Sanaa Selected to Design This Year's Serpentine Gallery

Following Frank Gehry‘s “Acropolis of Athens after an earthquake” for last year’s Serpentine Gallery, the Guardian‘s Jonathan Glancey has gotten the scoop that the Japanese firm Sanaa has been awarded this year’s main pavilion at the big event that happens in London each summer. Sanaa (also known as the team of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) was also responsible for New York’s much praised New Museum of Contemporary Art and whose work Glancey describes as “remarkably calm and quieting,” so you have to figure that the Serpentine organizers were likely interested in going that route during these troubling times (probably not very wise to get overly showy when times are tough).