Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens

Under the gentle sweep of branches, along the banks of Lake Serpentine, and across a path from Hyde Park... the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens.

Established in 1970, and housed in a 1934 tea pavilion, the gallery perceptibly takes its' name from the nearby lake, which twists its way through the grounds of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. It is undeniably one of London's best loved galleries for modern contemporary art and architecture.

Each year, an international architect of some renown is commissioned to design and create a pavilion on the gallery's lawn.

In 2009, the pavilion was designed by Japanese architect practice SANAA, and is described as 'floating aluminum, drifting freely between the trees like smoke...' Indeed the reflective sculpture appears to float like a cloud or a pool of water...