What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today? On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenge you to design a new residence for the world's most powerful individual. The best ideas, designs, descriptions, images, and videos will be selected by some of the world's most distinguished designers and critics and featured in a month-long exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture in July 2008. All three winners will be flown to New York to collect their prizes at the opening party. Register now and send in your ideas for the Presidential Palace of the future!

JURY   Stefano Boeri (Editor-in-chief, Abitare magazine, Milan) Beatriz Colomina (Director of the Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University) Liz Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York) John Maeda (President Elect, Rhode Island School of Design RISD) Geoff Manaugh (BLDGblog and Dwell magazine, San Francisco) Mark Wigley (Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University) Laetitia Wolff (Editorial director, Surface magazine, New York)     PRIZES   The best competition entries from around the world will be exhibited in the Storefront Gallery (New York) in July 2008, and in a special page on the gallery's website. They will also be published in Surface magazine. The authors of the three best projects, as chosen by the jury, will be flown to New York and given three day's free accommodation in The White House Hotel on the Bowery.   First Prize                $5,000 Second Prize            $3,000 Third Prize               $1,500     TIMELINE   January 15, 2008  Competition launched March 1, 2008      Online submissions accepted April 20, 2008       Registration and submissions deadline May 2008            Jury selects winners                    May 2008            Winners announced                    July 2008            Exhibition and prizegiving at Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC      SPONSORS  The Architect's Newspaper    NRI  SURFACE    Storefront for Art and Architecture  97 Kenmare Street  10012 New York, NY  Tel. 212.431.5795

Tag it:

?