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11/7/2002

Pavilion 2002

Serpentine Gallery, London

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002: Toyo Ito with Arup

The Serpentine annually commissions international architects of world-wide acclaim to design a Pavilion for the Gallery's lawn that provides a unique showcase for contemporary architectural practice. This is the third in the series, following Zaha Hadid (2000) and Daniel Libeskind with Arup (2001), whose Eighteen Turns was listed by The Observer as one of the top-ten buildings of 2001.

Toyo Ito's ground-breaking ideas about the form and function of contemporary buildings have secured him a place in the vanguard of world-class architecture. His highly acclaimed Médiatèque in Sendai fuses Japanese tradition with radical ways of thinking about architecture and its place in contemporary life.

Cecil Balmond is Chairman of the Europe and Building Division of Arup. His commitment to architecture and design and his interest in the exploration of non-linear form have led to collaborations with some of the world's most innovative architects including Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind.

This year's Pavilion will play host to a special programme of summer evening events, architectural talks, film screenings and the BBC Poetry Proms,staged to complement the Serpentine's Late-night Friday Openings, when the Gallery will be open until 10pm.

Café
Licensed café. Open daily 10am - 6pm
Late-night Friday Openings until 10pm

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002: Toyo Ito with Arup is generously sponsored by:
Architectural Design
Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond
Project Architects: Takeo Higashi, Hiromi Hosoya and Takayuki Miyoshi, Toyo Ito & Associates

Structural Design
Charles Walker and Daniel Bosia, ARUP

Project Management
Mark Robinson and Julia Peyton-Jones,
Serpentine Gallery

Construction Management
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd.

Planning
City of Westminster Planning and Transportation Department
Montagu Evans

Planning Supervisor
Bovis Lend Lease Ltd.

Structure and Frame
William Hare Ltd.
Corus

Glass Fabrication and Installation
Saint-Gobain Glass
Seele

Aluminium Panel Fabricators
SAS International Ltd.
Sheetfabs (Nottm) Ltd.

Contractors
Avondale Construction Ltd.
(joinery & labour)
Laing O'Rourke Plc.
(plant & materials)
Siteco Ltd. (lighting systems)
South London Timber Co. Ltd.
(timber supply)
T Clarke Plc. (electrical)

Furniture Design
Ross Lovegrove

Furniture Donation
Enrico Astori and Adelaide
Acerbi, Driade

Furniture Supply
James Mair, Viaduct

Security
Clipfine Ltd.

Advisors
Lord Palumbo, Chairman,
Serpentine Gallery Trustees
Peter Rogers, Stanhope Plc.

"Temporary structures like Eighteen Turns are great additions to our parks and cityscapes they can offer us adventurous, alternative and even radical impressions of what a new architecture might be." - The Guardian

The Serpentine Gallery has formalised its commitment to showcasing contemporary architecture by organising an on-going series of annual commissions to be sited on the Gallery's lawn each summer. The lawn acts as a fifth space to the four existing galleries inside the building. The Gallery's location in Kensington Gardens together with the range of artists presented creates an unparalleled site for the appointed architect's design.

In 2001, the Serpentine invited one of the world's leading architects Daniel Libeskind, in association with Arup to create a temporary structure to be sited on the Gallery's lawn, continuing the series of architectural commissions that commenced with Zaha Hadid in 2000.
Eighteen Turns was conceived by Libeskind as, "a lyrical counterpoint to Kensington Gardens and the Serpentine Gallery, a playful figure that weaves and stretches obliquely across space and this unique context." The pavilion was host to, amongst other events, a series of debates on urban design, programmed in association with the Architecture Foundation, a series of BBC Proms Poetry readings, as well as a café run by Food Theatre which was open from June until September 2001.

Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens W2 3XA
London

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