Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 gives England the first built project by legendary architect Frank Gehry. Watch a time-lapse film of the Pavilion's construction.

The spectacular structure -- designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup -- is anchored by four massive steel columns and is comprised of large timber planks and a complex network of overlapping glass planes that create a dramatic, multi-dimensional space. Gehry and his team took inspiration for this year's Pavilion from a fascinating variety of sources including the elaborate wooden catapults designed by Leonardo da Vinci as well as the striped walls of summer beach huts. Part-amphitheatre, part-promenade, these seemingly random elements make a transformative place for reflection and relaxation by day, and discussion and performance by night.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Designed by Frank Gehry
20 July - 19 October

Production Company: General
Filmed & Edited by Ben Magahy and James Simpson
Accompanied by Frank's Build, 2008, by Simon Fisher Turner, a composition produced by randomly recording the construction of the Pavilion.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Serpentine
• Pavilion
• Gehry
• visual
• arts

[camwcooper]

The definition of an Architectural Clusterf*ck

[Dwatthaell]

So I guess all that is needed to be a "legendary architect" is to drop a lot of acid and figure out how to build the weird crap that you see as reality is melting? I suppose that does take some real skill, but I sure as heck wouldn't commission him were it my dime..

[indi85]

@anyayerots hyde park isnt the most famous park of the world. Its probalby one of them but not THE one.

Just take the Central Park NY, the English and there are much more to count on that level.

[ninoacido]

These non accounting Divas

Very Fast, very efficient, very ugly

[hockney100]

5 slides would've been more exciting.

[therandomchick4]

i think it looks amazing

[polkadots55]

hm..

[thisisgeneral]

this looks amazing