building – while presenting a totally different architecture – established a “dialogue” with the Neo-classical house’. The result was a structure that mirrored the
domestic scale of the Serpentine and articulated the landscape between the two buildings. more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003
by Oscar Niemeyer
The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 was both simple and ingenious. Built in steel, aluminium, concrete and glass, its ruby-red ramp contrasted with the surprise of a partly submerged auditorium, affording views across the park. It also housed specially conceived wall drawings by Niemeyer. more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002
by Toyo Ito with Arup
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. more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2001
by Daniel Liebeskind
with Arup
Highlighting the beauty of the Gardens and their connection to the Gallery, Eighteen Turns was created from sheer metallic planes assembled in a dynamic sequence. Clad in aluminium panels creating brilliant reflections of light, the structure revealed an entirely new perspective of the greenery of the park and the brick building of the Gallery. more...
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2000
by Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid’s structure radically reinvented the accepted idea of a tent or a marquee. It took the form of a triangulated roof structure spanning an impressive internal space of 600sq metres by using a steel primary
structure. more...
