You're starting to realize -- pavilions are placemaking gold

You're starting to realize -- pavilions are placemaking gold

pavilions are placemaking gold
pavilions are placemaking gold

They are outside, with plenty of fresh air flowing through. Yet they also define a room or a series of rooms. And they provide shade, and a place to relax.

Are pavilions the ideal placemaking structure?

Seems like they are. They are piling up in your YouTube feed. 

Here's one of the first pavilions to pop up. 

20+ pavilions here:

Pavilions are simple. Generally "lightly-constructed." And they always provide something that is becoming increasingly necessary and important: shade.

And, as Merriam-Webster confirms, the word has strong connotations of "luxury," "sumpturousness," and "color."

What's not to like?

Three more pavilions in this playlist:

Back, to a pigeon

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