The Rainbow Pavilion for North Larnarkshire Council in Strathclyde Country Park is a collaboration between artist Kate V Robertson, the schoolchildren of New Monkland Primary School, and the architecture studio O'DonnellBrown.

In this project, the structure uses the principle design elements of the community classroom in a much larger format. A series of "rain screens" cast shadows and distort sunlight creating rainbow prisms that bounce around the interior brought to life by the movement of people using the space.

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O’DonnellBrown is a multiple award-winning Glasgow-based architecture practice with experience across a range of specialisms and a keen interest in what it takes to make a positive contribution to our built environment. Founded in 2013, by Jennifer O’Donnell and Sam Brown, the work across the UK, O’DonnellBrown is committed to bringing about confident change in the places they know and love.

Built works to date include The Greenhouse, the studio’s unique workspace in Pollokshields, and a new annex building and outdoor learning space at Seven Mills Primary School in Tower Hamlets, London. The practice is currently working on two community-led redevelopment projects: Millport Town Hall on the Isle of Cumbrae, and Maxwell Park Pavilion in Pollokshields, Glasgow, as well as several residential developments throughout Glasgow.

O’DonnellBrown was a finalist in The Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards 2019 and features in The Architecture Foundation’s New Architects 4 (2021). The practice has also been included in the Architects’ Journal’s 40 under 40 – a showcase of architecture’s brightest up-and-coming talent (December 2020).
Kate V Robertson is a Glasgow-based artist, completing an MA from The Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Her recent commissions for the new Barclays Campus, Clyde Place, Glasgow – has explored the illusion of 3D space experienced across 2D surfaces. 

Robertson began experimenting with the materials recycled from mobile phone, tablet, and laptop screens in step with our rising dependency on such items and subsequently exhibited related works in the 2018 exhibition Divided and Yet Mutual and recently in the solo exhibition Post at Stallan-Brand Gallery, Glasgow. Robertson, like many, is drawn to the distorting and distracting quality of the optical effect, and endless promises offered from scrolling across an illuminated screen. 

Her work questions our relationship to technology – particularly the devices that are discarded in the name of technological improvement set against our responsibility to the environment.
Published on: November 11, 2021
Cite: "Celebrating outdoor play and learning. Rainbow Pavilion by O'DonnellBrown + Kate V Robertson" METALOCUS. Accessed February 24, 2025
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/celebrating-outdoor-play-and-learning-rainbow-pavilion-odonnellbrown-kate-v-robertson> ISSN 1139-6415
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