Serpentine Summer Houses put up for sale on The Modern House
The four Summer Houses built to accompany BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion have been listed for sale through architecture-led estate agent The Modern House.
The temple-inspired structures ? built alongside for the pavilion for the first time this year ? were designed by Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi, Berlin studio Barkow Leibinger, Paris-based architect Yona Friedman and British architect Asif Khan.
The four Sepentine Summer Houses are now available to buy through The Modern House
They are now all available to buy through The Modern House. Barkow Leibinger's curving timber Summer House is listed on the website at £125,000, while the other three are priced at £95,000.
Related story: Four temple-inspired Summer Houses built to accompany BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Now in its 16th year, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is usually sold privately ? a buyer is often found even before construction work has started.
But this is the first time in years a structure has been openly sold through an agency.
Barkow Leibinger's looping Summer House is listed on the website at £125,000, while the other three are priced at £95,000
The Modern House, which specialises in selling architect-designed Modernist buildings, is facilitating the sales on a pro-bono basis, with support from fellow UK estate agent Knight Frank.
A spokesperson for the Serpentine Galleries told Dezeen the proceeds are instrumental in funding the project.
But she said the out...
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