Buildings

Sanaa's Serpentine pavilion shows a lightness of touch

By Ellis Woodman, Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman Ellis Woodman2009-07-08T15:08:00

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009

If Sanaa’s buildings can be said to share a defining quality it lies in their marriage of a startling economy of means and a gleeful abandon in those means’ deployment — a strategy that imbues their best work with something of the impossible loveliness of a child’s drawing.

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