[Here's the most recent post, from Season 4.]

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 so 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: