From a floating cinema to a car park-cum-art gallery, some of Britain’s most innovative (and people-friendly) design is seen in temporary projects in public spaces. Here’s what’s been popping up in London and beyond this summer,
Sou Fujimoto, aged 41, is the youngest ever creator of the Serpentine gallery’s annual summer structure in London, a great latticework cloud that looks part-garden trellis and part-tartan. Architecture critic Oliver Wainwright asks the Japanese architect how he created London’s largest climbing frame.
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The Floating Cinema was first launched in 2011 but this year has a completely new, purpose-built boat, designed by the architects Duggan Morris. It is a magical idea, to bring together the floating worlds of the cinema with an actual floating boat, and to animate different canalside locations with a touring programme.
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In a bashed-up street in Dalston, east London the Argentinian artist has created a full-scale mock-up of the kind of terraced house facade that was there once, complete with mouldings and glimpses of the interior, laid it flat on the ground, and fixed a big mirror over it at 45 degrees. It creates the illusion that you’re climbing –or walking – up a vertical surface.
