Serpentine Pavilion Archives

Serpentine Pavilion 2025, A Capsule in Time, opens this Friday.

3 June 2025 • Mark Westall

A Capsule in Time, designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)

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Serpentine Pavilion 2025, A Capsule in Time, to be built around a semi-mature Ginkgo tree.

21 May 2025 • Mark Westall

Tabassum’s Pavilion will mark the 25th year of this pioneering commission and continues Dame Zaha Hadid’s ethos of pushing the boundaries of architecture.

Marina Tabassum and her firm, MTA, selected for the Serpentine Pavilion 2025

28 January 2025 • Mark Westall

Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, MTA, have been selected to design the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion

Mass Studies selected to design 23rd Serpentine Pavilion.

22 January 2024 • Mark Westall

Serpentine has revealed that Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies have been selected to design the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion.

Serpentine Park Nights 2023: Art, Music, Dance, Poetry, Performance + Rave all *LIVE.

17 August 2023 • Mark Westall

Serpentine has revealed details of Park Nights 2023, its experimental, interdisciplinary, live programme sited within the annual architectural commission, the 22nd Serpentine… Read More

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22nd Serpentine Pavillion unveiled À table designed by Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture

5 June 2023 • Mark Westall

Serpentine is to open the 22nd Pavilion, designed by French-Lebanese Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, at Serpentine South this week on… Read More

Serpentine announce Summer Live Programme

17 June 2022 • Mark Westall

This summer, Serpentine will present an exciting programme of events staged around Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Theaster… Read More

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Black Chapel from Theaster Gates is the 21st Serpentine Pavilion

7 June 2022 • Mark Westall

The 21st Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel, designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates opens this week on Friday 10th June 2022. Black Chapel is realised with the… Read More

THEASTER GATES DESIGN REVEALED FOR SERPENTINE PAVILION 2022

3 February 2022 • Mark Westall

Today, plans were revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Black Chapel is realised with the… Read More

Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace have designed the 20th Serpentine Pavilion.

8 June 2021 • Mark Westall

The 20th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Johannesburg-based practice Counterspace, directed by Sumayya Vally, will open on 11th June 2021. A TIME100 Next List… Read More

Theaster Gates to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion

21 May 2021 • Mark Westall

Chicago artist Theaster Gates is to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the Pavilion.

The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London during Frieze week

29 September 2019 • Tabish Khan

Microscopes, heavy machinery, salt tasting, big sculpture, a tiger hat and lots of slate.

The Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2019.

14 February 2019 • Mark Westall

The Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, celebrated for his experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural conventions and reflect natural phenomena, has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2019.

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The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design next Serpentine Pavilion

8 February 2018 • Mark Westall

The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, celebrated for dynamic projects that reactivate urban space, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018.

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Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design

25 February 2016 • Mark Westall

The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses

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Pastels, ice creams and drugless trips

26 June 2015 • Staff

As many of you may already know today, is international ice cream day.

What happens to the Serpentine pavilions? Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee……

18 June 2015 • Mark Westall

Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?