Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Pavilion

Peter Zumthor's first building in the UK, the 2011 Serpentine Pavilion, is now complete and has been open to the press. It opens to the public on the 1st July. The Guardian report that Peter Zumthor said at the opening: "This should be an escape, a place where nature is framed and compressed....Make of it what you like. There is no hidden, or even obvious, meaning here. This is a place for you to be. To be. Nothing else." Zumthor's written statement also said: "Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time." Read the full article here.