A personal account of a scorching London summer, moving between Soto's yellow Pénétrable installation and LANZA atelier's curving brick pavilion at the Serpentine, and what it means to experience space with the body.

Designed by ISAD students in Chihuahua, PASO NARA is a CNC-fabricated, demountable shade pavilion inspired by the form of Rarámuri skirts.

Set within the volcanic landscape of the Massif du Sancy, Kazan draws inspiration from Japanese tea houses to create a poetic connection between nature, ritual, and architecture.

Inspired by Gaudí’s architectural approach, the DRAC Pavilion reinterprets materiality, craft, and public space through a reversible and reusable structure in Frankfurt.

The Empty Pavilion is an experimental architectural project in Detroit that explores emptiness, memory, and public interaction, questioning how architecture can activate latent public life in vacant urban spaces.

Designed by i/thee, the Puddle Pavilion in Bondurant, Iowa is cast from algae-based bio-resin without formwork. Suspended above Mud Creek, it captures the fleeting beauty of liquid motion, embodying a philosophy of Abstract Realism. Part of a citywide masterplan, it invites visitors to pause and connect with the site’s ecology.

Designed by Alvisi Kirimoto, TAM TAM invites visitors to interact with its movable columns, creating a constantly shifting space built from recycled plastic.