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edited by Sheila Kim -- Interior Design, 6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

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Back to the Beach

For the fifth summer running, New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Museum of Modern Art, Queens, have selected an emerging designer to overhaul P.S.1's courtyard as part of the Young Architects Program. The 2004 winner, nArchitects, has created a topography of fresh-cut bamboo with spaces for lounging and wading. Opening June 27. . .

Congrats to Cranbrook

Cranbrook Academy of Art ceramics MFA Heather Mae Erickson won the annual Horizon Awards for student artists, while honorable mention went to Vivian Beer—also at Cranbrook—for her steel Filled With Birds and Beasts. New York's Museum of Arts & Design and Hunter Douglas Window Fashions announced the winners on June 4. . .

Fighting Sprawl

University of Illinois at Chicago graduate student Grant Gibson has won the Art Institute of Chicago architecture department's annual Schiff Foundation Fellowship, which this year amounted to a $25,000 award. Gibson's entry, Remediation of the American Dream, proposed a visionary alternative to suburban sprawl—in the form of "energy farms" on open land. . .

A Perfect Future

What happens when an edgy New York home-furnishings store asks design-show attendees to vote on their favorite furniture and objects? You get the Future Perfect 2004 Brooklyn Designs People's Choice Awards. And you get three winners: Bart Bettencourt's bamboo dining set, Lorena Barrezueta's ceramic take-out dishware, and Aviva Stanoff's silk-covered pillows. . .

See the Light

Proof that energy-efficient fixtures needn't look dull, the winners of the Lighting for Tomorrow competition burned bright. They included the Salem chandelier by Stephen Blackman, the Soli sconce by Meg Hetfield of Lightolier, and Soren Momsen's BetweeN2ShapeS, an elliptical porcelain pendant being produced by Royal Scandinavia. . .