Iwan Baan

  • Photography
  • Books
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

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

Tags: Serpentine, Ai Weiwei, Herzog & de Meuron, London and UK

Other projects tagged with Serpentine, Ai Weiwei, Herzog & de Meuron, London and UK
Fuyang Cultual Complex, Fuyang, China – Wang Shu
Soumaya Museum, Mexico DF – Fernando Romero, FR-EE
Sumika House, Tokyo – Taira Nishizawa
Sendai Mediatheque – Toyo Ito
Library and Learning Centre University of Economics Vienna – Zaha Hadid
Galerie Kurimanzutto – Alberto Kalach
John Portman – Atlanta
Biobío Theater TRBB – Smiljan Radic
Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou China – Zaha Hadid Architects
Tulou Housing, Yongding, China
Art Biotop – Junya Ishigami
40 Bond Street, New York City – Herzog & de Meuron
HomeDefault40 Bond Street, New York City – Herzog & de Meuron
Iwan Baan Photography, Rozenstraat 145, 1016 NP Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: studio@iwan.com — all images © Iwan Baan 1996 - 2021