Marina Tabassum: Designing the Serpentine Gallery Pavillion is an architect’s dream job

London
CNN
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Even on a grey, drizzly morning in London, entering this year’s Serpentine Pavilion — the 25th architectural structure to be erected in Kensington Gardens — will bathe you in a warm glow. Packed in between curved wooden beams, translucent honeyed yellow square panels filter the weak sunlight into a more inviting summer afternoon hue. “I try to work with light,” architect Marina Tabassum told CNN ahead of Friday’s public opening. “On a sunny day, it’s glowing. But even when it’s not sunny you get to see a softer effect of the light coming through.”

Since 2000, the chance to design a public space in the center of London is awarded by the Serpentine Gallery each…