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 2007 Addition is a Snail Shaped Timber Structure Each year, London’s Serpentine Gallery releases a temporary pavilion designed by a cutting edge architect. The 2007 pavilion, designed by Oafur Eliasson, has just been unveiled. The Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, known for being the artist who decked Tate Modern’s entrance hall with a blazing sun in 2003, revealed his plans to create the pavilion as a giant snail shaped building in London’s Hyde Park. The pavilion which Eliasson drew up with Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, known for designing the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, is a timber-sheathed structure resembling a spinning top. Visitors will be able to go up two levels on a spiraling ramp and peer down at a central arena in the pavilion. This gallery shows some of the winning Serpentine Gallery Pavilions from past years.  Eliasson told reporters in a presentation that they should focus not just on a "snapshot'' of the outer facade, but on the human interaction going on inside.
"This is not about decoration. This is not about fun. It's about societies and living together''
Every year since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery puts up a temporary summer pavilion that is designed in six months, has no startup budget, and requires the same planning permissions that a permanent building would. At the end of the period, the pavilion is dismantled.
This year marks the first time the pavilion is designed by an artist-and-architect team. Previous designers have been architects, starting with Zaha Hadid [who's work we've introduced earlier on Trendhunter] in 2000 and leading up to Rem Koolhaas and his inflatable bubble-topped pavilion in 2006.
(bloomberg)References: serpentinegallery.org, bloomberg Comment: on Serpentine Gallery Pavilions |
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