Each year since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London commissions a top architect to create a temporary pavilion on its grounds in the city’s Kensington area. And many of those years, John Offenbach has photographed in and around the pavilions both to showcase their architecture and to communicate the experience of interacting with them.
This year, he shot the Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. It is “a semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones” and “occupies 350 square meters of the Serpentine’s lawn,” the Serpetine’s website explains. “Radić’s design for a temporary pavilion has its roots in the architect’s earlier work, particularly The Castle of the Selfish Giant, inspired by the Oscar Wilde story and the Restaurant Mestizo—part of which is supported by large boulders.”
Here’s a look…
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The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Smiljan Radić. Photo by John Offenbach.
Photo by John Offenbach.
Photo by John Offenbach.
Photo by John Offenbach.
Photo by John Offenbach.
Photo by John Offenbach.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić inside the pavilion. Photo by John Offenbach.
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