The Serpentine Gallery has announced its selection for the 18th annual Serpentine Pavilion: Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will design a temporary structure for the gallery’s lawn in London’s Kensington Gardens. Born in 1979, Escobedo is the youngest architect yet to accept the commission.
Renderings of Escobedo’s pavilion show two rectangular volumes with walls formed by a lattice of British-made cement roof tiles. The underside of a thin roof above the walls will be clad in a mirror surface that, together with a triangular pool cast into the pavilion floor, will allow light to bounce throughout the structure. “We have added the materials of light and shadow, reflection and refraction, turning the building into a timepiece that charts the passage of the day,” said the architect.
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