The recently completed UN-L College of Architecture is featured on World-Architects.com as the building of the week. A collaboration with Tom Trenolone and his team at HDR, the building has received an array of awards including including the Chicago Atheneum Award this year. More info HERE.
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“At many institutions, special exhibitions represent the most current thinking about art and curation,” says Hollein, “while collections are often decades out of date.” The Met, says Hollein, ” is committed to displaying its collections in a contemporary way. We take seriously not just how we collect, but how we display. What are the narratives, the stories we tell? “
“For the Ancient Near East and Cypriot Art galleries on the second floor of the museum, NADAAA is exploring ways to bring the two collections — which had previously been separated — into dialogue, both spatially and curatorially. They are working with the notion of a torus or donut-shaped path flowing from one area to another and are employing a monumental ramp to stitch together the two collections and turn an ADA problem into a design feature. Linking to nearby galleries, such as those for Asian art on the north side of the Great Hall and Islamic art and European paintings to the south, the $40 million project will present a transcultural narrative. “We’re making connections across time, space, and culture that had once been obscured,” says Tehrani. A curving, ribbonlike ceiling will be suspended from above to define circulation and hide mechanical equipment, lighting, sprinklers, and other service systems. Tehrani is treating floors as “carpets” with sometimes richly hued materials such as terrazzo to evoke the colors that once adorned some of the sculptures and reliefs in the collection.” We want to create an immersive experience and establish a relationship between the human body and the individual artifacts on display,” says Tehrani.”
-Clifford A. Pearson, Architectural Record
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Josephine Minutillo writes on NADAAA and HDR’s new addition to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture.
She writes: “What’s striking at UNL is the multidirectional, splayed running bond arrangement of the panels on the upper three levels. The angles 12-by-17-foot Kalwall sections open up yp 2-foot-wide, full-height windows allowing east-facing views from the studios to the museum, and west where throngs of Cornhusker fans pour in along the stadium promenade on game day. At the ground level, which includes an open fabrication court behind hefty, exposed-wood columns and diagonal bracing, a black protruding element — matching the dark upper floors — offers a front entrance along that north elevation, something the earlier building lacked.”
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Nader speaks to Sam Cochran on NADAAA’s ongoing renovations at the Met during a behind-the-scenes tour: “How can connections be made that overcome archeological penchants for divisions?” So asks Nader Tehrani, whose Boston-based firm was selected to renovate the 15,000 square-foot galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art, slated to open in 2026. His design does just that, forging meaningful links among the cultures of this vast region. What had been a daisy chain of discrete rooms will be a continuous loop, with a toroid plan that eliminates walls and, with the addition of a ramp, improves accessibility. “The 19th century wanted to taxonomize everything,” Tehrani reflects. “History is never closed.” Vaulting, at turns rippling and broadly arching, will hint at chronological breaks and unify themes while nodding to ancient building technologies. Materials, too, break from neutral modernist tropes, with allusions to the lapis lazuli and bronze of artifacts. And four nonhierarchical entrances will extend dialogues to periods and places beyond the immediate galleries. “there are fluid connections from one space and one history to another.”
-Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest
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Later this month NADAAA and three other design teams will present proposals for a memorial to fallen journalists and the commemoration of a free press.
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Leopoldo Villardi studies the dual-purpose gateway/subway headhouse at Kendall/MIT for Record’s Transportation Issue.
‘A sleek, streamlined canopy, supported by a field of 26-foot-tall columns, hovers over the three prismatic kiosks to unify the composition. It is a fitting urban baldacchino for straphangers and students alike.’
‘It was never meant to be a gem, says Tehrani, but, coming near the conclusion of a campus expansion, “it is like the period at the end of a sentence”—one that has as much to say about urban planning as it does about local placemaking.’
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Record’s Matt Hickman takes a look at NADAAA and HDR’s collaboration in mass timber at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture as part of their current special issue. Check out the full digital version HERE.
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Nader reviews Carla Ferrer, Thomas Hildebrand, and Celina Marinez-Cañavate’s new book for Architectural Record. The book explores forest management and the “illusion of infinite bounty”, the “present architectural arms race to build enlightened wood structures”, and the future of timber.
“Composed of three segments, its various writers bring perspectives ranging in disciplines to allow for a broader cultural reading than any conventional book on wood technologies. Acknowledging the already present and looming crisis of climate change as a central protagonist, the book also positions the balance of merits and liabilities in developing an attitude toward the production of wood, allowing the readers to better understand how a sustainable production of wood is a plan that cannot occur as a single decision but as something that requires ongoing efforts over years, administrations, nations, and cultures.”
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“Arts and cultural institutions are living sites of memory. They create narratives of the past informed by the present. The architect’s ability to mediate between the two is crucial.” -AN’s Malika Leiper writes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural and curatorial undertakings.
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