ARTS PAVILION IN THE PARK
In honour of the London 2012 Olympic Games, the design team responsible for the Bird’s Nest stadium at the 2008 Beijing Olympics have been reunited to create the new Serpentine Pavilion. We take a look
The Pavilion's interior is clad in cork, which was chosen for its sustainable properties E ABOUT THE PAVILION
ach year the Serpentine Gallery commissions a dif- ferent architect to design its
temporary pavilion. In honour of the 2012 Olympics, the Beijing National Stadium-designers Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei were asked to design this year's structure. This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is
a sunken structure which takes visi- tors “beneath the Serpentine’s lawn to explore the hidden history of the previous pavilions.” It features 12 columns – one for each pavilion over the 12 years the Serpentine has been running the architectural programme – and an elevated plat- form roof, which collects rainwater but can also be drained in order to host dance performances.
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Serpentine Gallery Julia Peyton-Jones, Co-director
“It has been a great honour to work with Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei, the design team behind Beijing's superb Bird's Nest Stadium. In this exciting year for London we
are proud to be creating a connection between the Beijing 2008 and the London 2012 Games. We are enormously grateful for the help of everyone involved, especially Usha and Lakshmi N Mittal, whose incredible support has made this project possible."
Julia Peyton-Jones OBE Read Leisure Management online
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[The steel magnate Lakshmi N Mittal and his wife are lead supporters of the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion. It will enter their private collection once it has closed to the public in October.]
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