Park Slope synagogue gets a designer Sukkah

Rendering by Babak Bryan and Henry Grosman

Who said the starctecture trend was over?

As of yesterday, Park Slope's Beth Elohim has a fancy new designer sukkah.

When Sukkot rolls around, most synagogues put up a sukkah, a make-shift praying shelter covered in twigs  much like the ones used by Israelites during their 40-year exile. Not the Beth Elohim synagogue.

According to Brooklyn Daily,

The Brooklyn-based firm — which won a citywide sukkah-building contest last year — will build the temporary structure in front of the synagogue’s adjacent community center at Eighth Avenue.

The design “combines art with function,” said Rabbi Andy Bachman. “We’re very excited about it.”

The 10-foot sukkah has curved, semi-transparent walls made of wooden blocks bolted to a steel frame and draped in Spanish moss.

When Curbed covered this story they brought up a good point. Isn't the sukkah-building contest suppose to be an annual event?