Pavilions

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by
Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog and de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summer’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: they’ll conduct an archaeological dig to find traces of past pavilions on the site then line the resulting trenches with cork. More »

Bridge Studio by
Saunders Architecture

Slideshow: we’ve already featured three artists’ studios from Canadian Fogo Island, making this wooden hut on legs the fourth (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). More »

Squish Studio by
Saunders Architecture

Slideshow: here’s another of the six artists’ studios that Norwegian firm Saunders Architecture designed for an island off the coast of Canada, this time a white angular cabin (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). More »

Tower Studio by
Saunders Architecture

Slideshow: this small twisted tower is one of the six artists’ studios that Saunders Architecture of Norway are constructing on Fogo Island off the coast of Canada (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). More »

Designed in Hackney: The Sunday Stuga
by Liddicoat & Goldhill

The Sunday Stuga by Liddicoat & Goldhill

Designed in Hackney: London borough of Hackney architects Liddicoat & Goldhill have completed a garden cabin with a zigzagging facade that angles south towards the sun. More »

Noun 1. Unavailability by Gartnerfuglen

Noun 1. Unavailability by Gartnerfuglen

Recently established Norwegian architecture studio Gartnerfuglen have created a mobile fisherman’s hut with walls of ice, where a single inhabitant can isolate themselves from modern technology. More »

Capel Manor House Guest Pavilion
by Ewan Cameron Architects

Capel Manor House Guest Pavilion by Ewan Cameron Architects

Two guest suites in the grounds of a ruined Victorian house in Kent are separated by a walkway cast from concrete set against rough planks of wood. More »

Dezeen Screen: Gimme Shelter! by Sebastián
Irarrázaval and Hugo Mondragón

Cristobal Palma: Gimme Shelter! by Sebastián Irarrázaval and Hugo Mondragón

Dezeen Screen: photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs and a movie that he shot of the Chilean Pavilion at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011, where objects usually found in disaster relief shelters were used as furniture. Watch the movie » More »