Serpentine Gallery pavilion 2013

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed this year’s pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, which will be a cloud-like structure made from a lattice of steel poles.

The temporary semi-transparent pavilion, which will be open from 8th June until 20th October, will have two entrances, provide a seating area for a central cafe, and will occupy 350 square-metres of lawn outside the London gallery.

This is the third time a Japanese architect has accepted the annual unpaid commission, which is one of the most highly sought-after small projects in world architecture and goes to a major architect who hasn’t yet built in the UK.

Last year’s pavilion was a cork-lined archaeological dig created by Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei, who was forbidden to leave China at the time.