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Psycho Buildings: Hayward Gallery

Artists from around the world have transformed a gallery with atmospheric structures including an outdoor boating lake.

Visitors to the Hayward Gallery enjoy the rooftop boating lake, an exhibit by 'Gelitin' from Austria
Artists from around the world have transformed a gallery with atmospheric structures including an outdoor boating lake Credit: Clara Molden
View of Cold Study of a Disaster, by Los Carpinteros
As the highlight of The Hayward's 40th anniversary season, 10 artists have transformed the London gallery inside and out Credit: Clara Molden
A visitor looks inside an installation entitled 'Life Tunnel' by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Bow
'Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture' runs from May 28 to August 25 at The Hayward, Southbank Centre Credit: AP
Visitors are seen inside a sculpture entitled 'Observatory, Air-Port-City' by Argentinean artist Tomas Saraceno
A huge dome structure allows visitors to enter at ground level or climb up onto its transparent air supported "pillow" Credit: AP
A visitor to the Hayward examines the installation 'Life fog frog ...Fog frog, 2008', which smells of spices and was created by Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto's installation 'Life fog frog ...Fog frog, 2008', is a sensory environment which smells of pepper and cloves Credit: Clara Molden
A woman peers inside Doh Ho Suh's exhibit Fallen Star
Korean artist Do Ho Suh has created two works. 'Fallen Star' is a detailed 1:5 scale model of his childhood home in Korea crashing into his New York brownstone apartment Credit: GETTY
Doh Ho Suh's exhibit 'Staircase -V, 2008' made of polyester and stainless steel
His other work 'Staircase V' is a ghostly evocation of the basement staircase in the artist's apartment that he has fashioned from red semi-translucent fabric Credit: GETTY
Rachel Whiteread's Village, a collection of 250 dolls' houses
'Village' by Rachel Whiteread features more than 200 individually lit dolls houses arranged in an eerie and atmospheric hillside scene Credit: Clara Molden
Mike Nelson's work To the Memory of H.P. Lovecraft, 1999, one of the installations on show in the new exhibition Psycho Buildings
Mike Nelson has taken an axe to one gallery so it appears an unseen beast has torn it apart in a frenzied attempt to set itself free Credit: Clara Molden