But after last year’s ponderously wooden effort from Frank Gehry, the Serpentine has struck lucky this summer with an elegant pavilion by SANAA. Sporting a multi-lobed roof of polished aluminium on hyper-slender columns, it looks terrific—at least until you notice the surrounding landscape, where a fringe of white stone chippings abruptly gives way to ineptly-laid squares of turf that already are brown and eroded. via…
Well isn’t that a bummer? It gets pretty hot in the summer in Hyde Park though, so I can’t really blaim anyone for having dying grass.
Now that I am thinking of London, how nice would a strongbow be right now?
