Studio in the Woods by SelgasCano. Photograph by Iwan Baan. As featured in the Phaidon Atlas

News broke today that Madrid architecture practice SelgasCano would create next summer’s temporary Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park, London. No renderings were unveiled of course, though the winning firm, the first Spanish practice in the programme’s 15-year history, did reveal something of their plans.

"This is an amazing and unique opportunity to work in a royal garden in the centre of London. Both aspects – 'garden' and 'London' – are very important for us in the development of this project," SelgasCano said. “We are going to use only one material as a canvas for both – the transparency. That 'material' has to be explored in all its structural possibilities, avoiding any other secondary material that supports it, and the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency."....Continue Reading

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