The Spanish design firm Selgascano's Second Home Serpentine Pavilion, photographed here in London, opens to the public at the La Brea tar pits on Friday.
In projects across Europe, founders José Selgas and Lucia Cano are known as designers who defy conventions and gleefully embrace a trippy, sci-fi aesthetic. Their translucent, tangerine-colored Palacio de Congresos de Plasencia in Spain is quite possibly a hallucination drawn from a Tom Wolfe acid trip.
The rainbow-bright La Brea pavilion is a selfie magnet, but Selgas and Cano come from a predigital generation. Both are 54 and graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. Speaking over Skype, Selgas said that architecture is something that must be felt in person and that the duo’s designs offer more than the instant gratification of social media.
“We need to go back to nature — to see life with new eyes, again,” Selgas said from the duo’s Madrid office, where a floor-to-ceiling window behind him looked out onto dense greenery. “The pavilion is for people to walk inside, experience and work with their memories. The complexity of nature is bigger than what we have digitally. The pavilion is an artificial nature; the goal is to improve the natural with something artificial.
Fucking miss u so bad La brea
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Marianne Williamson will be dedicating the pavilion tomorrow.
Is psychedelic really a hue, though? I think not.
Currently the only place in Los Angeles without any homeless, heaps of trash and rodents.
Oh god, la is Spanish .....trying to reconquer la ? Why did he say that.
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Almost makes you forget you are on top of an oil field.
wow that is trippy, why don't we move all the homeless there!
Damn so that's what they put there
interesting.. Time to get my Doobie Bros shirt and bandana✌️
When the hell did architecture become a “selfie magnet”? 🤷🏻♂️
That looks like a great homeless shelter.
'This summer filmmaker David Lynch will join curator and Serpentine Director Hans Ulrich Obrist for a conversation on meditation and creativity.' Would *love* to see that confab.
Oooooo I’m so going. 🙌🏽
FINALLY! I can go to the La Brea tar pits high on Mushrooms and wont feel that bad about it! Its on like Donkey Kong..
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