Sukkah City was an architectural design competition [1] and work of installation art planned in partnership with the Union Square Partnership for New York City 's Union Square Park in September 2010. A sukkah is a structure described in the Torah and used in celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.

Sep 9, 2010 · They have designed budget houses for hurricane victims, cabins made of paper tubes, refugee tents, tsunami shelters, mobile homes, habitable shipping containers, polyester yurts, and so on.

Aug 30, 2021 · Long part of a cultural tradition, sukkahs were reimagined as thought-provoking architectural pieces with the event Sukkah City. Organized in 2010 in New York City, Sukkah City featured works made out of a wide array of materials.

Sukkah City was a public art and architecture competition planned for New York City 's Union Square Park. The winning design was chosen as the City Sukkah, to stand, starting on September 22, 2010, for the requisite seven days of the harvest holiday.

Sep 17, 2010 · The shortlist of the Sukkah City Competition has just been announced, and in the next week, twelve structures will be built in Union Square Park in New York City, and subjected to a public vote.

Jul 11, 2013 · On September 19, 2010, 12 otherworldly structures appeared mysteriously overnight in Union Square, New York, comprising a mirage-like installation called Sukkah City. Each newly designed...

The 12 pieces were constructed in Union Square Park in New York City for a three-day celebration. The project each represented a symbolic reason the sukkah existed, including fragility, humility, and a connection to nature.

Featuring imaginative and expressive structures that highlight key social justice themes including housing insecurity, displacement, and a changing landscape, Sukkah City x DC asks the visitor to confront the impermanence of our lives and to experience what it would mean to live without a solid roof overhead.

Oct 21, 2011 · Representing the same type of shelters that housed the Jews who won freedom from Egypt in the time of Moses, a sukkah symbolizes the nomadic homes built in the desert as the Jews made their trek...

Oct 5, 2013 · Sukkah City, a documentary on the competition, follows a couple projects through their inspiration and construction. Read more about it here.