Re-engineering Jewish Tradition. The Design Winners of Sukkah City, 2011.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzjYCJsPTUsW2PElse3XIZg_RXeKkqiyK0NnkPxu1lmBdljM2DY6fSepjm-YXsIiNx78oAQNh9oRBaxpXnkWfroEhuDkWqb4PO1tozJZvoOtoVsEiWRRtosNLePXExNW2Te2hruptdiY/s1600/sukkah+city+tjechman.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662801221594139730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzjYCJsPTUsW2PElse3XIZg_RXeKkqiyK0NnkPxu1lmBdljM2DY6fSepjm-YXsIiNx78oAQNh9oRBaxpXnkWfroEhuDkWqb4PO1tozJZvoOtoVsEiWRRtosNLePXExNW2Te2hruptdiY/s400/sukkah+city+tjechman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 544px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">above: one of the ten winning submissions, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >60 degree Sukkah by </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Filip Tejchman of Brooklyn, NY, and Cambridge, MA</span><br /><br />Some of my readers may recall <a href="http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2010/09/sukkah-city-12-radically-re-imagined.html">a post I wrote last year on Sukkah Cit</a>y, a design competition held in New York that proposed redesigning a Sukkah, a traditional shelter created for the Jewish Festival Of Sukkot.<br /> <br />Building and expanding upon New York’s Sukkah City 2010, Sukkah City STL proposed a re-imagination of the Sukkah, an ancient and temporary structure used by both nomads and harvesters. The jury selected work that defined and defied boundaries using ancient law and the contemporary experience of shelter. The design winners are below.<br /><br />Emery McClure Architecture, Lafayette, LA - <span style="font-style: italic;">Tené</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFOAwgXy-867uGfiClpeYjhbrvXKZNsE9mqY4d_I-nqnVDcMwLGoW9j6K-oAGri1I2dwBOmrFeLR0ruKibK4UqU2aMiBu5Kz5J6WOzR-wImVjK1r2ml1GBYv4Y-cpxqnAAp9NwpFUqUI/s1600/Sukkah-McClure_250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662801810933759698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAFOAwgXy-867uGfiClpeYjhbrvXKZNsE9mqY4d_I-nqnVDcMwLGoW9j6K-oAGri1I2dwBOmrFeLR0ruKibK4UqU2aMiBu5Kz5J6WOzR-wImVjK1r2ml1GBYv4Y-cpxqnAAp9NwpFUqUI/s400/Sukkah-McClure_250.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 462px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6mieGW5Yoxk-thOnS1ePhcxTgFx04xrAvAeH9JizIFsRbkvVj1H3bfxORKis62_Ee-kYY4pFbBZ6wjoS9KVFW1srBXiGL6RyUi9O7SvJM6s87Xta_bciUkDHRlAMd00mkLU7e1ZD4h8/s1600/Sukkah-McClure_2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662801942307853314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6mieGW5Yoxk-thOnS1ePhcxTgFx04xrAvAeH9JizIFsRbkvVj1H3bfxORKis62_Ee-kYY4pFbBZ6wjoS9KVFW1srBXiGL6RyUi9O7SvJM6s87Xta_bciUkDHRlAMd00mkLU7e1ZD4h8/s400/Sukkah-McClure_2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 381px;" /></a><br /><br />Act3 (Ben Kaplan), Trivers Architecture and STL Beacon, St. Louis -<span style="font-style: italic;"> Storycubes</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-azc_z5qfQxxfhYBgXxtdxJgYLmpSBgckazO8wBERBN3AOoLVt-N9vRAMEFg3KPM47sjexWTW9EevckgP2Dbd4zH6_Xw8VsfEaYsltHXI8cD6lSzRsrYXGtqMzT1jWaWsGgi-Ibhn9g/s1600/sukkah+city+ben+kaplan.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662801625671471890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-azc_z5qfQxxfhYBgXxtdxJgYLmpSBgckazO8wBERBN3AOoLVt-N9vRAMEFg3KPM47sjexWTW9EevckgP2Dbd4zH6_Xw8VsfEaYsltHXI8cD6lSzRsrYXGtqMzT1jWaWsGgi-Ibhn9g/s400/sukkah+city+ben+kaplan.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 363px;" /></a><br /><br />Sean Corriel, New York - <span style="font-style: italic;">Thru-motion</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjBtoNdwM9XG7K9hs8iv_3Kpq2wYJJ1VUtt_C95x7CrrwtrgbC1W3ano3dJW92H5GZz9ChFjQ8qIUbjQ11y6brDAaFlpf6pWySI5iQJbmLOVfKrZH8T60Um79gQZgwgnKAIJPYTmtTq4/s1600/sukkah-corriel.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800937809745458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjBtoNdwM9XG7K9hs8iv_3Kpq2wYJJ1VUtt_C95x7CrrwtrgbC1W3ano3dJW92H5GZz9ChFjQ8qIUbjQ11y6brDAaFlpf6pWySI5iQJbmLOVfKrZH8T60Um79gQZgwgnKAIJPYTmtTq4/s400/sukkah-corriel.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 281px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAEY9aO-Xbf3dBTWMLgzXtS10oASIQvt0uOJI3koQuic2LJBsjK6k9LafuFw9kaxvns_jIvvm-kkyjckqxSgFOLHJmR7WLMOQLut32Gd_VFY5kQLsgUvM_7ZD4FqX1BhbzX7v8Ij1nS0/s1600/sukkah-corriel1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800840246715026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfAEY9aO-Xbf3dBTWMLgzXtS10oASIQvt0uOJI3koQuic2LJBsjK6k9LafuFw9kaxvns_jIvvm-kkyjckqxSgFOLHJmR7WLMOQLut32Gd_VFY5kQLsgUvM_7ZD4FqX1BhbzX7v8Ij1nS0/s400/sukkah-corriel1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 281px;" /></a><br /><br />Lea Oxenhandler and Evan Maxwell Litvin, <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadelphia</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU9w5nuJdR2nMUycgohRY-v_j6BRXl5j_sem9qIuQq3zSoBRDOeGpqORXZCNeSR_zz99cG5DdIFbHhn0UwoUqymjGvD_EImMwSeHtqdXLCak83lVhLsV5l0oFyt3_X4jBht7pD8_rK2M/s1600/Sukkah-Oxenhalder_250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800671146770066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU9w5nuJdR2nMUycgohRY-v_j6BRXl5j_sem9qIuQq3zSoBRDOeGpqORXZCNeSR_zz99cG5DdIFbHhn0UwoUqymjGvD_EImMwSeHtqdXLCak83lVhLsV5l0oFyt3_X4jBht7pD8_rK2M/s400/Sukkah-Oxenhalder_250.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 290px;" /></a><br /><br />Alexander Morley and Jennifer Wong, St. Louis - <span style="font-style: italic;">Exodus</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaH2exr9SkxUG7eGBh2PWl8zhTqcvqTqZjqoMmtSWvDokFbqgNbMIbIMmh0dwjnNLvRoDs9wcyfWEfjOW1y4FoEnkWBWk-2Go5S7cRUVw9ofe3EUiizgdAkIzzKRV8SYw76STP9TcBOLU/s1600/morley+wong1.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800486857009202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaH2exr9SkxUG7eGBh2PWl8zhTqcvqTqZjqoMmtSWvDokFbqgNbMIbIMmh0dwjnNLvRoDs9wcyfWEfjOW1y4FoEnkWBWk-2Go5S7cRUVw9ofe3EUiizgdAkIzzKRV8SYw76STP9TcBOLU/s400/morley+wong1.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 711px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAYhim1Q4Kzl9b27IxekEx6sS5V38FqbHjdKCWN169qJf_7DDIddLVa5KrTzOyFUu6zu4OyUfqelBMit8fxw3-AMAvw3fHt30nCIy8ka0k9EOS1q58IPRHsvJoCunxsQTXAbSwmyVwkg/s1600/morely-wong2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800411740296674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAYhim1Q4Kzl9b27IxekEx6sS5V38FqbHjdKCWN169qJf_7DDIddLVa5KrTzOyFUu6zu4OyUfqelBMit8fxw3-AMAvw3fHt30nCIy8ka0k9EOS1q58IPRHsvJoCunxsQTXAbSwmyVwkg/s400/morely-wong2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 547px;" /></a><br /><br />Casey Hughes Architects, Los Angeles - <span style="font-style: italic;">Sukkah Collective</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgaKIOXcNOdj_4ES66S2kjp-RbZWo_gfBArNFso6iwmW4M-flKIterTB7yFKo3G12n_mSUahIEI3BSy0kdTgQ1IZ6c8eVYut4TSDNHfZie-BbwMkykkhbOONeGbFCmVFB0t0oX8KgAhwQ/s1600/Sukkah-Casey_250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662800046795770786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgaKIOXcNOdj_4ES66S2kjp-RbZWo_gfBArNFso6iwmW4M-flKIterTB7yFKo3G12n_mSUahIEI3BSy0kdTgQ1IZ6c8eVYut4TSDNHfZie-BbwMkykkhbOONeGbFCmVFB0t0oX8KgAhwQ/s400/Sukkah-Casey_250.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 338px;" /></a><br /><br />Christine Yogiaman, Forrest Fulton and Ken Tracy, St. Louis -<span style="font-style: italic;"> Gleaned</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUU4TXodLFfgzkQr2HqAs8gAz4ZHd0QvVm46ekshh50iVljyRPEj4t6-1m11BZxnWnyXmw2qg5CUAMljO4gya-Iaq2L9yIEYVfqFX0vSaX0JnJWqyjkXB4P_dzrWAdlc1cc4jMD5P9PeE/s1600/Sukkah-Trivers_250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662802628529057314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUU4TXodLFfgzkQr2HqAs8gAz4ZHd0QvVm46ekshh50iVljyRPEj4t6-1m11BZxnWnyXmw2qg5CUAMljO4gya-Iaq2L9yIEYVfqFX0vSaX0JnJWqyjkXB4P_dzrWAdlc1cc4jMD5P9PeE/s400/Sukkah-Trivers_250.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 341px;" /></a><br /><br />John Kleinschmidt and Andy Sternad, New Orleans - <span style="font-style: italic;">L’Chime Sukkah</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdbCz7IgquikOqE967L1ia2_nbYr3YpxPgnkBboVHJhB26MAMR8Je_tGataVjUYDaLhiM7rK8u92R8FE5sZRkftcqrMauLaT1SX3r2p2iVcGQ6QasNx_AVauiVBtaIv_gcRD-v5RBr4JQ/s1600/Sukkah-Yogiaman_250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662799276054845330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdbCz7IgquikOqE967L1ia2_nbYr3YpxPgnkBboVHJhB26MAMR8Je_tGataVjUYDaLhiM7rK8u92R8FE5sZRkftcqrMauLaT1SX3r2p2iVcGQ6QasNx_AVauiVBtaIv_gcRD-v5RBr4JQ/s400/Sukkah-Yogiaman_250.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 404px;" /></a><br /><br />Bronwyn Charlton and Linda Levin, St. Louis<span style="font-style: italic;">. - Heliotrope</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0hElQAPp4XJ04OEOl0_NoI78ns_N8oRpn9vhT3SfKgCzH5HaY1mBh2Z_C3xH5TL1cwmHzPpvoWI3pRdT00c3WOeS8pRY9-rfZyOqlxWsvV4zgTcbSI6cuFdyNzC0Lnh-1sNvJOg7zu8Y/s1600/Sukkah1_60degree.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662798793606412290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0hElQAPp4XJ04OEOl0_NoI78ns_N8oRpn9vhT3SfKgCzH5HaY1mBh2Z_C3xH5TL1cwmHzPpvoWI3pRdT00c3WOeS8pRY9-rfZyOqlxWsvV4zgTcbSI6cuFdyNzC0Lnh-1sNvJOg7zu8Y/s400/Sukkah1_60degree.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 393px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/sukkahcitystl/winners">Learn more about each of the designs here.</a><br /><br />WHAT: Sukkah City STL: Defining & Defying Boundaries<br />WHEN: Oct. 18-22<br />WHERE: Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis, near the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building<br />COST: Free and open to the public<br /><br />The Jewish Feast of the Tabernacle, Sukkot, begins at sundown on Oct. 12, 2011, and ends at nightfall on Oct. 19. <br /><br />Support for Sukkah City STL is provided by the Charles and Bunny Burson Art Fund at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Re-engineering Jewish Tradition. The Design Winners of Sukkah City, 2011.

above: one of the ten winning submissions, 60 degree Sukkah by Filip Tejchman of Brooklyn, NY, and Cambridge, MA Some of my readers may reca...

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Sukkah City: 12 Radically Re-Imagined Traditional Jewish Shelters For Sukkot.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjK-Qs5WXVCrOiA1MQeMx0PYtEedk03SD4e-GllcbHMu7ulNIIjkED4Mt1xIXWRpIgtVAEK7T8AYfoqbPNBAoUZaaQHpMETMlwPq4Ms1A_FMSrFXCPETHme7a_N-wSxtWrjlJn6PpsUME/s1600/2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325846606641378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjK-Qs5WXVCrOiA1MQeMx0PYtEedk03SD4e-GllcbHMu7ulNIIjkED4Mt1xIXWRpIgtVAEK7T8AYfoqbPNBAoUZaaQHpMETMlwPq4Ms1A_FMSrFXCPETHme7a_N-wSxtWrjlJn6PpsUME/s400/2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 484px; height: 374px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: a modern sukkah, Fractured Bubble, by Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan was "Fan favorite"</span></span><br /><br />Thanks to Ren and her wonderful blog, <a href="http://ladyofthearts.blogspot.com/">Lady of The Arts</a>, I have learned about 'Sukkah City', an international design competition which took place last week in New York to re-imagine Sukkahs, the temporary shelters or dwellings built during the week-long traditional Jewish Festival Of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot">Sukkot</a> to commemorate the homelessness that occurred during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt.<br /><br />It's not easy to describe a Sukkah, so I'll let this video by Liz Nord do it for you:<br /><object height="323" width="530"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/--njD4GOMe4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/--njD4GOMe4?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="323" width="530"></embed></object><br />Traditional sukkahs:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUo-eZaQwAXx0y2ar2FsasJuJaIGjDSKks4RB1RxIs0SeH7etrSbUED2anNU5133Fd0WKX_9K-gAXoWi4vpry50sawkOeqlzCqILCYDFX6ihPmqGNxncjmsmOh6BAwUxYzB5j3b9stam4j/s1600/800px-Sukkah_Roofs.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521343185530754818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUo-eZaQwAXx0y2ar2FsasJuJaIGjDSKks4RB1RxIs0SeH7etrSbUED2anNU5133Fd0WKX_9K-gAXoWi4vpry50sawkOeqlzCqILCYDFX6ihPmqGNxncjmsmOh6BAwUxYzB5j3b9stam4j/s400/800px-Sukkah_Roofs.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 347px;" /></a><br /><br />624 people from 43 countries entered the competition. The 12 temporary structures that were chosen as the winning designs by a very impressive jury (listed later in this post) were constructed in Union Square Park’s South Plaza and were displayed publicly on September 19th and 20th (one of them, P.YGROS.C, collapsed immediately after construction). Here are the 12 winning concepts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gathering</span> by Dale Suttle, So Sugita, Ginna Nguyen:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhbip5r4mLtEthbnyuI36Oky4uVK7iXdCilUdDoFw3vnPyH7H3pD5XZV1GDEiwfW6fsZdAtQwDRoMygLaN2Dl6iYov6b2Gtfu2PL6rbDhHSrzG-Zsvbg22hmwl1ZtEsJmfnSIUuNja2HH/s1600/3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325768546786322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhbip5r4mLtEthbnyuI36Oky4uVK7iXdCilUdDoFw3vnPyH7H3pD5XZV1GDEiwfW6fsZdAtQwDRoMygLaN2Dl6iYov6b2Gtfu2PL6rbDhHSrzG-Zsvbg22hmwl1ZtEsJmfnSIUuNja2HH/s400/3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 405px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">LOG</span> by Kyle May and Scott Abrahams:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjixMfR0CeD7j1YL2esx-BZg8-FyFZenImD6k5VdErm6sClkVgVIVyebzsRQi_AdDi-J7eqsn0fUr_zF_iTf_8qqakux_Oq-FPBbdKp4KW3egRrxaoWgFBK3z3IFDLo2tAQMk29SMoDGN/s1600/4.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325646791930706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjixMfR0CeD7j1YL2esx-BZg8-FyFZenImD6k5VdErm6sClkVgVIVyebzsRQi_AdDi-J7eqsn0fUr_zF_iTf_8qqakux_Oq-FPBbdKp4KW3egRrxaoWgFBK3z3IFDLo2tAQMk29SMoDGN/s400/4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 405px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blo Puff</span> by Bittertang:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yRYnAzrzReL94B1wsGhL-wrBdqidWYi0GoQaAI5ylnmdaORYH1znBd6d6TrTAORBf7k_00HQn_hy10jnjb-p9VDc4crTef-Ylhha7IpZz3bX2CpMDZ6Rh-RPslvWevnBP5Yam9ZgufQW/s1600/1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325999635240306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yRYnAzrzReL94B1wsGhL-wrBdqidWYi0GoQaAI5ylnmdaORYH1znBd6d6TrTAORBf7k_00HQn_hy10jnjb-p9VDc4crTef-Ylhha7IpZz3bX2CpMDZ6Rh-RPslvWevnBP5Yam9ZgufQW/s400/1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 407px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.YGROS.C </span>/ passive hygroscopic curls by THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes with Jared Laucks:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF0oPrmK3N946N3rDEgPuY7ljpWW8ygR-pY5fGXLUHEmywXFgTq3gNLi8lzHFtTHY5gtA1Xw0FwlkolA8XliFsuToT2Y92X19dX4Z7Otp7rP3Yx56zNjtHMJoEH8x6xFif3wKoHk9XSCG/s1600/5.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325278740352178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF0oPrmK3N946N3rDEgPuY7ljpWW8ygR-pY5fGXLUHEmywXFgTq3gNLi8lzHFtTHY5gtA1Xw0FwlkolA8XliFsuToT2Y92X19dX4Z7Otp7rP3Yx56zNjtHMJoEH8x6xFif3wKoHk9XSCG/s400/5.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 407px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In Tension</span> by SO-IL:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaSuyrrDAQRhbbOXSJXwTpEdwLwiIzDvmRvK0T_Gh6eVJQaJombt3e5OwjXZF1v5Rr1OYiQuFXEkceEn_8Ura90U6-mmrpcjTeuF78VldaRzACiayZfwJAoylsXcTDfHReFg97VC8Skpf/s1600/6.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325117856963026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaSuyrrDAQRhbbOXSJXwTpEdwLwiIzDvmRvK0T_Gh6eVJQaJombt3e5OwjXZF1v5Rr1OYiQuFXEkceEn_8Ura90U6-mmrpcjTeuF78VldaRzACiayZfwJAoylsXcTDfHReFg97VC8Skpf/s400/6.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 410px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sukkah of the Signs</span> by Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44YUj1zqsshEwZSputtgjkSgwVuXf6gfWBeS-ELSBP1Z9VG2OygoV9Bcj-jBN1Dx1tKo7GQTdV2ITaM4n82Pbo7tOn8qcyLheXdChUHNXwAVg7ALo3MhtH1hazfdTNq2XF4zJGE7IFsu3/s1600/7.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325002236846466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44YUj1zqsshEwZSputtgjkSgwVuXf6gfWBeS-ELSBP1Z9VG2OygoV9Bcj-jBN1Dx1tKo7GQTdV2ITaM4n82Pbo7tOn8qcyLheXdChUHNXwAVg7ALo3MhtH1hazfdTNq2XF4zJGE7IFsu3/s400/7.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 402px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Star Cocoon</span> by Volkan Alkanoglu:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWdxUGlAx7TbuDaIpgQO7wqaHtqLJyO6rImBvdEyzj-34q9UfadqaeXy1BuCJ2J8YdaVeJZljPyl0rsipchux1iqUondBi7VUNnXmvAD8FTCHWxfu5nR2qukil1OPk1XIWgSl9gDTGgRZ/s1600/8.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521324920477084114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWdxUGlAx7TbuDaIpgQO7wqaHtqLJyO6rImBvdEyzj-34q9UfadqaeXy1BuCJ2J8YdaVeJZljPyl0rsipchux1iqUondBi7VUNnXmvAD8FTCHWxfu5nR2qukil1OPk1XIWgSl9gDTGgRZ/s400/8.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 519px; height: 402px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Single Thread </span>by Matter Practice:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtz4zXpq_TXIGzKnnur8NGTyxpl38fntSNMXwE_izvQLy5wBZZYqAIzFYIDWFiKavBxGPY_CiZQZVO23gWoZCLA3wvgDDle1aoTrOPsIr-uLbdB8jMUcHNbin7nDqZmiAxQfoVh11rWwD3/s1600/9.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521324685966289506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtz4zXpq_TXIGzKnnur8NGTyxpl38fntSNMXwE_izvQLy5wBZZYqAIzFYIDWFiKavBxGPY_CiZQZVO23gWoZCLA3wvgDDle1aoTrOPsIr-uLbdB8jMUcHNbin7nDqZmiAxQfoVh11rWwD3/s400/9.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 518px; height: 401px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shim Sukkah</span> by tinder, tinker:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuSZIuNVEBjxdo9Eow0xM1Zi3S1wkEy6T4rWwsWaVE73kXAN0LY9XJgLQkjTCeiqJUMQNKVhxOl18d9PMe46DZzhDVzEDPhKOmeezzureIURsS2oQMH5KXVPLHjphpJ6T9k8vmcgj0f0-/s1600/10.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521324599623294546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuSZIuNVEBjxdo9Eow0xM1Zi3S1wkEy6T4rWwsWaVE73kXAN0LY9XJgLQkjTCeiqJUMQNKVhxOl18d9PMe46DZzhDVzEDPhKOmeezzureIURsS2oQMH5KXVPLHjphpJ6T9k8vmcgj0f0-/s400/10.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 519px; height: 401px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Repetition meets Difference | Stability meets Volatileness</span> by Matthias Karc:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihA8HqE69_h2GemjsqbkQxgoprbLv0BRkjwiKreBweOR-RIvWXT7ZvCKtJMbwb4BEYNOWO1MKB7iP02S50mC7QhENRPVzbToacZRJHYwvL2MMwB3Nof5hetaW1LEv9Y5g9cz3ugiGLV4Yn/s1600/11.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521324524430592594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihA8HqE69_h2GemjsqbkQxgoprbLv0BRkjwiKreBweOR-RIvWXT7ZvCKtJMbwb4BEYNOWO1MKB7iP02S50mC7QhENRPVzbToacZRJHYwvL2MMwB3Nof5hetaW1LEv9Y5g9cz3ugiGLV4Yn/s400/11.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 404px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time/Timeless </span>by Peter Sagar:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSURm43MxlmRMLTurRpKJ2ymRklom5AZoPUKD00nUwTo1kf3xDZqz-5WlXcoElx7hT0f1xfPQ2U1gv-tiiPSQi_YBfDVmJAdHgUKnWmWiXcDNsXBsn0kowFY0a_k5A92NHeJLAE4bmFuO5/s1600/12.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521324429382975410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSURm43MxlmRMLTurRpKJ2ymRklom5AZoPUKD00nUwTo1kf3xDZqz-5WlXcoElx7hT0f1xfPQ2U1gv-tiiPSQi_YBfDVmJAdHgUKnWmWiXcDNsXBsn0kowFY0a_k5A92NHeJLAE4bmFuO5/s400/12.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 523px; height: 405px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fractured Bubble</span> by Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjK-Qs5WXVCrOiA1MQeMx0PYtEedk03SD4e-GllcbHMu7ulNIIjkED4Mt1xIXWRpIgtVAEK7T8AYfoqbPNBAoUZaaQHpMETMlwPq4Ms1A_FMSrFXCPETHme7a_N-wSxtWrjlJn6PpsUME/s1600/2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521325846606641378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTjK-Qs5WXVCrOiA1MQeMx0PYtEedk03SD4e-GllcbHMu7ulNIIjkED4Mt1xIXWRpIgtVAEK7T8AYfoqbPNBAoUZaaQHpMETMlwPq4Ms1A_FMSrFXCPETHme7a_N-wSxtWrjlJn6PpsUME/s400/2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 407px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://sukkahcity.com/">See all of the impressive entrants from 43 countries here.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reality Disappoints?</span></span><br />While the concept of Sukkah City is fresh and exciting, some of the more common criticisms of the event were that the discrepancy between the impressive renderings and actual built structures were fairly great-- the completed buildings were disappointing when compared with the imagined concepts.<br /><br />The Gathering Sukkah as imagined and as realized:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0wNZts_SLkcwj-9q9rN0kvxkqlaBh9TaaStRQIe6owe72CnAK-1VwfrETr-GsevCqP2SxoSwlZIQegbpfGPNQGXllxjHmke9EB6IkbGL36TogSASCErdv1Uhz8iBBaKA0ZXRcIPSeWcP/s1600/Gathering+side+by+side.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521341331588693714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0wNZts_SLkcwj-9q9rN0kvxkqlaBh9TaaStRQIe6owe72CnAK-1VwfrETr-GsevCqP2SxoSwlZIQegbpfGPNQGXllxjHmke9EB6IkbGL36TogSASCErdv1Uhz8iBBaKA0ZXRcIPSeWcP/s400/Gathering+side+by+side.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 232px;" /></a><br /><br />"Log" was one of the few designs that remained faithful to the original rendering:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6isWL0Ds0IWPrzBf3YuL5OHb_FZb9iQEjMs2BGpwBPs2SiUwet7MgzBas1XXj3WopteAHh83raZePl0JR0rkWfOOd0Cxa07sUNker0AJFTzz7TicCA60knm3JzD0hBH6puorKgY6J8AA/s1600/Picture+11.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521339486208255538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6isWL0Ds0IWPrzBf3YuL5OHb_FZb9iQEjMs2BGpwBPs2SiUwet7MgzBas1XXj3WopteAHh83raZePl0JR0rkWfOOd0Cxa07sUNker0AJFTzz7TicCA60knm3JzD0hBH6puorKgY6J8AA/s400/Picture+11.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 467px;" /></a><br /><br />The blog <a href="http://humanscribbles.blogspot.com/2010/09/simple-complexity-and-complex.html">Human's Scribbles </a> has great good side-by-side comparisons of the renderings with the completed structures.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQFLUYhiIatlPT7pPMvjlhn1yPrYbiBb3d5xZxzOeEo6sp2UBiMU8GlcV82C-S3Q3BxrA73yuNnMx0IZDnvU1-B4NAiZx9-sjAUZ-ChCb1lbbEd5QiTWxzJH_N08G9vxlBQ3QcLx7nrim/s1600/overhead+view.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521333261889386530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQFLUYhiIatlPT7pPMvjlhn1yPrYbiBb3d5xZxzOeEo6sp2UBiMU8GlcV82C-S3Q3BxrA73yuNnMx0IZDnvU1-B4NAiZx9-sjAUZ-ChCb1lbbEd5QiTWxzJH_N08G9vxlBQ3QcLx7nrim/s400/overhead+view.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 522px; height: 391px;" /></a><br /><br />The two day display culminated with Mayor Bloomberg announcing “Fractured Bubble,” a design created by Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan of Long Island City, Queens, as the “People’s Choice” winner:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhl2zHHjIS5W8BMoOrr8aKELQzZNJnw8vOxh0JhKWsVEWbEGktB5CVUMIdVQ_wG_I-x1lQwTD4CaP-R5wD6Ntt-BroBls6Y5jgJx1Vqouu1b3rvzPpq8Xlw4w4ImvTkuuyKOJd6wUdS23/s1600/fractured+bubble+side+by+side.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521339187412079122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhl2zHHjIS5W8BMoOrr8aKELQzZNJnw8vOxh0JhKWsVEWbEGktB5CVUMIdVQ_wG_I-x1lQwTD4CaP-R5wD6Ntt-BroBls6Y5jgJx1Vqouu1b3rvzPpq8Xlw4w4ImvTkuuyKOJd6wUdS23/s400/fractured+bubble+side+by+side.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 520px; height: 216px;" /></a><br /><br />The following photos from the event are courtesy of Benjamin Norman for the New York Times, who published <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/nyregion/26critic.html">this article</a> on the event:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJY64K5vNehCbH8IEwAY-5KKu5lzU6oKVu32e6tW90eRNRyF8SIJ9uEA4n-zSHAUrJoTICAisqtraTBugi4WIG-sbnkmE2bNTUSCjWXY15jbhwiHFOokK9WttQ1mpNIJ7zMEA__U8HbKL-/s1600/benjamin+norman+for+NY+times.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521336102280595794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJY64K5vNehCbH8IEwAY-5KKu5lzU6oKVu32e6tW90eRNRyF8SIJ9uEA4n-zSHAUrJoTICAisqtraTBugi4WIG-sbnkmE2bNTUSCjWXY15jbhwiHFOokK9WttQ1mpNIJ7zMEA__U8HbKL-/s400/benjamin+norman+for+NY+times.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 289px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: a panoramic view of the event</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONlaG5n4LSHjcpVqvmDViMfelOV0TGsOwThxlXN9R7UUNN-sc3AABDDaS2MnZlUm2Eyl-dsPAKEa5DUa9Hj6pFGjh9DoAps0kqD8GY7H_Pow4CEooDa1R8pMdf1CBFATfUL7FQO0Ft0uq/s1600/jp-CRITIC-1-popup.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521335986584957538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONlaG5n4LSHjcpVqvmDViMfelOV0TGsOwThxlXN9R7UUNN-sc3AABDDaS2MnZlUm2Eyl-dsPAKEa5DUa9Hj6pFGjh9DoAps0kqD8GY7H_Pow4CEooDa1R8pMdf1CBFATfUL7FQO0Ft0uq/s400/jp-CRITIC-1-popup.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 351px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: peeking inside the Shim Sukkah</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAK5woOJWbU0JNMlaYBmHnBXnNyGvSByO7dy9J-4v34ZK5bou1BOShO1T7xf5doS3Zbh9ecSOCspVwg7Hz6bwBb78-TN0E9EEF_KdNshXzk2pCzyvxL_27CrUdusSLBVouKq7rSs6uZwVt/s1600/jp-CRITIC-4-popup.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521335893270157138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAK5woOJWbU0JNMlaYBmHnBXnNyGvSByO7dy9J-4v34ZK5bou1BOShO1T7xf5doS3Zbh9ecSOCspVwg7Hz6bwBb78-TN0E9EEF_KdNshXzk2pCzyvxL_27CrUdusSLBVouKq7rSs6uZwVt/s400/jp-CRITIC-4-popup.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 349px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: the Blo Puff sukkah, a far cry from the original rendering</span></span><br /><br />The process and results of the competition, along with construction documentation and critical essays, will be published in the forthcoming book "Sukkah City: Radically Temporary Architecture for the Next Three Thousand Years."<br /><br />The jury consisted of these impressive designers, illustrators, architects and writers:<br />* Michael Arad<br />* Ron Arad<br />* Rick Bell<br />* Allan Chochinov<br />* Matias Corea<br />* Paul Goldberger<br />* Steven Heller<br />* Natalie Jeremijenko<br />* Maira Kalman<br />* Geoff Manaugh<br />* Thom Mayne<br />* Thomas de Monchaux<br />* Ada Tolla<br />* Adam Yarinsky<br /><br />Next year, Sukkah City will expand from New York City to cities all around the world. If your community would like to be part of Sukkah City 2011, please contact them at<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="mailto:sukkahcity@gmail.com">sukkahcity@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br />To learn who was behind this, the sponsors and more, visit <a href="http://sukkahcity.com/">Sukkah City.</a>

Sukkah City: 12 Radically Re-Imagined Traditional Jewish Shelters For Sukkot.

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Modern Treehouse is 1 of 5 Finalists For House Of The Year. Voting Ends Today!

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jxVHyrc9SZfCX05iP4ewnMMAdnylfLMj9ry8SoRgh5o83LuNZzDV2oR09xtP4V-Nh3lGMVMADNlqkygxtCBU7Wul5ThER4HMeTtF45CNm7wGlxdcJyRN1igEh_4QPhrsreFf4zALIdU/s1600-h/Picture-39.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443418587480610002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9jxVHyrc9SZfCX05iP4ewnMMAdnylfLMj9ry8SoRgh5o83LuNZzDV2oR09xtP4V-Nh3lGMVMADNlqkygxtCBU7Wul5ThER4HMeTtF45CNm7wGlxdcJyRN1igEh_4QPhrsreFf4zALIdU/s400/Picture-39.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 460px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.rockefeller-pa.com/">Rockefeller Partners Associates</a>' stunning Mandeville Canyon Treehouse is presently up, along with four other modern homes, for <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/building-of-the-year/2009/vote/category/Houses#start">Arch Daily's Building of The Year</a> . Voting ends today, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">all the nominees are shown here</span> later in this post.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYt69LMSfX40j6KjKxw2NnRipbXgrO_ksttCmRzZxFunJaVmE0mRbU0koJ1PPbB22Gij8Q62inffwpDoGXLi_7WS3xTXmgtKEsE2fFtIdOZMwEmzZzV2PP2ImZ11VIiKuUxM4oRwi_ZNE/s1600-h/Five-Finalists.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443449414012613938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYt69LMSfX40j6KjKxw2NnRipbXgrO_ksttCmRzZxFunJaVmE0mRbU0koJ1PPbB22Gij8Q62inffwpDoGXLi_7WS3xTXmgtKEsE2fFtIdOZMwEmzZzV2PP2ImZ11VIiKuUxM4oRwi_ZNE/s400/Five-Finalists.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 537px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Treehouse home,</span> on Banyon Drive in Los Angeles, is perched upon steel pylons that are naturally integrated into the surrounding trees. With a butterfly roof, the 16 square meter home is perched upon an eastern facing ridge, giving it a wonderful view of downtown Los Angeles.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3tSZSyTwWcKDMiBmKO1A-TDLf_ivLIPJKwx17W4zUZFBhG4-d5RDoQ04ctG8P39mDxGow5wHMCWBMG8b6wsMD1iilHDOXfQ0r37_W2uqK8qCi1xp1hjaikNfasovnu5wabSdZACBtwQ/s1600-h/Picture-43.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443419518343394626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3tSZSyTwWcKDMiBmKO1A-TDLf_ivLIPJKwx17W4zUZFBhG4-d5RDoQ04ctG8P39mDxGow5wHMCWBMG8b6wsMD1iilHDOXfQ0r37_W2uqK8qCi1xp1hjaikNfasovnu5wabSdZACBtwQ/s400/Picture-43.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 357px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfqtuuS-PghfDkYSkP1uniQqCUeexnD4aY62FsH2HuFA2R_tBRRi6Dmq1qcAZ84AfbhL9q-bF-fNgkU-sMnLcqtAC99kUaOxKXHGDD1wHyqQBrGtWLK_1hHcmPqbH3WtCmwItNSSXWs0/s1600-h/Picture-47.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443419429148836610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfqtuuS-PghfDkYSkP1uniQqCUeexnD4aY62FsH2HuFA2R_tBRRi6Dmq1qcAZ84AfbhL9q-bF-fNgkU-sMnLcqtAC99kUaOxKXHGDD1wHyqQBrGtWLK_1hHcmPqbH3WtCmwItNSSXWs0/s400/Picture-47.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 526px; height: 382px;" /></a><br /><br />The interior floors and walls are made of walnut wood and the exterior is high grade cedar. Designed for a nature loving artist, it serves as both as a studio and as guest accommodations. The tree house is completely self-sufficient with a water closet, fireplace, refrigerator, daybed, and television. Outside, a quick walk down the stairs leads to a protected and private outdoor shower.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rockefeller-pa.com/">Rockefeller Partners Associates (RPA)</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.ericstaudenmaier.com/" style="font-style: italic;">all photos are courtesy of Eric Staudenmaier</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> for RPA</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Other Four Nominees</span></span><br />Also nominated for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arch Daily's Building Of The Year</span> are some of my other favorites:<br /><br /><a href="http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009/03/anton-garcia-abrils-hemeroscopium-house.html" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443424913391803586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFp0M7XVIKnM_8ByTIaMk1spHgwVycPBOyGlg2ArhQ3I4DderbGaNFuizs8bAwahaZByCd8k6ikGlNTa7mVqnbRZCSOLtDtkQcOdq0-AnDs-JmZQsfYlggcMlg1QATEbscEI6MPX8onXc/s400/hemeroscopium_cover.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009/03/anton-garcia-abrils-hemeroscopium-house.html">the Hemeroscopium house</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sousasantos.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443427400298458802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jLTqLnHeiw90LHfVRKfmL7GK5gPVEiDYrYjKU1a_wrQEDIsaPSTej0LHdX4mmz9Ut6Z7WuZw37ko7ITDThsfGW07ejce7BNX1vLBfj2ZS11e_jsrYYsKXcpFsvd2Kb-V5v4by3VkyYw/s400/Picture+53.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" /></a><a href="http://www.sousasantos.com/"><br />The Casa Y House by Sousa Santos Architects</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nrja.lv/index.php?id=28" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443427094891910786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaALAvwG8DJmEbdXOlGEZiPW8mr223Ofst4ZcIk2LmPfbfLm5bBGQTslJdk41BqXkLurPnc7OS-GvUkXCYEe2u8JLpoMskjWSDHCv26CRoTsdXGl0AhJZ0FXwbK45v-pegT2V3cNHUEc/s400/House+oh+drupas+thumb2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.nrja.lv/">The House Of Ruins by NRJA</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.villavals.ch/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443428716080753010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg73HXNyZwich4CCYQmioejOCL7Ct6UV6qh6HokGyYCb06C5fdMx0AY57ycRxAuUdiv8cmEy4NAfyDZZBsqTNcRPk88ZAiTEbhhiNU3rzAWdsePw1mFEAbEGEBEH77OCInV5Fscgw1clvs/s400/Picture+55.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.villavals.ch/">The Villa Vals Underground home</a> (which I'd actually written a huge post on but then it appeared on so many sites and blogs, I refrained from publishing it)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The voting has now closed. The winner was:</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLaA1sfaSv4xMxI95U5o5Dt4zBYtVd-IkqQu4fr3k-SvDg2DNsyjpZvNs-5pp0sVKlDoWBu9SCb2BcumthZPavk5SaesCyjx0eF5UvkWKjL-awtzrF01ePmMr8I_HHrNdWZw-VqFwd6tA/s1600-h/Picture+7.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444897719460913122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLaA1sfaSv4xMxI95U5o5Dt4zBYtVd-IkqQu4fr3k-SvDg2DNsyjpZvNs-5pp0sVKlDoWBu9SCb2BcumthZPavk5SaesCyjx0eF5UvkWKjL-awtzrF01ePmMr8I_HHrNdWZw-VqFwd6tA/s400/Picture+7.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 412px;" /></a><br />read about the <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/14450/house-of-ruins-drupas-nrja/">House of Ruins project here.</a><br /><a href="http://www.archdaily.com/building-of-the-year/2009/vote/category/Houses#start" style="font-weight: bold;"></a><br><br>

Modern Treehouse is 1 of 5 Finalists For House Of The Year. Voting Ends Today!

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