2016年蛇形画廊夏季展馆及“四栋夏屋”丨英国伦敦

The author of the Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion 2016 will be Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels Group BIG

With the arrival of the year, we traditionally await when the curators of the Serpentine Gallery in London will announce the name of the designer of their summer pavilion. Each year, the fame of this institution without permanent art collections increases, until their summer installations have ranked among the top ten most visited architectural exhibitions in the world.

The design of the sixteenth pavilion of the Serpentine Gallery was entrusted to Danish architect

Bjarke Ingels

, whose Copenhagen studio BIG was established in 2005 after the dissolution of the no less famous office PLOT. Currently,

BIG

has 11 leading architects and over 300 employees working on projects in more than 25 countries.

Compared to previous years, however, a novelty will be the "four summer houses" inspired by the nearby pavilion of Karolina of Ansbach, which was designed by English architect William Kent in 1734-35.

The authors of the summer houses, each measuring just 25 m², are a quartet of architects whose age difference ranges from 36 to 93 years:

Kunlé Adeyemi

(Amsterdam),

Barkow Leibinger

(Berlin),

Yona Friedman

(Paris) and

Asif Khan

(London).

All of the aforementioned fulfill the main condition of the Serpentine Gallery, that they have not yet had the opportunity for a realization on British territory. The sixteenth summer pavilion will be accessible to visitors of Kensington Gardens from June 10 to October 9, 2016.