Architect Jaimie Shorten will install six singing shark sculptures in a London canal after winning this year's Antepavilion competition organised by the Architecture Foundation.
Titled SHARKS!, this pavilion will consist of six model sharks containing audio equipment. Positioned to look like they are leaping from the murky Regents Canal, the sharks will sing and give lectures on architecture and urbanism.

Shorten's winning design is a tongue-in-cheek comment on Hackney Council's decision to serve enforcement notices against two of three previous Antepavilions, which references a well-known planning battle over a large shark embedded in the roof of a terrace near Oxford.
The annual Antepavilion competition, held by the Architecture Foundation (AF), invites participants to design an experimental pavilion that demonstrates an "anti-authoritarian impulse". "This year's Antepavilion contestants had to contend with two quite challenging requirements," said AF director Ellis Woodman.
"First, the structure had to be located on pontoons in the canal and second it had to respond to the planning battle that the Antepavilion programme has provoked," he told Dezeen.

The Antepavilion project dates back to 2017, when PUP Architects built a sneaky rooftop micro home disguised as an air duct on top of a warehouse as the inaugural pavilion.
The following year, an inflatable performance venue called AirDraft was constructed on a barge by architects Thomas Rand...