Eyewitness: Jean Nouvel installation

Award-winning French architect Jean Nouvel is not worried about being in the red – he’s made it an artistic statement. His structure for this year’s Serpentine pavilion, a temporary annual installation in Kensington gardens, London, that has become one of the highlights of the arts year, is a giant red symbol of the recession. The temporary pavilion was built not only with money from private sponsors, but also, on this occasion, with some Arts Council money. • This article was amended on 9 July 2010. The original accompanying text should have said that the temporary Serpentine pavilion for 2010 had been built not only with money from private sponsors, but also, on this occasion, with some Arts Council money; somewhere along the way, the Arts Council alone was credited.
Illustration: David Levene