P.S.1 Young Architects Program

I always loved this competition and looked forward for its results, that are finally here. The difference this year is that I will be able to attend!!!! (yes, die with envy!).
For those who are not familiar with it, it’s a competition for young architects to design a very low budget project for the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s courtyard to host the Warm up parties. This year was won by Ball-Nogues from LA with their project “Liquid Sky”. This is the third time in a row that it’s won by an argentinian born architect. The proposal is a series of connected tents made of colored translucent scales made of a material called Technora (sounds as if Daft punk named it) supported by towers made of utility poles that have some hammocks at the base. In the contiguous space there’s the “Droopscape” wich is a slack catenary belly that shifts and flows in the wind, supported by drench towers that periodically soak visitors below with their gravity-induced tip buckets.
The runners up are Gage/Clemenceau Architects (New York), IwamotoScott (San Francisco), Mos (Brooklyn), and Ruy Klein (New York). The designs will be presented in an exhibition in MoMA’s Louise Reinhardt Smith Gallery, from June 27 to September 8. I’ll post pictures of everything when I go.
Visit the image gallery at Wired
::information from the P.S.1 via Inhabitat::
[[post by Cesar]]
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Posted: June 13th, 2007
at 12:31pm by cesarcotta
Categories: architecture, competitions, installation, my ninja, please, tech
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hola amigo exelente post. me lo trate de leer todo pero bueno no hay caso muchas de las palabras no las entiendo,pero entendi la idea, me asombram los coloridos y las formas asi como la predisposicion de la gente que lo organiza esperemos que algun dia podamos hacer algo como esto aca en argentina, bueno te dejo un abrazo y espero charlar pronto con vos.
PD: come bien, dormi mucho, y protejete te eztrañamos estudio GIGAMTE.
maximus
25 Jun 07 at 4:51 pm
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cesar at p.s.1 at architecture.mnp
28 Jun 07 at 8:48 am
[...] [ed. note : this is a follow up post to Cesar’s article on Liquid Sky by Ball-Nogues (remember this?), this year’s winner of the P.S. 1 Young Architects courtyard installation] [...]
Liquid Espionage at architecture.mnp
2 Jul 07 at 10:39 pm