Architechture has never been my thing, but I keep reading in the papers about the big names in the business. The latest outburst of excitement over the architectural project came from London, where two renowned Japanese designers Kazujo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa put together the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, an annual structure commissioned from the leading artists by the gallery to hold some of its summer events.
The pavilion was previously designed by other giants of the modern architecture:
1) Daniel Libeskind, a Polish-born American architect of Jewish origin, the author of the Jewish Museum Berlin and, possibly if things go according to plan, a skyscraper in Poznań,
2) Frank Gehry, a Los Angeles-based Pritzker Prize winner, who sprang to fame after his ground-breaking projects of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA,
3) Zaha Hadid, a renowned British architect, born in Iraq, the author of the BMW Central Building and another winner of the Pritzker Prize,
4) Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch renaissance man of architecture, a mind behind Casa da Música, the innovative concert hall in Porto or the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas,
5) a Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer, known for his visionary architechture scattered around his home country, for example the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum and the Cathedral of Brasilia,
6) Toyo Ito, a Japanese specialising in innovative architecture, including the use of solar energy, like in World Games Stadium in Taiwan.
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