House NA by Sou Fujimoto, Image: Iwan Baan
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has been chosen to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
The Serpentine Gallery annually commissions international architects of worldwide acclaim to design a pavilion on the gallery’s lawn that provides a unique showcase for contemporary architectural practice. The pavilion is host to a special programme of film screenings, talks, the BBC proms and café.
Fujimoto said: “Within the pastoral context of Kensington Gardens, I envisage the vivid greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry. A new form of environment will be created, where the natural and the man-made merge; not solely architectural nor solely natural, but a unique meeting of the two.”
Previous architects who have created Serpentine Pavilions include: Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron, Oscar Niemeyer and Jean Nouvel.
Images my own
I’m so excited, he’s one of my favourite architects.
Sou Fujimoto recently worked with Toyo Ito on the Golden Lion award-winning Japanese pavilion for the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
House N by Sui Fujimoto, Images: Iwan Baan
Here is a link to all the posts I have written on Sou Fujimoto.
Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto
And here’s some previous Serpentine Pavilions.
