A new exhibition pavilion, the Serpentine Pavilion, opened in London's Hyde Park. Its author is a young Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, who is an adherent of harmony between man and nature. Indeed, his slate creation resembles a hill of stones, which grew right on the lawn of the famous Park.

Serpentine Pavilion is, in fact, a canopy under which you can walk and get the feeling of walking in a cave.

For his pavilion, Ishigami used 61 tons of raw slate extracted from the Honister mine in Keswick, North-West England. This quarry has been producing slate since 1728.

The architect laid the slate slabs on a thin steel grid, which, in turn, is based on 106 columns. It turned out the canopy with an area of 350 square meters.

Junyi Ishigami was the 19th architect invited by the Serpentine galleries to create the pavilion. His work can be seen from June 21 to October 6, after which it will be sold and moved to another location.