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The four Summer Houses are inspired by the nearby Queen Caroline's Temple, a classical style summer house, built in 1734 and a stone's throw from the Serpentine Gallery. In line with the criteria for the selection of the Pavilion architect, each architect chosen by the Serpentine has yet to build a permanent building in England.

The Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is an 'unzipped wall' that is transformed from straight line to three-dimensional space, creating a dramatic structure that by day houses a café and free family activities and by night becomes a space for the Serpentine's acclaimed Park Nights programme of performative works by artists, writers and musicians.

Kunlé Adeyemi's Summer House is an inverse replica of Queen Caroline's Temple - a tribute to its robust form, space and material, recomposed into a new sculptural object. Barkow Leibinger was inspired by another, now extinct, 18th Century pavilion also designed by William Kent, which rotated and offered 360 degree views of the park. Yona Friedman's Summer House takes the form of a modular structure that can be assembled and disassembled in different formations and builds upon the architect's pioneering project La Ville Spatiale (Spatial City).
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