Comments on: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 by Frank Gehry 2

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:08:02 +0000

Good old Gehry branded deconstuctivism (whether it’s his son’s design or not :P) . Sign on the dotted line and he’ll airlift in one of his famous sculptures before he’s even visited the site.
Visiting the pavilion I have indeed enjoyed digesting the exploded forms over a coffee but it would be nice to see a Gehry building that has any contextual reference to the location, cultural or geographical.
Art, yes. Architecture? hmmmmm

By: g22

g22 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:49:58 +0000

aw this brings a smile to my face. reminds me of his house in santa monica. old school gehry- love it :)

By: noodles

noodles — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:47:37 +0000

i like gehry .. but this looks too messy and clustered .. and what a waste of WOOD .. so much wood for something temporary.. well maybe they could use it for something else later (HOPEFULLY)

too much framing for the roof .. looks dizzy-ing .. maybe it wont look as bad when ure actually in it .. hmm .. or maybe not

and the stairs at the side! .. i dont know why but i was so focused on that .. its distracting and it doesnt blend in with the rest … its like “well thats a nice angle to take a photo from .. until u put the STAIRS IN!”

By: oped

oped — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:44:22 +0000

to make it short..

there is some interesting attempts at sculptural randomness as there are in good gehry projects.

but in the end its not good architecture, and it seems a bit of a waste of nice wood.

this project makes the modernist portions of my architectural education shiver in disgust, but maybee thats a good thing.

By: t

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:56:00 +0000

I like it alot, (for many reasons), look forward to visiting (for me it looks like a breath of fresh “wooden” air)..