2015 Serpentine Pavilion
Subscribe now to instantly view this image
Subscribe to the Architects’ Journal (AJ) for instant access to the AJ Buildings Library, an online database of nearly 2,000 exemplar buildings in photographs, plans, elevations and details.
Already a subscriber? Sign in
The 15th temporary pavilion on the Serpentine’s lawn in London’s Kensington Gardens
The Pavilion is a double-skinned, polygonal structure consisting of panels of a translucent, multi-coloured fluorine-based polymer (ETFE) woven through and wrapped like webbing.
Visitors enter and exit the pavilion at a number of different points, passing through a ‘secret corridor’ between the outer and inner layer of the structure and into the Pavilion’s brilliant, stained glass-effect interior.
As with previous pavilion commissions, the brief was to design a flexible, multi-purpose social space with a café that is open throughout the summer.
Data
- Completed: Jul 2015
- Floor area: 179m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Address: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: SelgasCano
- Project architect: SelgasCano
- Client: Serpentine Gallery
- Structural engineer: AECOM
- Cost consultant: AECOM
- Construction: Stage One Creative Services
- Planning consultant: DP9