Brooklyn studio So-il beats out Danish juggernaut Big in battle over a tiny gravel triangle in Queens.
Last year it was Mos, this year it's So-il. If there's one thing architects love more than acronyms, it's weird references to nature. Which is exactly what the MoMA off-shoot P.S. 1's Young Architects Program is about: Every summer since 2000, the museum has picked an up-and-coming studio to redesign its barren, concrete-walled triangular courtyard in Long Island City, Brooklyn, as a riff on water and an oasis from the city. Also, it's one hell of a summertime party for NYC. So we got WORKac's farm in 2008, Mos's volcanoes in 2009, and this June... a trampoline strip club.
Most see the Young Architects Program as a launchpad for the careers of tiny, experimental studios like SHoP, which won as a four-year-old firm in 2000 and now boasts a staff of 65 and major projects like the Atlantic Yards development.
Last year it was Mos, this year it's So-il. If there's one thing architects love more than acronyms, it's weird references to nature. Which is exactly what the MoMA off-shoot P.S. 1's Young Architects Program is about: Every summer since 2000, the museum has picked an up-and-coming studio to redesign its barren, concrete-walled triangular courtyard in Long Island City, Brooklyn, as a riff on water and an oasis from the city. Also, it's one hell of a summertime party for NYC. So we got WORKac's farm in 2008, Mos's volcanoes in 2009, and this June... a trampoline strip club.
Most see the Young Architects Program as a launchpad for the careers of tiny, experimental studios like SHoP, which won as a four-year-old firm in 2000 and now boasts a staff of 65 and major projects like the Atlantic Yards development.
- 1/22/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
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