Los Angeles architects Ball-Nogues have won the Young Architects Program 2007 competition to design a temporary open-air installation at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York.

Story by Lucy James: Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues’ winning design, called Liquid Sky, features a flexible roof made from tinted Mylar, which projects psychedelic, floral patterns down into the courtyard below.

The installation will open at the outdoor courtyard at P.S.1 on June 21.

The annual Young Architects Program competition – now in its eighth year – is run by the Museum of Modern Art and its Queens outpost P.S.1, and invites young architects to design an installation with a budget of $70 000.

The four other finalists of the competition were: Aurum by Gage/Clemenceau Architects of New York (above); Reef by IwamotoScott of San Francisco (below); Knot Garden by Ruy Klein of New York; and Prehistoric Future by Mos of Brooklyn.

Below: Knot Garden by Ruy Klein of New York

Below: Prehistoric Future by Mos of Brooklyn