February 24, 2009 | Broadcast News
Sejima and Nishizawa of SANAA to design this summer’s Serpentine Pavilion
The temporary building, which will sit outside the London gallery in Kensington Gardens for three months, will be the practice’s first structure to be built in England. Sejima and Nishizawa founded Tokyo-based firm SANAA (Sejima + Nishizawa and Associates) in 1997 and trained under Toyo Ito, who designed the Serpentine’s pavilion in 2002.
The pair, whose New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York was unveiled last year, will work alongside structural design and engineering firm SAPS, led by Mutsuro Sasaki, and with the Arup team, led by David Glover and Ed Clark with Cecil Balmond.
Previous Pavilions have been designed by Frank Gehry (2008), Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond (2006); Ãlvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond (2005); Oscar Niemeyer (2003); Daniel Libeskind (2001); and Zaha Hadid in 2000.
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