High Street Kensington
Holland Park along the way,
Holland Park cafe: best ever on any day.
The way we were, paintings: inside Holland Park
Holland Park Japanese garden:
Peacocks from India:
The new Design Museum, back on High Street Kensington:
being built…..and opening in 2016
http://designmuseum.org/about-us/new-design-museum
Continue up High Street Kensington:
Kensington Palace
In Gold: Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband.
The Royal College of Art
The Royal Albert Hall
The Jewel at the end of the trail:
The Serpentine comprises two galleries situated on either side of The Serpentine lake in the heart of the Royal Park of Kensington Gardens in central London. The Serpentine Gallery and the newly opened Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, present world-renowned exhibitions of art, architecture and design throughout the year.
Admission is free.
http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/
The 2014 Serpentine Pavilion is designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones…
Those pavilions were often just signs. A kind of capsule built to awake the memory or induce a surprise;extravagant places or environments never seen before, common gestures or places that shot the imagination of the visitors towards faraway lands…….. no one will be completely certain whether it is real or whether it is false, or what its strange ambience is really for……No one will know what trick is holding up its outer shell of 12mm-thick fibreglass……..
All previous pavilions: http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/search/site/pavilion
Walk across the bridge to the Sackler Gallery
What’s this!
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
….designed by Zaha Hadid Architects
London: Creative Capital of the World.