Echo Park firm lands N.Y. plum

The Museum of Modern Art in New York and P.S.1 Contemporary Art have named the Echo Park design firm of Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues winner of its annual Young Architects Program to design an installation for the courtyard of P.S.1.

Titled “Liquid Sky,” Ball and Nogues’ sculptural canopy will be on view in the P.S.1 courtyard in Long Island City, Queens, beginning June 21, the museums announced Friday. The work, which will serve as the venue for a music series held each summer in the outdoor space, is designed to immerse viewers in patterns of color created by sunlight filtering through Mylar petals resembling stained-glass flowers, the museums said.

In 2005, Ball-Nogues designed a flower-like installation for the forecourt at Materials & Applications in Silver Lake. That piece was made of more than 500 golden metallic petals.