Villa Varoise won in the Residential Architecture Category and was named a Best of Best project in the annual Architecture Masterprize Awards. See the full list of winners HERE.
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The Melbourne School of Design and the Daniels Building are featured in Porcelanosa Lifestyle’s article on new educational architecture.
“La arquitectura académica necesita espacios específicos que inducen al estudio, a la concentración de la investigación, a intercambio de ideas y debates entre compañeros para generar un sentido crítico y reforzar el aprendizaje.”
Read on HERE.
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The Rock Creek House is featured this week on Archello. Check it out HERE.
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The City of Boston, through the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, is inviting artists to apply to create a permanent public artwork for the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library.
The City released the Call yesterday and there will be a Virtual Q+A on Wednesday, September 9th. The Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, September 16, 2020. To learn more, check out the Call to Artists HERE and more information can also be found HERE.
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Voting ends tomorrow in the 8th Annual Architizer A+ Popular Choice Awards. Help Villa Varoise and RISD North Hall win by clicking on the below links and placing your vote!
Villa Varoise for Architecture + Concrete
Villa Varoise for XL Private House
RISD North Hall for Mid-Rise Housing
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Paolo Bacilieri‘s take on NADAAA’s Rock Creek House — images 27 and 29 in Domus’s gallery of “comics that will change the way you look at architecture“
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Josephine Minutillo writes on NADAAA’s North Hall dormitory for the Rhode Island School of Design with a focus on how the project nestles into its unique site. “A structure that is at once overscaled and slight—its laminar sides and sharp edges accentuating thinness—NADAAA did a commendable job carving out of its massing as much volume as possible, with cornice lines, terraces, and material shifts that relate to the surrounding context. From some perspectives it is king of the hill, from others just part of the eclectic mix.”
Read on HERE.
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Rock Creek House and Tongxian are featured in Braun’s new book BRICKS – NOW & THEN by Chris van Uffelen. van Uffelen features projects both old and new to demonstrate “how the use and popularity of bricks has not diminished one bit over the millennia, and is even gaining popularity today. Copies of BRICKS – NOW & THEN are available HERE.
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The Rock Creek House is featured in ‘The Home Upgrade’
“Against a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings must continue to evolve along with us—and that takes a little imagination […] Historic conversions celebrate the unexpected relationship between old and new, and adaptive reuse projects reinvent the buildings around us. Exploring the most extraordinary transformations of recent years by leading studios, The Home Upgrade is an exhilarating look at the boundless possibilities of reimagining a home.”
See the full piece on Rock Creek House HERE. Books available HERE.
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Trekkers and Trekkies rejoice! Serving as a prequel to the forthcoming Star Trek: Picard series, CBS has released a six-minute teaser partially filmed in the NADAAA-designed Daniels Building! This mini-episode, ‘Children of Mars’, features two antagonistic young girls attending an academy set within the Daniels Building. The full six-minute teaser can be streamed HERE or on Crave TV HERE. Background info from Trek News HERE. More on the episode from UofT HERE.
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