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SANAA at the Serpentine
July 14, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 Designed by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA © 2009 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Photograph: Luke Hayes
The Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park has officially opened its 2009 summer pavilion.
Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa of Tokyo-based SANAA have designed a floating mirrored canopy that spills out through the trees and over the grass, undulating between waist height and two storeys and open on all sides.
The Japanese duo lead a precocious firm with a growing international reputation, whose work, such as the recently completed New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, is often light and ethereal. They say they don’t think of themselves as ‘Japanese architects’, but to a western eye the Japanese sensibility is clear.
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