Early last December 2014 the Serpentine Galleries announced that Spanish architects Selgas Cano Arquitectos would be responsible for designing the 2015 Serpentine Pavilion. The study, based in Madrid, will be the first team of Spanish architects involved in the design of one of the most famous temporary pavilions in the architectural panorama.
The Spanish architect have said about the project.-
This is an amazing and unique opportunity to work in a Royal Garden in the centre of London. Both aspects, ‘Garden’ and ‘London’, are very important for us in the development of this project. We are in the middle of a garden, a ‘Royal’ garden indeed, once divided in two and separated by a Serpentine. That garden clings in the middle of London. Garden and London (which best defines London?) will be the elements to show and develop in the Pavilion. For that we are going to use only one material as a canvas for both: the Transparency. That ‘material’ has to be explored in all its structural possibilities, avoiding any other secondary material that supports it, and the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency. A good definition for the pavilion can be taken from J. M. Barrie: it aims to be as a ‘Betwixt-and-Between’.”
The intervention designed by SelgasCano will follow the one designed by Smiljan Radić para el Pabellón 2014, previamente a la cual vinieron las de arquitectos como Sou Fujimoto, 2013; Herzog & de Meuron y Ai Weiwei, 2012; Peter Zumthor, 2011; Frank Gehry, 2008; Rem Koolhaas y Cecil Balmond, con Arup, 2006; Óscar Niemeyer, 2003; Daniel Libeskind con Arup, 2001; y Zaha Hadid, que diseñó el Pabellón inaugural en 2000.
Venue.- Serpentine Gallery. Kensington Gardens. London W2 3XA. UK.
Date.- 26th June to 18th October of 2015.
