Transfer Global Architecture Platform features the Tanderrum Bridge by John Wardle Architects and NADAAA in collaboration with Oculus.
Video by Coco and Maximilian. Read more HERE.
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On the NECESSITY of Messy Research
Posted on July 29th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: Academic
The second volume of The Changing Shape of Architecture continues to explore research in architectural practice and its transformational impact through a series of writings. In his essay, Brandon Clifford writes “on the necessity of messy research,” as demonstrated through several of Nader Tehrani’s works.
“When analyzed through a microscope, creative research appears schizophrenic. One project might develop a brilliant innovation, only to be contradicted in the next. If one is looking for a linear narrative in a body of work, they will likely look past these movements of complexity and contradiction. But, in order to look beyond the superficial answers and dig into the questions that drive these individuals, one must embrace and engage these moments of messy contradiction directly.
Tehrani is an ideal candidate for this form of perversion analysis because his work is geometrically rigorous and materially disciplined, and yet it has a sense of humor. It contains all the hallmarks of world class research within each case study, but it is littered with landmines of contradiction.”
Read the entire essay HERE and purchase the volume HERE.
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PEAKS AND GABLES
Posted on July 19th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press
Matthew Marrani describes in the Architect’s Newspaper how the Daniels Building uses modern material systems to reference the language of the Gothic heritage Knox College building.
Read more HERE.
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ADAMS WINS SARANY DESIGN AWARD OF HONOR
Posted on July 17th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, Awards
The Adams Street Branch Library has won a Design Award of Honor in the Unbuilt and Theoretical Projects category. Find it in the SARANY 2019 Journal HERE!
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ARTHUR SPEAKING AT PERSPECTIVE USA SYMPOSIUM
Posted on July 16th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: Lectures
This Thursday, July 18th, Arthur will speak on the material and fabrication methodologies of the new RISD residence hall at the sixth annual Perspective USA forum, hosted in New York by international magazine THE PLAN. Find more information about the program HERE, and register HERE.
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DANIELS IN BAUNETZ
Posted on July 15th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press
The Daniels Building was featured in German online publication Baunetz.
Read HERE.
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ADAMS STREET BRANCH LIBRARY BREAKS GROUND
Posted on July 11th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, construction
On July 10th the Adams Street Branch Library in Dorchester officially broke ground! Mayor Martin J. Walsh, along with the City’s Chief of Operations Patrick Brophy, Boston Public Library president David Leonard, and members of the community, including the Friends of the Adams Street Branch Library, gathered to celebrate the start of construction.
Mayor Walsh spoke to the undiminished importance of libraries in serving all members of the community and called the planned renovation “truly a library of the twenty-first century.”
NADAAA’s proposal for the Adams Street Branch Library renovation.
Boston Public Library President David Leonard commemorates the occasion.
Key team members, from left to right: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BPL Major Projects Coordinator Lissa Schwab, NADAAA Project Architect Amin Tadj, BPL Major Projects Program Manager Alison Ford, PFD Project Manager Jim McGaffigan, NADAAA Project Manager Michael Schanbacher, PFD Assistant Director Tom Leahy, PFD Assistant Director for Design Paul Donnelly, and Mayor’s Office Chief of Operations Pat Brophy.
Pint-sized library-goers take part in the ground-breaking.
Read more about the renovation and Mayor Walsh’s plan to improve the Boston branch libraries HERE.
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DANIELS IS ARCHITIZER A+ JURY WINNER
Posted on July 10th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards
The Daniels Building is the winner in the Architecture + Climate Change category and will be featured in Architizer’s upcoming Phaidon compendium, which will be available for pre-order this fall.
See all the winners HERE.
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JOIN US FOR THE ADAMS BRANCH GROUND-BREAKING
Posted on July 8th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, construction
The Adams Branch Library officially breaks ground on Wednesday, July 10th! NADAAA, alongside Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Public Facilities Department are excited to celebrate the start of construction on the new library in Dorchester.
Join us at 690 Adams Street in Dorchester at 5:30 pm for the ceremony, followed by a community celebration featuring the Choco-leles, who will lead a ukulele sing-along. Learn more about the the project development HERE.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD: “MIT’s Building Boom Brings New Slate of Major Architects to Campus”
Posted on July 5th, 2019 by Dara Lin
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Press
“On the Kendall Square side [of MIT], a pair of towers currently under construction on Main Street will form the new ‘eastern gateway’ to the campus. One [Site 4], by Boston-based firm NADAAA, in collaboration with Perkins+Will as architect of record, is a 28-story, 454-unit graduate-student residence with daring cantilevers and views of the Charles River. The structure will also include retail, offices, a childcare center, a 200-seat forum for public events, and the new MIT admissions office.”
“[MIT’s current developments] are more contextual, more aligned to the institute’s goal of melding with its Cambridge surroundings, in an effort to promote healthier, more dynamic interaction between the institute and its neighbors.”
Site 4 construction will be completed in summer 2020! Read more HERE.
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