Can plumbing be sexy? Architect Andrés Jaque, a 2014 Design Vanguard winner, proposes that it can indeed with COSMO, a gargantuan water-purifying pavilion. On February 5, the Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary-art space MoMA PS1 announced Jaque’s design as winner of its annual Young Architects Program and as the centerpiece of its outdoor music series in the courtyard of the Long Island City building. The other finalists for the program were Erin Besler, Bittertang, Brillhart Architecture, and Studio Benjamin Dillenburger.
Jaque’s project, which will be completed in June, aims to get the public thinking about the sustainability of water use—the UN estimates that in the next decade, two-thirds of the world’s population will lack sufficient access to fresh water—but to have fun doing it.
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