MoMA PS1 and Times Square Valentine Winners Announced

The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 have announced that CODA (Caroline O'Donnell, Ithaca, New York) is the winner of the 14th Young Architects Program. Party Wall was chosen "because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources—the waste products of skateboard-making—to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1's [Long Island City] courtyard," according to Pedro Gadanho, MoMA curator and jury member. The skateboard residue will be mounted on a large armature for shading and spraying (with mists of water) the throngs of Warm Up revelers in the summer.

For their fifth annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design, the Times Square Alliance—working with Design Trust for Public Space—has selected Brooklyn's Situ Studio as the winner with their Heartwalk design. Per a statement, "Situ Studio took inspiration from the collective experience of Hurricane Sandy and the love that binds people together during trying times." The aptly named scheme reuses salvaged boardwalk from Long Beach, New York, and Sea Girt and Atlantic City, New Jersey, from Sandy's aftermath. Heartwalk will be unveiled on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, and remain on view until March 8, 2013.