Ai Weiwei For Serpentine Pavilion
Nearly four years after they teamed up to work on Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium (above) in Beijing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are to team up for a special London 2012 project.
The two creative minds will team up to design this years Serpentine pavilion, an annual event that’s now in its 12th year and rather a big deal in the architecture calendar. Speaking to The Guardian the Serpentine director Julia Peyton-Jones said, ‘What is so fantastic is that it is this extraordinary link of the two games, a Beijing-London axis… These are old and dear friends, so for them [Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Ai Weiwei] they are picking up where they left off – it is a continuation of a conversation that began in Beijing to great effect and they have conceived something really remarkable for our lawn.’
While the plans for the pavilion are still fairly sketchy we do know that it will be party submerged taking visitors beneath the surface of the Serpentine with the designers revealing the ‘the old foundations form a jumble of convoluted lines, like a sewing pattern. A distinctive landscape emerges out of the reconstructed foundations which is unlike anything we could have invented; its form and shape is actually a serendipitous gift.’
Watch this space folks.
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