News - MVRDV's Temporary Mountain in London Postponed
Posted by JoeVare, 22 Jan 2005

If you were looking forward to seeing MVRDV's 2005 Serpentine Gallery, you will have to wait until (at least) 2006.

Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery (a Contemporary Art Gallery in Kensington Gardens in London) has opened a temporary summer pavilion, past pavilions have been designed by Oscar Niemeyer, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid's.

MVRDV's 2005 pavilion was designed as a 50 meter (160 feet) high mountain, made of steel and grass that would cover the existing building completely and provide a series of climbable paths to previously unseen views in the park. The Serpentine Gallery has come to realize that the complexity of the project requires a little more design time- they have not given up on the idea but have postponed it until 2006.

In place of the mountain, the Serpentine Gallery will host a (presumably) easier to build pavilion designed by Portugese architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Click here to learn more about the Serpentine Gallery (and see some of the past pavilions)
Click here to start dreaming about 2006 at MVRDV's site