Giant sphere or wafer thin canopy? Vote for your favourite past pavilion from our shortlist …
This week, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ paid a visit to the new Serpentine Pavilion by Sou Fujimoto - . This inspired us to take a look back at some of the most striking contributions to the assignment from years gone by.
Here’s our architectural correspondent Ike Ijeh’s pick of the bunch, and we’d like to know what you think. Vote for your favourite in our poll on the right, or, if there’s a particular pavilion that stood out for you that isn’t on our shortlist, let us know by commenting below.
RESULTS
Did you vote online for your favourite Serpentine Pavilion from our shortlist of six? Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of the SANAA collective won 40% the vote with their 2009 aluminium canopy.
Runners up
2nd Oscar Niemeyer (2003)got 20% of the vote.
3rd/4th/5th Rem Koolhaas (2006), Peter Zumthor (2011) and Toyo Ito (2002) tied on 13% of the vote.
6th Jean Nouvel (2010) got 0% of the vote.
Toyo Ito, 2002
The 2003 pavilion was a complex and compelling study of geometry and motion. Based on the algorithm of