Weekly design agenda: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens

(Ateliers Jean Nouvel)

Summer is officially here, and so are London's Serpentine Gallery's Park Nights at the Pavilion.

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens
July 5 - October 20
London, UK

In what will be Jean Nouvel's first completed building in the UK, the new pavilion is designed to be a contrast of metal structures and lightweight materials in a bright red, inspired by London's post boxes, buses, and telephone boxes. Serving as a public space on the gallery's lawn, it will host a café and Serpentine's Park Nights, a talk and events series that attracts up to 250,000 visitors every summer.
http://www.serpentinegallery.org

Melbourne Water "Creating Liveable Cities "
July 15-25
Melbourne, Australia

The result of a year-long collaboration between Melbourne Water and the State of Design Festival, this exhibition brings together leading local designers to present installations relating to current water use and suggestions for sustainable change.
http://www.stateofdesign.com.au

"New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape" exhibit
July 15 - October 3
San Francisco, USA

On view at at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), this display is a restaging of a historically significant exhibition held in 1975 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, which "signaled the emergence of a radically new approach to landscape and demonstrated the influence of Conceptualism and Minimalism on photography in the 1970s."
http://www.sfmoma.org

Sydney Design 2010
July 31 - August 15
Sydney, Australia

For the 14th edition of its two-week design festival, Sydney has come up with a program of more than 70 events across the city, which all center around the theme of 'Tell us a Story.' Highlights include the exhibition Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography, a 2010 Australian International Design Awards display, and a designers' market. A pass that grants access to all activities during the event costs $20.
http://www.sydneydesign.com.au