But I have an excuse. It's the last semester, last project, and round up to my whole bachelors degree (a few months to go!), so I better pull my socks up and concentrate on getting that out of the way.
The past few months have been full of non-architectural struggle, including heavy-bouts of very-architectural struggle, the former in the form of general life, and the latter in the form of ceaseless projects and futile attempts of juicing my brain for half-decent design ideas.
We had our final crit of the year last week. Two words. Not good.
My mantra is currently 'It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings'.
Slightly desperate, yes. Hey. I'm enjoying it nonetheless.
Besides my exciting life, I'm sure you're all dying to read about something architectural. I'm sure most of you Brits have had a glimpse of the new Serpentine Pavilion to be built in our beloved Hyde Park (Kensington Gardens to be precise), London. If not, then 'shame on you', as relayed to me often by my very french tutor.
More importantly here it is, in all it's CAD glory:
French architect Jean Nouvel has been selected to design this years Serpentine Gallery Pavilion!(The shiny metal one from last year was by SANAA. Remember it? Good.)
Since 2010, the Serpentine Gallery has commissioned world’s most renowned architects to design a temporary structure to host summer events. The list includes Zaha Hadid, Frank Ghery, Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza + Souto de Moura, SANAA (previously featured at AD), danish artist Olafur Eliasson, and several collaborations with Cecil Balmond and ARUP and many others that you may never have heard of.
Nouvel proposes a vivid red metal structure, which trough the reflection of its materials (steel, glass, fabric, polycarbonate). A free standing 12m tall wall marks the presence of the pavilion. I'm in slight confusion as to why everything in London has to look red. But in image of the iconic phone box, red bus etc etc I'm sure it will a fitting addition to the London scenery. Don't you love originality.
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