Final designs for the Serpentine Gallery’s annual summertime pavilion were unveiled in London yesterday. After a last-minute decision to postpone the German architect Frei Otto’s scheme, the gallery gave Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, co-founder of Snøhetta, and the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson a joint creative role. The duo created a top-like, spinning form clad in plywood with a steel structure flanked by a double-layer curved skin of teeth-like white baffles.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Eliasson said that their design takes its cue from “the dynamics of movement, exploring vertical circulation in a single space.” He added that it is intended “not to be about decoration but the interaction of people as they journey through the space.”
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