A couple of news items guaranteed to register on Prince Charles' carbuncle-ometer: plans for London commissions by two of modern architecture's most innovative practitioners took a step forward this week. Back in January Frank Gehry was announced as the designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, the temporary build that goes up during the summer and autumn in Kensington Gardens. The structure has now been unveiled. An "urban street" that provides a covered walkway from......

Frank Gehry will design this year’s Serpentine pavilion. The Kensington Gardens gallery gains a temporary annexe each year, designed by a guest architect with no previous London commissions. And they always bag a big name - Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Liebeskind, Oscar Niemeyer… So this year it will be Frank Gehry, who is perhaps best known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (pictured). It’s a shame he wasn’t the architect of 2007’s......

Well, it’s up. London’s latest dome has been inflated in Hyde Park. The giant ovoid is this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Rem Koolhaas. The architect is world famous but, as is the tradition for the gallery’s annual summer pavilion, has never built a structure in the UK before. As we previously babbled, the pavilion opens to the public on 13 July and will host a diverse range of events that cliché fans might......

You know how London buildings always get nicknames (gherkin, cheesegrater, giant glass testicle, yada, yada, yada)? Well we’re wondering what this one’s going to be called. The Translucent Egg? The Floaty Ovum? The Breast Implant? This is the cracking design for the 2006 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond. Each year, a leading architect is asked to create a striking and innovative temporary structure to adorn the grounds of the Serpentine......

So we enter Endgame. Architecture week and the London Architecture Biennale (LAB) draw to a close this weekend. And we still haven't figured out how to pronounce 'biennale'. Here’s our pick of the final flourish. Friday Walks: A bevy of novel guided walks are available on Friday. The Borough Market Experience (£5, 9am) tours the Victorian marketplace, highlighting both its ancient roots and its modern refurbs. Shakespeare, Social Space and Design (£7, 10.30, George......

54 TOURS, 35 EXHIBITIONS, 19 TALKS, 5 PARTIES, 16 INSTALLATIONS, 8 FILM SCREENINGS, 5 BIG BREAKFASTS, 5 COMPETITIONS, 40 RAILINGS EXHIBITIONS AND 60 HERDWICK SHEEP So, your significant other is going to spend the entire early summer watching football? Wondering what to do with yourself? Well, why not get all enthusiastic about architecture? Throughout June, you can expect a fair few posts on London’s buildings. This month sees the tenth Architecture Week (actually 10......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Along with a wealth of events this week, new books by Margaret Atwood and Jay McInerney (pictured) are also of particular interest... Events Around London: Tonight, David Runciman discusses his new book, The Politics of Good Intentions, which claims that Blair and Bush have abused history in order to further their goals for the......

This post is a follow up to the one we wrote back in January entitled Serpentine To Remain Mountainless when "'unresolved design problems' ... led to an indefinite postponement," of the idea to build a mountain on top of the Serpentine gallery. No prizes for guessing what's happnned now then. According to today's papers those plans have now been "abandoned" due to "practical and financial problems". Which is a shame, because London needs more......