Jacques Herzog, Ai Weiwei and Pierre de Meuron © Courtesy of Serpentine Gallery

Today, the Serpentine Gallery announced the team that will design the twelfth edition of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, a special edition that will be part of the  London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad.

Every year the gallery invites a renowned international architects who has not built yet in the UK, to design a temporary pavilion that hosts public activities in at the Gallery’s lawn, in London’s Hyde Park between June and October 2012. The list of architects for the past editions includes several Pritzker laureates. More info of this program at our Serpentine Gallery Pavilion infographic.

This years teams includes Pritzker laureate architects Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (runner up of TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year). The trio has worked together in projects such as ORDOS 100 in the Mongolian desert and the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games. As a trio they don’t have any built projects in the UK, but Herzog & de Meuron have been involved in several, including the Tate Modern renovation and its current expansion.

Their design will explore the  hidden history of the previous installations (more info), with eleven columns under the lawn of the Serpentine, representing the past pavilions and a twelfth column supporting a floating platform roof 1.5 metres above ground. Taking an archaeological approach, the architects have created a design that will inspire visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time across the ghosts of the earlier structures.

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© Christian Richters

Architect: de architectegroep, rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gamerenmastenbroek bv
Location: National Park Veluwe Zoom, Rheden, The Netherlands
Project Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek [now SeARCH]
Assistants: Geert Vennix, Alexandra Bonazzi, Willmar Groenendijk, Mark Sloof, Pien Linssen, Michael Davis
Client: Vereniging Natuurmonumenten ’s-Gravezand
Contractor: BAM utiliteitsbouw, Arnhem
Project Area: 640 sqm
Photographs: Christian Richters

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Courtesy of Architectkidd

Architect: Architectkidd
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Design Team: Luke Yeung, PailinPaijitsattaya, PhuttipanAswakool
Exhibition Design: DesignLAB
Client Representative: Dentsu Thailand
Structural Design: MontreeSayabovorn
Contractor: Pico Thailand
Project Area: 500 sqm
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: PhuttipanAswakool, Luke Yeung
   
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© Thibault Marcilly

Architect: Thibault Marcilly
Location: Aube (department), France
Construction: Thibault Marcilly, Jeanne Ader, Amandine Marcilly, Claude Marcilly, Marithé Marcilly, Jean Luc Marcilly, Baptiste Marcilly, Brigitte Marcilly
Size: 4 sqm, 2m/2m wide, 3,80m height
Project Year: September 2011
Photographs: Thibault Marcilly

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© Laura Stamer

Architects: MLRP
Location: Fælledparken (Central Park), Corner of Blegdamsvej/Frederik V vej, Copenhagen, Denmark
Engineers: Grontmij A/S
Landscape: GHB Landscape A/S
Contractor: A.F.Hansen
Client: City of Copenhagen (CAU)
Project Area: 140 sqm
Photographs: Laura Stamer

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© ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgart

Architects: Oliver David Krieg, Boyan Mihaylov
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Project Team: Institute for Computational Design – Prof. AA Dipl.(Hons) Achim Menges Achim Menges, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers, Competence Network Biomimetics Baden-Württemberg
Planning and Realisation: Peter Brachat, Benjamin Busch, Solmaz Fahimian, Christin Gegenheimer, Nicola Haberbosch, Elias Kästle, Oliver David Krieg, Yong Sung Kwon, Boyan Mihaylov, Hongmei Zhai
Scientific Development: Markus Gabler (project management), Riccardo La Magna (structural design), Steffen Reichert (detailing), Tobias Schwinn (project management), Frédéric Waimer (structural design)
Surface: 72 sqm
Volume: 200m³
Material: 275 sqm Birch plywood 6,5mm Sheet thickness
Project Year: August 2011
Photographs: ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgart

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Courtesy of Morris Architects

Morris Architects shared with us their Houston Pavilion for the 8th China International Garden Expo in Chongqing, China, which is a showcase for a variety of landscape typologies throughout China and the world. The theme, “Better Garden, Better City”, promotes harmony between landscaped and built spaces. The City of Houston is one of thirty-two international cities invited to participate in the Expo. Morris Architects partnered with SWA Group to design the Houston Pavilion. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© AWP - HHF, Sbda

The series of a pavilions with different public functions and programs by AWP + HHF Architects are part of a future 113 hectare large public green space along the Seine river, in Carrière-Sous-Poissy, at the end station of the RER line A and close the renown Villa Savoye from Le Corbusier. The Park designed by the Paris based landscape architects Agence TER will be a public park and ecological showcase for local residents and a leisure destination for people living in and around Paris. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Francisco Giménez Carbó, Jason Kao, Patricia Meneses

Architects: Studio Patricia Meneses
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Collaborators: Francisco Giménez Carbó, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Jeanne de Bussac, Gosia Kierzerk, Salomé Ayuso
Photographs: Francisco Giménez Carbó, Jason Kao, Patricia Meneses

   
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© James Ewing

Architects: Architecture Research Office
Location: Beacon, New York, USA
Project Team: Principal-in-charge: Adam Yarinsky; Project Team: Jeff Hong (project architect), Neil Patel, Jejon Yeung, Si Eun Lee
Gross Square Footage: Barn = 8,000 SF; Pavilion = 2,700 SF
Total Project Cost (including park): $8,720,000
Client: Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc.
Photographs: James Ewing

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© Filip Šlapal

Architects: SGL Projekt s.r.o.  – Jiří javůrek, Vladimír Thiele
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Date completed: 03/2010
Photographs: Filip Šlapal

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Courtesy of Prechteck

Held every five years, the competition for this year’s pavilion called for a temporary building which may be easily disassembled and relocated to another site. The modular pavilion by Prechteck exists of different parts, housing different functions, all singular cells, but the strongest in coexistence with its neighboring parts. The main concept is that during the 5 years, each cell can be assembled in a different German city and serve as an info booth to the next. At the beginning of the next five years, the parts get transported back and get reconnected on site. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Nico Saieh

Architect: Gonzalo Mardones Viviani
Location: Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile
Client: MIELE
Furnishings: Orlando Gatica
Lightning: Douglas Leonard
Construction: Pablo Qualitz
Structural engineer: Sebastián Marshall
Audio: Bang & Olufsen
Date: October – November 2011
Surface: 120 sqm
Photographs: Nico Saieh

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Courtesy of Mark Talbot and Tyler Survant

In this temporary pavilion by Mark Talbot and Tyler Survant just outside of Louisville, Kentucky, the controlled collision of ruled surfaces generates arched passageways and vault-like spaces.  In addition to defining a social milieu at the threshold of lake and land, the pavilion provides shade from the summer sun by day and magnifies the light of campfires lit beneath it by night. More images and project description after the break. read more »

© Miljenko Bernfest & Marko Salopek

Architects: Lea Pelivan + Toma Plejić / STUDIO UP
Location: Shenzhen, China
Project team: Irena Bakić, Josipa Baričević, Nikola Brlek, Luka Cvitan, Jelena Martić, Marko Salopek, Hana Svatoš-Ražnjević, Vanda Trifunović
Collaboration: Velcon Projekt: Albert Pavlović, Veljko Nižetić, Lidija Nizić, Marko Sardelić (cosntruction design)
Photographs: Miljenko Bernfest, Marko Salopek

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Courtesy of NO.MAD

The aim of the international competition “Coastal Architectural Projects for seaside facilities” was to propose new structures and equipments for tourism and recreational purposes in the Sardinian coasts. The proposal by NO.MAD, an off the grid module, is referred to the beach of Liscia located in the north part of the island between the town of Santa Teresa di Gallura and Palau. They chose to develop the project in the protected natural area of the river of Liscia, challenged to confront the limits that this fact involves and resolve it proposing a structure energetically self-sufficient integrated in the existing landscape. More images and brief project description after the break. read more »

© PLY Architecture

Architects: PLY Architecture
Location: University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Project Team: Karl Daubmann & John Marshall assisted by Ngoc Thy Phan & Alex Timmer
Structural Advisor: Andy Greco, SDI Additional
Construction help provided by: Peggy Chong, Jessica Mattson, Katie Santer, Dwight Song, Alex Watanabe
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: PLY Architecture

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Courtesy of Aleksander Wadas

The main idea of the Multi-functional Pavilions by Aleksander Wadas is to create public spaces with social functions like culture, recreation, sports.  They would be built with temporary pavilions of minor scale that can be easily fitted in the existing urban tissue, would have light components and could be mobile . They could be places where people could take some fitness exercises, take part in workshops or expositions or just rest. More images and project description after the break. read more »

In this edition of Construmat 2011, the Glass Foundation of Barcelona stresses new potentials and future challenges of glass, researching and trialing new possibilities, both for its integration into the architectural field as for the development of new ways in order to move towards a more sustainable architecture.

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© Youngchae Park

Architects: iArc Architects
Location: Incheon, South Korea
Year: Completed March 2010
Area: 2,869 sqm (Building), 12,300 sqm (Site)
Photo Credits: Youngchae Park

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