Lina Ghotmeh Wants You to Make Memories at Her Serpentine Pavilion – SURFACE
Nestled within a wooded clearing in London’s lush Kensington Gardens is this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, a rippling, low-slung structure that Lina Ghotmeh envisioned as a place that fosters lively discussion around the dinner table. Considering food as an expression of care and an opportunity to have moments of… Continue reading
Everyone gets a seat at the table with this year’s Serpentine Pavilion – The Spaces
Designer Lina Ghotmeh’s inclusive design sparks conversation about sustainability and sharing resources Source: Everyone gets a seat at the table with this year’s Serpentine Pavilion – The Spaces… Continue reading
In London’s Hyde Park, Lina Ghotmeh’s Serpentine Pavilion Invites Visitors to Gather | Architectural Record
Designed by the French-based Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is a deceptively simple structure made of glulam beams and timber posts, providing Kensington Gardens, one of London’s grand central parks, with an ornate wooden tent. Now in its third decade, the annual Serpentine Pavilion program… Continue reading
The Serpentine Pavilion 2023 is unveiled | Wallpaper
As the Serpentine Pavilion 2023 completes and prepares to open its doors to the public later this week, there’s hope that this spring’s few, timid days of sunshine in London will make for a slow-burn, warmer summer. And once temperatures rise – and even if not – the… Continue reading
Iwan Baan Captures the Story of Prague | Scale
World-renowned architecture photographer Iwan Baan showcases his urban pilgrimage through the streets of Prague in an exhibition at the Centre for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) in Prague that runs till August 20, 2023. Iwan Baan: Prague Dairy exhibition shows the city as raw, often neglected,… Continue reading
First look at Lina Ghotmeh’s 2023 Serpentine pavilion
Ghotmeh’s temporary summer structure in Kensington Gardens, London, is the 22nd in the gallery’s ongoing series of annual architectural commissions, which began in 2000 with Zaha Hadid (see full list of previous designers below). Source: First look at Lina Ghotmeh’s 2023 Serpentine pavilion… Continue reading
New Serpentine Pavilion is a delicate wonder of light spirits | Financial Times
Looking down on the newly built Serpentine Pavilion from the roof of the neighbouring gallery, it resembles one of those paper umbrellas you get on top of a more lurid cocktail. But it also contains an echo of the former Dell restaurant a little way along the banks… Continue reading
Concrete caves and extravagant butterflies in the American Museum of Natural History’s extension | Financial Times
Before her new bit of the building was slotted in, the museum was a little like the assault course devised by the entomologists for those ants: a challenging series of dead ends, dingy connecting links populated by dusty vitrines and odd corridors. A few hours before the extension… Continue reading
A Portal to Mountain Majesty: Montana’s Tippet Rise Art Center | Architect Magazine
It is difficult to capture the majesty of Tippet Rise Art Center, a 12,500-acre ranch in Montana that hosts both performance and sculptural art, in photographs. I sensed as much when the first images of the sculptures the owners, Cathy and Peter Halstead, commissioned there started appearing… Continue reading
Hermès Opens Leather Atelier in Normandy Designed by Lina Ghotmeh – Galerie
With a masterful design by Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, one of Galerie’s 2021 Creative Minds, the new Hermès leather atelier in Normandy perfectly encapsulates the French luxury brand’s twin commitments to sustainability and craftsmanship. Clad in over 500,000 locally-produced bricks, the innovative workshop is the second site in… Continue reading
Dutch Photographer Iwan Baan Speaks at NYCxDesign Ahead of a Retrospective at Germany’s Vitra Design Museum | Architectural Record
Opening this fall, the show is the first of its kind for Baan, a preeminent documentarian of the global built environment whose work has been featured in countless books and exhibitions but never with such an expansive scope, one that considers both his widely published architectural photography and… Continue reading
The Gilder Age | Martin Filler | The New York Review of Books
The American Museum of Natural History’s new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation completes that venerable teaching and research Source: The Gilder Age | Martin Filler | The New York Review of Books… Continue reading