(Six towers support the kaleidoscopic patterns of color created by tinted Mylar petals)
Every spring we look forward to the announcement of the winner of the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program design competition, yet another sign that summer and P.S.1’s “Warm Up” music series is right around the corner. This year the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center have an announced the competition’s 8th annual winning installation in P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard by Los Angeles-based firm Ball-Nogues, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues.
The competition invites emerging architects to propose an installation for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, identifying and providing an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture. 2007’s winning installation, Liquid Sky, designed by Ball-Nogues (Los Angeles), will be on view in the P.S.1 courtyard beginning June 21.
Liquid Sky will immerse the viewer in kaleidoscopic patterns of color created by sunlight filtering through an array of translucent, tinted Mylar petals that resemble blossoming flowers of stained glass. Together, the petals form a tensioned surface that reconfigures the horizon, cresting above the walls of the P.S.1 courtyard. Six towers constructed from untreated utility poles support the surface while providing discrete spaces at their base for relaxing on enormous community hammocks made of brightly colored netting. For the adjacent outdoor gallery, the team has designed the Droopscape, 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 winners receive the allotted project budget of $70,000.
Make sure to check back to their site for a list of all of this summer’s special DJ lineups.
___
BLOWOUTS IN BABYLON
If you’re in LA this weekend, it’s DJ AM’s birthday bash- Banana Split at LAX on Sunday, April 1st. Steve Aoki and AM himself spinning tunes including a heavy metal set… Click here to RSVP.
Another Los Angeles event- make sure you save the date next weekend, Saturday, April 7th. Opening Ceremony celebrates the opening of their L.A. location at EchoPlex in Echo Park. Benjamin Cho, Brian Degraw, and Leo Fitzpatrick providing sounds. Click on flyer for more info.
Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>