The author of the summer pavilion Serpentine Gallery 2009 will be SANAA

The authors of this year's pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery will be Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa from the Japanese studio SANAA. The ninth Serpentine pavilion will thus be the first realization for SANAA in the British Isles. The pavilion will be open on the grounds of the Serpentine Gallery from July to October this year.
This year's pavilion will be the second in a row to be authored by architects from Japan (in 2002, a pavilion was realized according to the design by Toyo Ito, with whom Sejima and Nishizawa incidentally used to work). Currently, the shape of the future pavilion is unknown; however, it will definitely include a café and facilities for public lectures and other events held under the name Park Nights, which are attended annually by a quarter of a million visitors. It is already clear that the design will be consulted with engineers from SAPS (Mutsuro Sasaki) and Arup (David Glover, Ed Clark, and of course, Cecil Balmond).
The Serpentine Gallery pavilions have been created annually since 2000 when the director of the Serpentine Gallery, Julia Peyton-Jones, came up with the idea for this now legendary project. The pavilion is always designed by a recognized world architect or team, with the condition that the author has no realizations in the UK at the time of being approached. The design of the pavilion takes 6 months, after which the pavilion is built in 3 months and subsequently sold. The costs of the realization are covered by sponsors (this year's main sponsor is NetJets Europe) and subsequent sales (from which the gallery usually only retains 40% of the total price of the pavilion).

Authors of Serpentine Gallery pavilions in previous years: