Jean Nouvel Lands This Year's Serpentine Pavilion

In former Pritzker winners news, this writer was just headed out to New Orleans and didn’t get the chance to post that starchitect Jean Nouvel has landed the commission to build this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park. It’s the 10th anniversary of the building of the temporary structure, thus far always by the most high-profile of architects (SANAA created last year’s). True to form, given the completely open brief for the Serepentine, Nouvel’s plans for the building look like he just wanted to get experimental and try some things out (we particularly like the solid, bright red color he’s chosen for it).