White House Redux
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 October 2008. All three winners will be flown to New York to collect their prizes at the opening party. This site documents the results and the ongoing feedback and activities around this competition.
- Competition Closed -
Awarded 1st Prize By Popular Vote: Project 655
Jorge Rocha Antunes
27762 Popular Votes
Bio L o g i c a l Protective living organism artificially produced. Despite of its initial small size, the growth and properties are defined on its previously manipulated genetic code (DNA)....
Awarded 1st Prize By Jury: Project 834
J.P. Maruszczak, Ryan Manning (assistant), Roger Connah
The 12 scripts that make up the Revenge of the Lawn are like snapshots in an Architectural Album - vivid, delightfully informal, they cast a new dream light on the un-captured moments of experience, between the political and the personal. In these fantasies and...
Awarded 2nd Prize By Jury: Project 1485
David Iseri, Jefferson Frost, Justin Kruse, Laura Sperry
12 Cautionary Tales for a New World Order is an homage to the architecture firm Superstudio. Within the book are 12 different visions of what the White House could be, given a multitude of cultural / economic / environmental shifts. We feel the format is an...
Awarded 3rd Prize By Jury (Tie): Project 1369
Wayne Congar, Arrielle Assouline-Lichten
Since 1792 increased levels of opacity have been grafted onto the basic palatial template of James Hoban's design, reflecting the public's decreasing access to an increasingly complex U.S. government. Despite its relatively unchanged formal reading from...
Awarded 3rd Prize By Jury (Tie): Project 198
Grant Gibson, Chris-AnnMarie Spencer
In a three-party democracy, the singularity of power & accountability that comes with the obligations of the Executive Branch is a symbolic condition. The last thing, its architecture should be iconic. Rather, a new White House should seek to convert and/or subvert, this...
Honorable Mention: Project 892
Pieterjan Ginckels, Julian Friedauer
Welcome to WHITE HOUSE PARADISE. WHITE HOUSE PARADISE is an experience machine indulged in rhetorics. WHITE HOUSE PARADISE is an architectural theme park: a scenography of highly detailed images active as a memo-machine. The experience starts...
* On November 3rd at 12:00 a.m. we will close the polls and announce the popular vote winner.
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White House Redux - The Book
With almost 500 submissions from 42 countries around the world, White House Redux—a competition launched by Storefront for Art and Architecture and Control Group last January—became one of the most talked-about architecture competitions in 2008.
Published to coincide with the opening of an exhibition of the competition's results at Storefront for Art and Architecture, White House Redux - The Book contains a compendium of documentation related to the competition and an overview of the results. It includes essays by Joseph Grima (Director of Storefront) and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), a history of the existing White House and 123 selected projects as well as the four winning submissions. A jury assessed the submissions in the spectacular setting of the 45th floor of the World Trade Center Tower 7, a process documented in the book's 30-page photoessay by Marty Hyers.
White House Redux is available in a limited edition of 500 copies.
734 pages, color and black & white (7.8" x10.5")
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See the White House Redux Jury in World Trade Center 7
Video: Jury meeting in WTC 7Poll: New Yorkers share their ideas for a new White House
