Here are some more photographs of Jean Nouvel's recently-opened Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, London, this time taken by French photographer Julien Lanoo. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.
The seriously red temporary pavilion will be open to the public until 17 October.
More information and images by Philippe Ruault can be seen in our earlier story.
Photographs are copyright Julien Lanoo.
More about Jean Nouvel in our special category.
See also:
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 by SANAA (and here and here)
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 by Frank Gehry (and here and here)
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 by Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen of Snøhetta (and here and here)
Our roundup of Serpentine Gallery Pavilions over the years (published last summer)
And also...
Dezeen's top ten pavilions
All our stories about pavilions
Enjoy!
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drawings?
drab drab drab, such a shame….
i thought it was supposed to be red.
This is more like burnt umber.
Strong influence of Russian constructivism during `20
I don’t know where the influence came from…but I went there and thought it was pretty average. Last year’s was nicer.
You’ve toned the colours down somewhat in these photos, in actual fact it is so red and vibrant it takes you aback… Inside the central space your view of the world is totally changed, the greens of the surrounding trees are exaggerated, you feel part of a strange cinematic effect and you can’t tell exactly what’s in the cup you’re drinking from. Sometimes architecture should assault your senses and this is an occasion when it does just that.
So it imparts a special spatial experience just by virtue of its colour? That would seem like a cop-out to me; try and visualize the pavilion in the normalized material vocabulary of regular buildings and you would see that spatially its nothing special, the only interest it brings comes from its red colour, in which case it is (in terms of form & space) devoid of any architectural interest, the swooping wall becomes extraneous. Better to just make it a box. I do agree that the colour creates a cinematic effect though.