This year's Serpentine Pavilion, inspired by London's immigrant gathering spaces, opens a year later than planned
The latest iteration of the Serpentine Pavilion is now open in London after more than a year of COVID-related delays. South African studio Counterspace had to wait 10 months to present its final design after being named to the commission in February of 2020. Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace, Exterior View © Counterspace Photo: Iwan BaanThe women-led team completed the commission's 20th Pavilion using repurposed materials including wine corks, steel, and cement leftover from marble production. This culminated in a carbon-negative building six meters in height that brought together elements from the city’s disparate migrant enclaves in an amalgam of typologies meant to articulate different scales of intimacy, according to Counterspace’s founder Sumayya Vally. Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace, Interior View © Counterspace Photo: Iwan BaanTo gain perspective for the structure, Vally spent four months in the city looking for gathering spaces that typifi...
The latest iteration of the Serpentine Pavilion is now open in London after more than a year of COVID-related delays.
South African studio Counterspace had to wait 10 months to present its final design after being named to the commission in February of 2020.
The women-led team completed the commission's 20th Pavilion using repurposed materials including wine corks, steel, and cement leftover from marble production. This culminated in a carbon-negative building six meters in height that brought together elements from the city’s disparate migrant enclaves in an amalgam of typologies meant to articulate different scales of intimacy, according to Counterspace’s founder Sumayya Vally.
To gain perspective for the structure, Vally spent four months in the city looking for gathering spaces that typifi...
