{"id":2502,"date":"2010-09-18T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2010-09-18T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T16:33:01","slug":"sukkah-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Sukkah City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sc1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sc1.jpg\" alt=\"sc1\" title=\"sc1\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will refrain from pimping it here too hard, being a member of the sponsoring organization, a friend of the triumvirate of visionaries who put it together, and a (limited) advisor on the proceedings (publishing division), but let me nonetheless urge you to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukkahcity.com\/\">SukkahCity<\/a>, both on the Web and in its physical manifestation in Union Square Park, starting Monday. The sukkah, a (green!) temporary structure erected to celebrate the Jewish harvest festival, is an ideal form for an experimental architectural competition. What with this crap economy, it also happens to be a good time for a competition, as evidenced by the more than 1,400 entries to this one. At a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architizer.com\/en_us\/blog\/dyn\/8066\/sukkah-city-preview\/\">preview<\/a> out in Gowanus eariler this week, I was especially impressed with the pneumatic &#8220;Bio Puff&#8221; from Brooklyn&#8217;s own Bittertang\u2014a throwback to what the late Marc Dessauce dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Inflatable-Moment-Pnuematics-Protest-68\/dp\/1568981767\">Inflatable Moment<\/a>. The rendering, above, is kind of somber, but the real thing is of clear plastic with a definite 60s\/70s vibe. Check &#8217;em all out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will refrain from pimping it here too hard, being a member of the sponsoring organization, a friend of the triumvirate of visionaries who put it together, and a (limited) advisor on the proceedings (publishing division), but let me nonetheless urge you to visit SukkahCity, both on the Web and in its physical manifestation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sukkah City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}