Architectural Easter Eggs

A collection of former Serpentine Gallery pavilions in their current state discovered via bing maps. Read about their post-Serpentine life in Marina Otero Verzier’s article.


Zaha Hadid’s pavilion is used as event venue in Flambards theme park, Helston, Cornwall, UK.


Toyo Ito’s pavilion is used as beach club restaurant in hotel Le Beauvallon near Saint Tropez, France.


Frank Gehry’s pavilion is exibited on the property of the Chateau La Coste winery near Aix-en-Provence, France.

Frank Gehry’s Throwaway Joke

A classic: Frank Gehry as guest star in The Seven-Beer Snitch, the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. Now he regrets his appearance in the Simpsons ...

Developable Surfaces in Gehry's Architecture

Gehry's east river guggenheim project in NYC. The use of flexible sheet material like paper in physical models generates developable geometries.

Dennis Shelden, CTO at gt, describes in his phd thesis several ways to compute developable surfaces. Fig. (c) by Dennis Shelden.


Museum MARTa in Herford, Germany. Most of the roof surfaces are developable. Geometric modelling of the roof construction has been done by Jess Maertterer. Further discription on his page.