Selected to design the 25th Serpentine Pavilion, LANZA atelier founders Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo discuss their serpentine-inspired proposal, the intelligence of modest forms, and how movement, materiality and collective experience shape their approach to architecture.
Marina Tabassum Architects’ 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, ‘A Capsule in Time’ brings a poetic, ephemeral structure to Kensington Gardens, drawing on the dynamic heritage of the Bengal Delta to create a versatile, light-filled gathering space.
Archipelagic Void by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Seoul-based studio Mass Studies is the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion and features five unique 'islands' cast in black timber.
Korean architect Minsuk Cho has been named as the designer of this year’s pavilion in London.
Visuals have been revealed for the 22nd edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion, a refined, circular timber structure designed by Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh.
Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has unveiled Black Chapel, a cylindrical gathering space designed with Adjaye Associates as the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens.
Visuals have been revealed for the 21st edition of the annual Serpentine Pavilion competition, a drum-shaped structure titled Black Chapel that has been designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates with Adjaye Associates.
The 2021 Serpentine Pavilion by Sumayya Vally of Johannesburg-based studio Counterspace splices together forms taken from meeting spaces – from bookshops to markets and places of worship – significant to migrant communities in London.
Junya Ishigama's elemental 2019 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
Jon Leach, director at AECOM, on realising architect Frida Escobedo's vision for the 2018 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
The 2017 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Francis Kéré.
