Through 5 September, 2004, a canopy designed by nArchitects will be on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island, Queens, New York. P.S.1 sponsors an annual Young Architects Program, a competition for a courtyard canopy for their museum with a total budget of $60,000 USD. The Young Architects Program consists of twenty five candidates (nominated by a group of experts, curators and editors), which are then reduced to a pool of five from where a winner is chosen.

This year's winner is nArchitects, a New York firm founded by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang. Their winning design is a large, open bamboo structure, featuring a wading pool and fog nozzles. The P.S.1 courtyard and canopy hosts Warm Up (on Saturdays as always), an annual music festival featuring DJs, liquor, beach chairs and loud music under the undulating bamboo canopy.
 

 

 

Previous winners of the Young Architects Program are:

1998 - Gelatin
1999 - Philip Johnson (ok, obviously not young, but it was a whole MoMA tie in thing)
2000 - SHoP / Sharpen Holden Pasquarelli
2001 - ROY
2002 - William E. Massie
2003 - Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (a part of the MoMA Empire) is online at ps1.org
 
 
     
 
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by Bruce Mau and the Institute Without Borders
(2004) Phaidon Press
     

 

 
So you say you want a revolution. Massive Change is not a book about the world of design, it is a book about the design of the world, at least that's what it says on the back cover....
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