Pavilions

Samitaur Tower by Eric Owen Moss, Los Angeles, USA

Samitaur Tower by Eric Owen Moss, Los Angeles, USA Subscription Required

28 April 2011 | By Geoff Manugh

The Samitaur Tower by Eric Owen Moss is as much of an optical mechanism as it is a work of architecture. Photography by Tom Bonner

Studio East Dining by Carmody Groarke

Studio East Dining by Carmody Groarke, Stratford, Northeast London, UK Subscription Required

24 November 2010

Emerging Architecture Awards 2010: Winner

During a live event the chain mail skin forms a luminous stage drape

OMS Stage by 5468796 Architecture, Old Market Square, Winnipeg, Canada Subscription Required

24 November 2010

Emerging Architecture Awards 2010: Highly Commended

Applying finishing touches to the extraordinary structure, which resembles a dandelion or beached sea urchin, sitting in a sunken plaza like ‘an unwrapped gift’, according to Heatherwick. The plaza will host performances for the duration of the Expo

British Pavilion by Heatherwick Studio, Shanghai, China Subscription Required

14 May 2010 | By Will Hunter

Thomas Heatherwick Studio’s quivering seed-studded pavilion for Expo 2010 Shanghai. Photography

In the tradition of the belvedere, the architect wanted to frame a principal view – in this instance, the sky

Osnaburgh Street Pavilion by Carmody Groarke, London, UK Subscription Required

1 February 2010 | By Rob Gregory

Carmody Groarke’s refined, stainless steel Osnaburgh Pavilion. Photography by Luke Hayes

Made from 12,000 wooden blocks threaded onto a grid of steel reinforcement bars, the tea pavilion floats lightly on a pontoon

Tea Pavilion by Architectural Studio XYZ, Moscow, Russia Subscription Required

1 December 2009 | By Rob Gregory

XYZ’s tea arbor, made from 12,000 wooden blocks, floats lightly on a pontoon on a lake. Photography by Aleksey Narodizki

The completed children's play pavilion creates an ambiguous enclosure, likened by its architect to a forest clearing

Forest of Net Pavilion by Twzuka Architects, Hakone Open-air Museum, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Subscription Required

1 October 2009 | By Rob Gregory

Twzuka Architects’ giant inverted bird’s nest of interlocked timber beams. Photography by Katsuhisa Kida/Fototeca

Viewed from the gallery’s roof terrace, the finished pavilion resembles SANAA’s early models

Serpentine Pavilion by SANAA, Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park, London, UK Subscription Required

1 August 2009 | By Rob Gregory

SANAA follow in the footsteps of Gehry, Eliasson and Thorsen, Koolhaas, Souto de Moura, Siza, Niemeyer, Ito, Libeskind and Hadid with their first UK commission at the Serpentine Gallery. Photography by Ludwig Abache

Siza’s mottled brick is the same as that used by sculptor Erwin Heerich in the original pavilions

Pavilion by Álvaro SIza and Rudolf Finsterwalder, Insel Hombroich Foundation, Ruhr Valley, Germany Subscription Required

1 August 2009 | By Kieran Long

SIza and Finsterwalder collaborate to add a brick farmstead-like complex to gathering of existing brick pavilions at the Insel Hombroich Foundation. Photography by Duccio Malagamba

With an inverted roof supported on slim steel columns and glazed walls, the new pavilion is an elegantly minimal presence

Eleanor and Wilson Greatbach Pavilion by Toshiko Mori, Buffalo, New York, USA Subscription Required

1 May 2009 | By Michael Kubo

Former chair of architecture at Harvard, Toshiko Mori’s pavilion uses minimal styling to sensitively frame this prairie style visitor complex. Photography by Paul Warchol

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Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt's pet project fails to deliver Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Rhys Gwilym

Film star turned aspiring architect tries to Make It Right in New Orleans with disappointing results

House in Komazawa and Pilotis in a Forest_Japan_Go Hasegawa

Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

Hempcrete Walls

Glen Howells Architects challenge conventions of volume house building Subscription Required

20 December 2011 | By Crispin Kelly

Conceived as an exemplary riposte to the dreariness and mediocrity of most volume housebuilding, this new residential scheme in Swindon actively engages with ideas about community, sustainability and place

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