The pavilion and events programme celebrate granite stones re-purposed as new seating outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

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Why Stone? Why Now?
At a time when cities are rethinking how they build — and what they build with — From the Thames to Eternity offers a quietly radical proposition: that the most sustainable material is often one already here. That reuse is not merely practical, but profound. And that in choosing to honour what came before, we build more thoughtfully for what comes next.

Through stone, we tell the story of our place in the City, how it evolved, how it was made and, together, how it continues to be remade.

DIGITAL INTERACTIVE TRAIL
The walk traces London’s material history from its Roman origins to its Victorian infrastructure and beyond. You’ll discover the city’s hidden archive of stone and learn to read the streets in an entirely new way.

DIGITAL MAP HERE

London is a city built in layers. Beneath the glass and steel of the contemporary skyline, beneath the Victorian grandeur of the Embankment and the Georgian streets of the Square Mile, lies a deeper archive: stone. Quarried, transported, laid, worn, broken and rebuilt — over and over — for two thousand years.

This pavilion has been made from recycled aluminium, recycled 100% recycled GreenCast© acrylic, and reclaimed stone which will go on to be used in other projects. and buildings.

When imagining the Pavilion we considered the it as standing in stone that has been here for centuries, yet it is a structure that will be gone in weeks. Our place in this relationship? We are rooted in the present but the City is enduring.

These three words describe our thinking around the pavilion

EPHEMERAL
The condition reflecting the fleeting moment, this temporary structure passes through the festival month of June 2026.

ETERNITY
The backdrop. STONE, the City’s deep time, the geological and the ancient, the material that outlasts everything human.

BELONGING
The thing we feel between the ephemeral and the eternal. Not permanent, not fleeting, but rooted. Present. Here.

Sustainable Suppliers & Fabricators

URBAN LEARNERS created and built the pavilion structure with the support of several suppliers, specialists, makers, and crafts people using skills both ancient and modern.

PAYE Stonework & Restoration were fundamental partners to the realisation of this installation. Without their generous support, logistics, warehousing and good will this installation would not have been possible.