Counterspace’s Serpentine Pavilion has finally completed in Kensington Gardens a year after it was originally due to open.

The 20th Serpentine Pavilion, designed by the Johannesburg-based practice directed by Sumayya Vally, will open on Friday.

Vally was born in 1990, the youngest architect to receive the commission.

The pavilion is said to reference the architecture of markets, restaurants, places of worship, bookshops and local cultural institutions that are important to diasporic and cross-cultural communities in neighbourhoods including Brixton, Hoxton, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Edgware Road, Barking and Dagenham, Peckham and Notting Hill.

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