The Serpentine Pavillion

Today was a great day spent explore the fun of London (I'm going to the cursed child later, 3rd times a charm, you must go and see this).

The journey to the serpentine, ok today was soooo sooo hot but in regents park they have an amazing wildflower meadow that is breaming with wildlife and is protected by some string but is just placed in the middle of the park and its beautiful to see.

Imagine that this was put onto a façade, what if this could become the new fabric of the city??

If you didn't know "ahh there's grasshopper's"

Now we continue our journey to the serpentine via the lake...…..

And now, bobbing amid the geese, the ducks and the paddle boats, there’s an extraordinary hulking, trapezoid sculpture in the center of the lake: Christo’s “Mastaba.”

It is made of 7,506 painted barrels secured to scaffolding and anchored in the lake, was entirely self funded and is free to view by all.

"Nobody commissions these things, they are decided by us, nobody asked us to build a mastaba. This is all the unstoppable desire to do works of art."

I think that this is how art should be free from restrain, I really want to climb on it so much...….

Also love this tree....

So we have finally arrived to the serpentine gallery

Frida Escobedo's 'intimate public space'

At 38, Escobedo is the youngest architect to be honoured with this commission. Here, she will use walls of stacked-up British roof tiles to create a “porous” enclosure, half-open and half-roofed, “an intimate public space” within the expanse of the park, with light and breeze entering through the gaps between the tiles. A slightly curved ceiling in mirror-polished stainless steel, as smooth as the tiles are rough, will give them an additional and more rarefied existence as reflections.

In a shallow pool, a thin film of water will “come and go, like a shoreline”, adding another layer of reflectivity. Escobedo’s approach is, she says, not about the look of the architectural object, but “how you feel inside the space, how you go about it in the moment”.

Architecture is always the ruin of its own idea,” says Frida Escobedo. I like this. Most architectural talk is so relentlessly promotional, optimistic and optimising, convinced of its own ability to change everything, so unable to acknowledge, as other art forms do, the existence of doubt or shades of light and dark, that it’s refreshing to hear the honest truth. “From the moment you draw it, architecture is a projection of what is going to happen in the future,” as she also says, but it’s an inaccurate one, subject to events beyond the designer’s control.