A look back at the pop-up spectacle before the next installment opens in Kensington Gardens It may be the world?s most popular pop-up installation in the world, especially if that world happens to be limited to architecture and design fans. Every year, a renowned designer or designers is selected?not necessarily from within the architecture industry?to design an outdoor pavilion on the grounds of the Serpentine Galleries in the English capital, which remains up for three months during the summer. The only restriction is that the architect must have not completed a building in England before his or her pavilion is displayed.
This year?s installment, designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Burkina Faso, will open to the public on Tuesday. His creation will joins a long list of experimental and eccentric designs that have graced the Kensington Garden lawns. Here?s a look at all the past designs, starting with Zaha Hadid?s inaugural installation, that have helped make this design series an international event.
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2016: Bjarke Ingels
Last year, the Dutch architect devised a ?"unzipped wall? that transformed a series of box-like, hollow bricks into a curved, three-dimensional space.

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2015: Selgascano
The Spanish studio?s take on Serpentine featured a web of translucent, multi-colored plastic tunnels, a playful take on the annual pavilion.

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