Jean Nouvel's Serpentine gallery pavilion

Nouvel's pavilion is the 10th to be commissioned at the Serpentine gallery
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Nouvel poses inside the pavilion
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The pavilion is fully eqipped for the summer with coffee tables, hammocks, benches, chairs, chess boards and and frisbees
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The structure is dominated by a cantilevered glass wall which supports a central frame
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Nouvel has playfully suggested that the red is inspired by London's buses and old phone boxes
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'I want it to be a little place of warmth and delight,' said Nouvel of the pavilion
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View of the sky through the pavilion
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The lawn outside has a series of ping-pong tables which are also red. 'It’s architecture on holiday,' said Nouvel
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'Some of its red surfaces absorb light, others reflect it; some glimmer, others are translucent,' says the Guardian's Jonathan Glancey
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