Through September 2005, a canopy designed by Xefirotarch will be on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island, Queens, New York. P.S.1 sponsors an annual Young Architects Program, a competition for a courtyard canopy for their museum with a total budget of $60,000 USD. This year's Young Architects Program consisted of seventeen candidates (nominated by a group of experts, curators and editors), which are then reduced to a pool of five from where a winner is chosen.

This year's winner is nArchitects, a Los Angeles firm founded by Hernan Diaz Alonso, a thesis coordinator at Sci-Arc who previously worked for Enric Miralles and Eisenman Architects. His winning design is has been compared to a field of red dinosaur bones- an interesting piece that honestly photographs much better than it feels in person- in Queens it feels small and lost in the courtyard. As always, P.S.1 uses the canopy as a site for Warm Up (on Saturdays afternoons), an annual music festival featuring DJs, liquor, beach chairs and loud music under whatever canopy got built that year.

Previous winners of the Young Architects Program are:

1998 - Gelatin
1999 - Philip Johnson (ok, obviously not young, but it was a whole MoMA tie in thing)
2000 - SHoP / Sharpen Holden Pasquarelli
2001 - ROY
2002 - William E. Massie
2003 - Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT
2004 - nArchitects