Temporality, trees, and togetherness: Inside Marina Tabassum's 2025 Serpentine Pavilion

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Temporality, trees, and togetherness: Inside Marina Tabassum's 2025 Serpentine Pavilion  The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion has been unveiled in Kensington Gardens - designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum, the timber structure explores themes of time, movement, and nature.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/05/temporality-trees-and-togetherness-inside-marina-tabassums-2025-serpentine-pavilion  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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00:00It is kind of shaped as a capsule so you see there are two half domes and then we

00:27have these two vaulted spaces so four segments and in the center we have this beautiful ginkgo

00:33tree which is actually aligned with the bell tower of the Serpentine Gallery.

00:43The tree is a sort of a representation of park and nature and in a way brings a scale

00:49to that space.

00:51At the same time it's also quite nice that it's a ginkgo tree which we selected.

00:56It's one of the oldest trees and a very resilient tree and beautiful sculptural form and I love

01:02the fan shaped leaf that you can see there.

01:07For me architecture is not always about staticness but it's also about this temporality and the

01:21pavilion itself is a kind of a temporal structure which is here for five months and then it

01:27will move on towards second life or an afterlife.

01:34Yeah.

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