This seeming cleft in a cliff is actually the entrance to this year's Serpentine Pavilion, the annual temporary
architectual experiment and café at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park.
It's something to aim for as the object of a long bike ride across town, all the easier now they've finished the dedicated "cycle superhighway" along the Embankment (all Dutch-style separated roadspace and dedicated traffic light phases).
Seen from
other angles, the Pavilion is not so much of a
dark cavern. Since it's made of open fibreglass boxes, presumably quite light and easy to bolt together quickly, it's light and airy inside: though the
breeziness might lose its charm on other sorts of summer day.
In the past, the pavilion has been a
throwback to the 70s in style, a
cloister hidden by a dark corridor, and a
cork-lined hobbit-hole, among others; the last one I went to see was a
Meccano puzzle, which like this year's almost invited exploratory climbing.
But these fibreglass boxes presumably don't sustain much additional weight, or more likely the potential for a painful tumble is too great, because there were attendants posted to warn off any adventurous toddlers (of any age).
And there were some things worth seeing on the ride there, too:
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