Julia Peyton-Jones’s swansong as gallery director includes four more summer houses in Kensington Gardens,designed by architects aged between 36 and 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 ample), and which has been announced as the designer of this year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion. “Why own one when you can own both?” he often quips,in defence of his gleefully pluralist architectural approach.
It is a philosophy that now seems to own 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 go with it.
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Source: theguardian.com