Spiralling Serpentine

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25 April, 2007


The first images of this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Scandinavian duo architect Kjetil Torsen and artist Olafur Eliasson were unveiled today.

The timber-clad building spirals up from the gallery’s lawn, making two complete turns underneath a pinnacle offering views across London’s Kensington Gardens and into the chamber below.
This year’s structure was to be designed by Germany’s Frei Otto, but Thorsen and Eliasson stepped in after Otto’s designs proved too ambitious for the gallery to realise by July.

In a joint statement, Thorsen and Eliasson, who recently worked together on the New National Opera House in Oslo, said: “Our collaboration is defined by our mutual focus on the experience of space and on temporality as a constitutive element of spaces, private or public. We work within a field that renders conceptual differences between art and architecture superfluous.”
This is the eighth Serpentine Gallery Pavilion commission for an international architect who has not previously completed a building in the UK.
Past Pavilion architects include Rem Koolhaas (2006), Oscar Niemeyer (2003), Daniel Libeskind (2001) and Zaha Hadid (2000).

Fonte: BDonline