P.E.A.R.: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

6 June 2012

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

This year’s Pavilion has been designed by Herzog & de Meuron & Ai Weiwei and takes the viewer beneath the lawn of the Serpentine to explore the hidden history of its previous pavilions. A distinctive cork landscape reveals and reconstructs the traces of these former pavilions and a new structure emerges from their foundations. Eleven columns characterising each past Pavilion and a twelfth representing the current structure support a floating platform roof that sits just a few feet above ground level and draws the infinitely changing sky into its reflective pool.

Traces of previous foundations

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Cork landscape

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Pavilion roof

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Aerial view

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Stockists

P.E.A.R. is sold in some very nice bookshops.

In London you can try Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Artwords Bookshop on Rivington Street, The AA Bookshop, RIBA Bookshop and Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine.

In Manchester you can find us at the RIBA Hub and at Corner House and in Glasgow we are sold at the Aye-Aye Book Depot.

In Berlin P.E.A.R. is sold at Buchhandlung Walther Koenig and PRO qm, and in Lisbon we are available at Tema. In Amsterdam you can find us in Athenaeum Boekhandel.

P.E.A.R. is also sold in the bookshop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and we are available in other cities across Europe and in far-flung destinations including Taipai, Australia and New Zealand.

For more information on distribution please contact:

Central Books
http://www.centralbooks.com/magazine/titles/pear.html