This was always going to be a high stakes year for the Serpentine Pavilion.

For a start it is the 20^th anniversary of the colourful annual commission which arguably attracts more public attention than any other architectural event in Britain.

As well as mainstream media scrutiny, it will inevitably be subjected to architectural journalists asking (even more than every other year): “What next for the pavilion?” and “Has the commission lost its way?” It needed to come up with something good to impress easily bored correspondents and their readers.

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