If you've ever found  yourself on the corner of Center Street and Kenmare Street in downtown Manhattan, you've probably noticed an absurdly narrow storefront space with a really interesting design that allows much of the exterior walls to rotate open, exposing a really compact but impressive exhibition within. This is the Storefront for Art and Architecture and it's a seldom-celebrated cultural feather in the already crowded cap of EMERGE's fair city. Here is one reason why:

Whitehouse Redux



In collaboration with Surface Magazine and Control Group, the Storefront is holding a design contest to reimagine and redesign the White House. Three winners will be chosen and their design materials, including videos, images, designs, drawings etc will be showcased in a month-long exhibition come July 2008. The contest is to be judged by Beatriz Colomina, Architectural historian, New York; Stefano Boeri, Editor-in-chief, Abitare magazine, Milan; Liz Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York; John Maeda, President Elect, Rhode Island School of Design; 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. Winners will also receive cash prizes, a trip to NYC for the exhibition, accommodations at the appropriately named White House Hotel, and exposure in Surface.





Posted by James Friedman

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