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摘要

Richard Rogers' afterparty to celebrate the opening of this year's Serpentine Pavilion was a convenient place to gauge reactions to Peter Zumthor's hortus condusus. Everyone from David Chipperfield to Peter St John to Patrik Schumacher was there, comparing notes on the success of Zumthor's enigmatic black box. In his welcome address to his guests, Rogers spoke of Zumthor's pavilion as an ideal typology for London - a city known for its parks, in which citizens escape London's bustle. 'And here we have a park within a park', said Rogers, expressing succinctly the riddle-like qualities of this year's pavilion.