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JUNE 9, 2023

They say Londoners never interact with strangers and avoid eye contact on the Tube at all costs. But French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh’s interactive design for the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion invites strangers to sit beside each other – and perhaps even start a conversation. Photo: Iwan Baan, Courtesy: Serpentine.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has created a glulam structure named À Table for the 2023 Serpentine Pavilion in central London , which was informed by table discussions and the surrounding tree canopy. The pavilion has a nine-sided shape with scalloped edges that were informed by nearby tree roots.

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The Spaces

JUNE 7, 2022

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 designed by Theaster Gates © Theaster Gates Studio. Courtesy: Serpentine. In this way, he seems an obvious choice as the first non-architect to design a summer pavilion for the Serpentine Galleries, since the first was built by Zaha Hadid 22 years ago. Courtesy: Serpentine.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The pavilion will feature a suspended pleated roof supported by ‘sustainably sourced timber ribs’ Architecture Design render, interior view. Image © Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture Courtesy: Serpentine. Social artist Theaster Gates designed the 2022 pavilion, dubbed Black Chapel, as a space for reflection and ecstasy.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

This week on Dezeen , South Korean architect Minsuk Cho revealed his star-shaped design for the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion. Cho, who is the founder of architecture practice Mass Studies, was announced by the Serpentine Gallery as the designer of this year's pavilion and released the first visuals of the building.

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The Spaces

JUNE 2, 2023

The Serpentine’s South Gallery is hosting Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s first UK solo show, Web(s) of Life, named in honour of the artist’s fascination with arachnids. Intricate, silken webs woven by spiders are the key focus of the London exhibition, which features several complex examples housed in glass boxes.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

American artist Theaster Gates has unveiled his concept for this year's Serpentine Pavilion , which will take the form of a wooden pavilion that references Stoke-on-Trent's bottle kilns. Theaster Gates (above) is the designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion (top image).

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JUNE 2, 2023

Architect Lina Ghotmeh discusses her design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for the gallery. The pavilion will be open to the public in June. The pavilion will be open to the public in June. Ghotmeh explained. "As

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e-architect

JUNE 5, 2023

Inspired by the architect’s Mediterranean heritage and fervent discussions around the table over current affairs, politics, personal lives, and dreams, the Pavilion is titled À table – a French call to sit down together at a table to engage and participate in dialogue while sharing a meal. Photo: Iwan Baan, Courtesy: Serpentine.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Read more about Al Musallah prayer hall › Photo is by Iwan Baan 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, UK, by Smiljan Radić Chilean architect Smiljan Radić created a pebble-like form for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2014 from a paper-thin layer of white fibreglass.

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JUNE 9, 2022

The 2022 Serpentine Pavilion is more sustainable than last year's "carbon-negative" design thanks to its reusable foundations and timber floor, say its engineers AECOM. This year's edition of the annual London commission is a timber drum designed by American artist Theaster Gates. Instead, a raised timber floor was installed.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The studio specialises in architecture and research with offices in Johannesburg and London. Vally was selected to design the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion. Photo by Iwan Baan At 30, Vally went on to become the youngest architect to be commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery to design its annual architecture pavilion in 2021.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Continuing our review of 2023 , we round up the top 10 Dezeen videos of the year, which include exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Sou Fujimoto, as well as collaborations with the Barbican Centre and the Serpentine Galleries.  Ghotmeh told Dezeen how she aimed to create a space where people could connect with one another.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno has changed the HVAC and electrical system of the Serpentine gallery in London , in an effort to make an exhibition for all the nearby species. I'm very happy to think that for the first time at the Serpentine, there are many spiderweb pavilions."

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Since 2000, the Serpentine has been inviting excellent architects from around the world to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London. The temporary pavilion standing from June to October every year has become one of the most exciting annual events for architects and the cultural industry.

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MAY 4, 2023

In a new collaboration with The Conran Shop, Lina Ghotmeh has designed two new exclusive pieces of furniture for this year’s Pavilion. Crafted from oak, with a dark-red finish, the 25 tables and 57 stools will come together to complete a ceremonial display inside the Pavilion. More information here.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This is a subject that we have been more and more interested in," the co-founder of London design practice Blast Studio Paola Garnousset told Dezeen. The studio is now working on an outdoor pavilion whose intricately structured columns will accommodate ladybirds, bees and birds. "The

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Architizer

JANUARY 10, 2023

An elegant canopy of timber “leaves” will be unveiled in London’s Kensington Gardens this summer. Late last month, the announcement was made that Lebanon-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh will design the 22nd Annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Gordon Gallery is a glowing new art hub in Jerusalem , located in a former industrial space that’s been transformed by Salty Architects. The Tel Aviv studio removed the building’s original facade, replacing it with a glass wall that allows the gallery to be opened up to the concrete balcony outside. Photography: Gideon Levine.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

Serpentine Pavilion designer Theaster Gates explains the role of architecture in his artistic practice in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery. Artist Theaster Gates designed the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion. Architecture does the same.".

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Real-life exhibition-goers can experience Open at 303 Gallery in New York , Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zürich, Regen Projects in LA or Victoria Miro in London, but the show can also be enjoyed remotely. Courtesy the artist; 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Victoria Miro, London; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Plans were revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Drawing inspiration from the significance of the great kilns of Stoke-on-Trent, the Pavilion will pay homage to British craft and manufacturing traditions. An operating bell, originating from the demolished St.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh says that her restrained and environmentally conscious Serpentine Pavilion reflects current views on architecture in this exclusive interview. My first approach was to think about what the Serpentine commission actually is," she said. Top photo by Dezeen. Above photo by Iwan Baan.

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JULY 7, 2022

A pink-concrete canopy shelters a seating area around a small garden at the Courtyard Pavilion in Hargeisa, the capital of the autonomous region of Somaliland, designed by local studio Rashid Ali Architects. Rashid Ali Architects has created a concrete pavilion in Hargeisa. The pavilion sits on a concrete base wrapped by a low wall.

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The Spaces

APRIL 6, 2022

And the design of his Benin National Assembly building and the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in London are based on great trees, which in west African tradition are meeting places and places of discussion. Serpentine Pavilion 2017, designed by Francis Kéré. ’ Burkina Institute of Technology.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Vally is the founder and principal of Counterspace , an architecture and research firm rooted in South Africa, with operations spanning between Johannesburg and London. Exhibitions by Large include Some Vibrant Things at Nilufar Gallery in Milan, which showcased a series of iridescent sculptures based on digital shapes.

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Architizer

MARCH 29, 2023

In London, the 1967 opening of the UFO Club, designed by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, heralded a new era for countercultural gatherings and developed a space that would not only reflect their way of thinking but encourage others to think and experience in new ways.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Photo and photo above credits: Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. Photo credits: Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Donations from the Tangs, trustees of the museum, will now allow the long-standing project to move forward with a new prospective design will include 80,000 square feet (7,400 square metres) of gallery and public space, according to the museum. The tweet was later deleted.

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Architizer

MARCH 2, 2022

Kéré Architecture designed Xylem, the gathering pavilion for the Tippet Rise Art Centre, as a quiet, protective shelter. Inside the pavilion, sunlight filters through the vertical logs, creating a soft play of light and shadow on the curvilinear seating and polished concrete circular platform below. Interior of the Serpentine Pavilion.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Dezeen teamed up with CDUK for this live talk, hosted in Dezeen's new Studio Space in London. Sumayya Vally on the Serpentine Pavillion 2021. To celebrate the unveiling of the 2021 Serpentine Pavillion , Dezeen broadcast an in-person interview between Serpentine Gallery artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Sumayya Vally.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

London design duo Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd won designer of the year for their studio Person Lloyd and Parisian Audrey Large was named emerging designer of the year. The East London office recently collaborated with Flokk -owned furniture brand Profim to create a reconfigurable and recyclable workplace seating system.

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APRIL 5, 2022

London fashion designer Tolu Coker and Niamey architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara round out the cohort of creatives, who will each receive financial support to work on new or continuing projects. Those based in New York include Kyle Abraham, dance; Yemi Amu, agriculture; and Salome Asega, art, technology and design.

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MARCH 8, 2024

A recipient of the London Design Medal in 2020 , Antonelli is a thought leader on designing a better future for the planet , curating the Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival exhibition held at the 2019 Triennale Milano.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Photo is by Genevieve Lutkin The Mirror Mirror exhibition began as a collaboration between Chatsworth House and the Friedman Benda art gallery in New York, with whom some of the chosen creatives are affiliated. Among the designers exhibiting work is Faye Toogood.

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Architizer

JANUARY 21, 2022

The firm’s multidisciplinary culture produced a stunningly hybrid art gallery-bridge project, The Twist (Kistefos Gallery) , which embraces three landscapes that overlap and intertwine. Finally, the third landscape is that of the continuously evolving gallery — a topography composed of sculptures and art objects.

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Architizer

APRIL 7, 2022

London is a city that has been forced to redevelop constantly. In addition, London’s galleries and museums nurture a design culture with thought-provoking exhibitions about space and society, including the ever-popular Serpentine Pavilion. 1 Old Jewry , London, United Kingdom.

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