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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 – Herzog de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 – Herzog de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

2012

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and their Chinese collaborator Ai Weiwei will design this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion at Hyde Park in London, a special edition that will be part of the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. This will be the trio’s first collaborative built structure in the UK.

Back then, it was announced that their design will explore the hidden history of the previous installations, with eleven columns under the lawn of the Serpentine, representing the past pavilions and a twelfth column supporting a floating platform roof 1.4 metres above ground, which looks like a reflecting water-like surface in the renderings. The plan of the pavilion is based on a mix of the 11 previous pavilions’ layouts, pavilions that are represented as excavated foundations from which a new cork cladded landscape appears, as an archeological operation.

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

For Herzog & de Meuron and the Serpentine Gallery

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  • Herzog & de Meuron,
  • London,
  • Serpentine,
  • and UK

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