SERPENTINE SUMMER PAVILION
12 JULY – 18 OCTOBER
The arrival of the Serpentine Gallery pavilion indicates that summer is here.This year, the Kensington Gardens gallery has asked Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA to create the space. Described by the Japanese architects as a sheet of “floating aluminium, drifting freely between the trees like smoke”, it’s more like a canopy than a structure. This is the firm’s first building on British soil. But this year’s pavilion will get some competition, as London-based firm Carmody Groarke’s permanent 7/7 memorial is also set to open next door in Hyde Park.
Serpentine Gallery, London
www.serpentinegallery.org
Young Architects Program 2009: Afterparty by MOS
On view June 28, 2009 - September 28, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the architectural firm MOS. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the program, which affords emerging architectural talents the opportunity to design and present innovative projects. Five finalists selected by an invited nomination process were asked to present an urban landscape for the large courtyard entrance of P.S.1, with the allotted project budget of $70,000. The architects were required to incorporate elements of shade, water, seating, and bar areas into a proposed project. MOS's winning landscape, Afterparty, will be on view in P.S.1's outdoor courtyard starting in late June, and will serve as an immersive environment for the 2009 Warm Up summer music series.
MOS architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith say, "Today, we are rethinking and resituating architecture-not only its conceptual and formal economies but also its inherent ability to engage and produce visceral intimate environments. This project, Afterparty, is a temporary urban shelter and passive cooling station for P.S.1 and its Warm Up events, creating an escape from the summer heat and constructing a network of large, medium, and small cellular spaces that allow for intimacy and social formations to thrive."
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/296/
Design High
25 June – 30 August 2009
A group exhibition of design art by ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, DRIFT, INGRID DONAT, JORIS LAARMAN, LIONEL SCOCCIMARO, MARC QUINN, MATHIEU LEHANEUR, PABLO REINOSO, RAINER SPLITT, rANDOM INTERNATIONAL, ROBERT STADLER, SEBASTIAN BRAJKOVIC, THIERRY DREYFUS, VINCENT DUBOURG and WENDELL CASTLE.
The Louise Blouin Foundation is delighted to announce its partnership with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, one of the world’s leading design art galleries, in a collaborative exhibition that will feature several of the most important and innovative artists in the field of contemporary design art.
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text by Dezeen, on last post.
