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The original White House is the direct outcome of a competition won by James Hoban in 1792. As it stands today (after people fiddled around with it over the past 200 some years), it's got 6 stories, 55,000 square feet of floor space, 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 412 doors, 147 windows, twenty-eight fireplaces, eight staircases, three elevators, five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a bowling alley, a movie theater, a jogging track, a swimming pool, and a putting green.

Storefront for Architecture and Control Room are challenging creative people all over the world to re-imagine the White House as if the same competition were to be held in 2008. They probably won't knock down the existing one to realize a new vision, but there's $9,500 in cash prizes and the best entries will be exhibited at the Storefront for Architecture gallery and published in Surface magazine. Not too shabby.

Home of the world's most powerful individual. Universally recognized symbol of political authority. One of America's greatest tourist attractions. Nerve-center of the world's most complex communications system. The ultimate architectural embodiment of power.

...What would a White House designed in 2008, year of election of the 44th President of the United States, look like?

On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America Storefront for Art and Architecture, in association with Control Group, challenges you to design a new residence for the world's most powerful individual.

White House Redux
Deadline : April 20, 2008
($20 registration fee)