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BIG to design 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, alongside smaller "Summer Houses" by Kunlé Adeyemi, Barkow Leibinger, Yona Friedman and Asif Kahn
BIG will design this year's Serpentine Pavilion (center: Bjarke Ingels; portrait by Jonas Bie) and four practices were asked to design smaller Summer Houses (clockwise): Yona Friedman at work in Los Angeles; Asif Khan, portrait courtesy Adriano Mauri / Design Indaba; Barkow Leibinger, portrait by Benedikt Kraft; Kunlé Adeyemi, portrait by Reze Bonna. Asif Khan: Guggenheim Helsinki, Finland, 2015; Image courtesy Asif Khan. NLÉ: Makoko Floating School, Lagos, Nigeria, 2012; Image by George Osodi Barkow Leibinger: Fellows Pavilion - American Academy in Berlin 2015; Image © Stefan Müller BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): The Mountain, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007; Image by Iwan Baan Queen Caroline's Temple, Kensington Gardens, London; Photo by Garry Knight Yona Friedman: Space Chain construction at the Vigne Museum, Livio Felluga winery, Italy, 2014; Photo by Jean Baptiste Decavele Yona Friedman: Drawings of La Ville Spatiale, 1958; Courtesy Yona Friedman Archives, Paris Asif Khan; portrait courtesy Adriano Mauri / Design Indaba

Asif Khan; portrait courtesy Adriano Mauri / Design Indaba
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Asif Khan; portrait courtesy Adriano Mauri / Design Indaba