Julia Peyton-Jones’s swansong as gallery director includes four more summer houses in Kensington Gardens,designed by architects aged between 36 to 93
“Bigamy” is how the maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) Danish architect Bjarke Ingels describes the work of his practice, the Bjarke Ingels Group (or BIG), or which has been announced as the designer of this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion. “Why acquire one when you can acquire both?” he often quips,in defence of his gleefully pluralist architectural approach.
It is a philosophy that now seems to acquire been adopted by the Serpentine too. Not content with having just one pavilion on its Kensington Gardens lawn this summer, it has commissioned four more architects to design a series of summer houses to move with it.
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Source: theguardian.com