Black pavilion in hyde park

Temporary construction is an annual surprise for everyone who loves modern architecture. The pavilion lives throughout the summer and until mid-October: visitors to the gardens of South Kensington and Hyde Park rest here, bohemian parties and concerts are held.

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Eighteen years of Serpentine Galleries invites famous authors to build a pavilion for the summer. Over the years, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas took part in this project, and Zaha Hadid even designed the pavilion twice - in 2000 and 2007.

Since 2006, Frida Escobedo and her firm Taller de Arquitectura have been designing independently from small housing to museums and exhibition halls.

Frida Escobedo (born 1979) became the youngest architect in the history of the project. She was chosen by the “Council of Four”: curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist, director of Serpentine Galleries, Jan Peel, architects David Adjaye and Richard Rogers. She received her master’s degree from Harvard and has been teaching in her hometown of Iberoamerican University for more than ten years. Among his idols is Lin Bardi and Carlo Scarpa.

The Summer Pavilion in London is built of two straight perforated blocks installed at the same angle as the zero meridian of the Greenwich Observatory.

According to Escobedo, she created the pavilion as a Russian nesting doll, inspired by the image of the mosque in Cordoba and the dark textured surfaces of London buildings. The whole structure should contribute to peace and serenity, to provoke visitors to think about the time and speed of its flow.

Patio and lattice permeable walls are made of concrete. Mirror surfaces reflecting the construction of the steel pond and interior cladding panels.

• London, from June 15 until October.

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