After a multi-city traveling event space in partnership with the Guggenheim Museum and an eccentric collaborative design book with graphics specialist Stefan Sagmeister, German automaker BMW is now moving on to its next culture-focused initiative. The 2012 BMW Pavilion—finishing construction now in London and timed to open for the Olympic Games—is a public performance space and showroom. “What Londoners love to do in summer is be surrounded by parks,” says architect Chris Lee, whose firm Serie Architects won the commission after a competition that came down to proposals from six design offices. Part of that park-going tradition, says Lee, is the conventional “Victorian bandstand,” which became the typological jumping-off point for the new project. Read more…
This post was originally published by SURFACE on July 1, 2012.
