Ai Weiwei And Beijing Stadium Architects To Make Serpentine Pavilion

The Guardian:

Four years after designing the spectacular Bird's Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing, the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei are to reunite for a London 2012 project.

The Serpentine Gallery announced on Tuesday that the Beijing team would collaborate again to design this year's pavilion -- the 12th commission in what has become a major annual event on the architecture calendar.

Julia Peyton-Jones, the director of the gallery, said it was "tremendously exciting", adding: "What is so fantastic is that it is this extraordinary link of the two games, a Beijing-London axis.

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