Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Serpentine Pavilion commission

The Serpentine Galleries have commissioned Dibdo Francis Kr to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in Londons Kensington Gardens this summer (23 June-8 October). Kr, born in Burkina Faso and now based in Berlin, is the first African architect to participate in the prestigious annual programme.
 
The Serpentine Pavilion launched in 2000 as a platform for major international names to build their first structures in the UK capital. Past pavilions were designed by Zaha Hadid (2000), Frank Gehr