A water tank ballasts this wooden pavilion in Nara, Japan, designed by London practice Studio Armitage as a shelter for people working in the surrounding rice fields and allotments. More about Studio Armitage creates Field Shelter for people tending allotments in Nara
A recyclable timber pavilion designed to mimic wildflowers is among the prototypes built by students at BuildFest 2026, shown in this video produced by Dezeen. More about Recyclable Wildflower installation among timber prototypes at BuildFest 2026
US studio MOS Architects has used aluminium shingles to cover an egg-shaped pavilion at Art Omi in Upstate New York, creating a place to rest that draws stylistically on pre-modern basketry and mid-century futurism. More about MOS creates basket-like aluminium pavilion at Art Omi in New York
Chinese designer Bin Wu has unveiled the Pavilion of Time, which features timber screens topped by a circular mirror, in the courtyard of Domaine National du Palais-Royal for Paris Design Week. More about Bin Wu's mirror-topped Pavilion of Time aims to "make time tangible"
This year's London Design Festival landmark project, The Pangolin Shield, explores Britain and India's colonial history through a bamboo-grid pavilion covered with shields used both for protection and aggression. More about Studio Saar tops LDF pavilion with police and rain shields
Ecuadorian studio Caá Porá Arquitectura has worked with the local community to construct a pavilion in the Amazon rainforest that allows researchers to get a new perspective of the landscape in Pacto Sumaco, Ecuador. More about Caá Porá Arquitectura creates teaching pavilion in the Amazon rainforest
The fifth edition of Bali's Jia Curated design festival features pavilions that aim to put nature at the centre, including structures built from rice husks and salt bricks. Here are eight of the most interesting. More about Eight pavilion highlights from Jia Curated 2026
Thousands of mirrors line the gently undulating ceilings of the VISTA Science Experience Centre in Austria, completed by Dutch architecture practice Studio Maks with engineering firm Bollinger + Grohmann. More about Studio Maks tops science pavilion in Austria with undulating mirrored roof
A vast grid of red scaffolding surrounds The Reclaimed Pavilion, a temporary events space in India designed by local studio Kanan Modi Associates using materials that were salvaged from local construction sites. More about Red scaffolding surrounds temporary pavilion in India
Local architecture studio DoDesign has completed the Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in Chongqing, China, creating a shelter with gridded metal walls that are filled with thousands of loose cedar logs. More about Rearrangeable cedar logs fill walls of Nanhai Buddha Pavilion in China by DoDesign
Architecture firms Studio Folk Architects and Raskl have built a timber-framed greenhouse, named The Veggery, at the Barbican Estate as part of the London Festival of Architecture. More about Barrel-vaulted community greenhouse built at the Barbican
Architect Liz Gálvez has created a pavilion in the courtyard of Los Angeles cultural organisations Materials & Applications and Craft Contemporary using cord and earthen blocks to showcase the potential of urban shade. More about Liz Gálvez "reframes" air conditioning with shade pavilion in Los Angeles
Mexican studio Lanza Atelier drew on contrasting British and Mesoamerican interpretations of the serpent when designing this year's Serpentine Pavilion, said the architects in an exclusive video interview with Dezeen. More about "The serpent is something that provides protection" says Lanza Atelier
Architecture studio Dum-Dum Laboratorio de Arquitectura Avanzada has created a waterside pavilion out of red painted wood that serves as an environmental classroom for the local community in Calbuco, Chile. More about Dum-Dum Lab constructs lakeside pavilion as environmental classroom
The Serpentine has installed a colourful, kinetic sculpture by Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto alongside this year's Lanza Atelier-designed Serpentine Pavilion in central London. More about Jesús Rafael Soto's bright yellow kinetic sculpture installed in London
Mexican studio Lanza Atelier has created A Serpentine, a snaking brick-walled structure for the 25th edition of the Serpentine Pavilion in London. More about Lanza Atelier designs snaking brick Serpentine Pavilion in London
Artist Theaster Gates and landscape designer Sara Zewde have designed a pavilion from recovered building materials that will be a community centre in a historic Black neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. More about Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston's Freedmen's Town
Architecture studio Lanza Atelier explains how the history of the Serpentine Pavilion informed the design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen. More about Lanza Atelier draws on historic "crinkle-crankle" walls for Serpentine Pavilion 2026
London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has constructed a wooden pavilion that is cube-shaped on the outside but spherical on the inside for Global Design Forum Istanbul. More about Waugh Thistleton builds "simple and repetitive" timber pavilion on grounds of historic Istanbul palace
Danish studio Spacon has completed a welcome pavilion for Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, featuring a multifunctional table with hidden pull-out display drawers and decorated stools. More about Spacon designs "practical and inviting" welcome pavilion for Copenhagen's Rosenborg Castle