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Niemeyer designs the Serpentine Gallery pavilion

Oscar Niemeyer is to design the new pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery. The challenge posed by the Serpentine has been taken up yearly since 2000 by world-famous architects. Before Niemeyer it was tackled by Zaha Hadid in 2000, by Daniel Libeskind in 2001 and by Toyo Ito last year. The pavilion, a temporary structure used to accommodate special events, can be visited from June to September, when it will be sold by public auction.

The 95-year-old Brazilian architect, born in Rio in 1907, is enthusiastic about his first British commission: “My idea was to keep this project different, free and audacious. That is what I prefer”, he has declared. “I like to draw, I like to see from the blank sheet of paper a palace, a cathedral, the figure of a woman appearing. But life for me is much more important than architecture”.

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Oscar Niemeyer. Photo Mark Robinson
Oscar Niemeyer. Photo Mark Robinson

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