MIT Site 4 has won the Jury Award for Best Large Mixed-Use Project and received a Special Mention in Urban Transformation. Big thanks and congrats to this project team!
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MIT Site 4 Receives two Architizer A+ Awards
Posted on June 16th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Awards
MIT Site 4 wins Cambridge Preservation Award
Posted on May 26th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Awards
MIT has been honored this evening by the Cambridge Historical Commission with four 2022 Preservation Awards including for Site 4’s historic base buildings formerly known as E38 and E39 (264 & 292 Main Street).
See all the award winners HERE.
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Vote for Villa Varoise!
Posted on May 20th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Villa Varoise, Awards
Villa Varoise has been selected as one of the best new residences in France by Prix Archinovo. Prix Archinovo is the first architecture prize dedicated to the contemporary house in France. Public voting is now open, check it out and vote HERE!
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Vote for MIT!
Posted on May 17th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Awards
MIT Site 4 is a Finalist in the 2022 Architizer A+ Awards in the Large Mixed-use category!
Please take a minute to Vote for Site 4!
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MIT wins an AIANY Honor Award
Posted on May 5th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, _MIT Site 4, Awards
As well, the Adams Street Branch Library wins a 2022 AIANY Merit Award! Many thanks to our wonderful collaborators on both projects for making this possible!
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Metropolis Viewpoints: The Met ANEC Galleries
Posted on May 2nd, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _The Met, Press
Mathias Agbo Jr. recently interviewed Nader Tehrani and Moody Nolan’s Darius Somers on our collaboration for the new ANEC Galleries for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“For us at NADAAA, this is a new type of project entirely, and thus, it offers opportunities many other projects cannot… This has been an opportunity to put aside our authorship and look at the collection itself as the basis of inspiration: to build the project from the artifacts, and their relationship to their audiences.”
Read on HERE.
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Vote for MIT Site 4!
Posted on May 2nd, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Awards
MIT Site 4 is short-listed for a 2022 AZ Award for best Multi-Unit Residential project. Public voting is open for the next week, please vote for Site 4 HERE!
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MIT Site 4: “The Elegant Balance of Form and Technology”
Posted on March 14th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, Press
“The tower’s distinctive appearance stems from a brilliant combination of technical know-how to meet the structural requirements and ingenious artistic flair.” Read more from Luca Maria Francesco Fabris (including his comparison of Site 4 to a mochaccino!) in the current issue of The Plan HERE.
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Architectural Record: Adams Street Branch Library
Posted on March 7th, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Adams Branch Library, Press
Mark Lamster writes for Architectural Record: ‘The new Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library, which opened last summer in the working-class municipality of Dorchester, is pleasing (if a bit of an odd duck), a work of inventive geometries that fits neatly into its low-rise context. The library’s quirky form was the product of a lengthy community-design process, one that forced the architects, Boston-based NADAAA, to rethink its original proposal for the building. The stumbling block was a large oak tree at the north end of the site, which runs along Adams Street, Dorchester’s primary commercial strip. The Boston Public Library wanted it removed, to create a tabula rasa for the new building, and the architects followed that directive. The community, however, desired the tree to stay put, and made that clear in no uncertain terms. In turn, NADAAA founding principal, Nader Tehrani, embraced this “productive friction,” as he calls it, redrawing the plan with the tree as a focal point.’
Read on HERE.
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‘My House is Better than Your House’ is out!
Posted on March 3rd, 2022 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Villa Varoise, Press, Things We Like
NADAAA is happy to announce that ‘My House is Better than Your House’ has been released by ORO Editions. A special thanks goes to all who helped make this book happen!
‘The house is commonly used as a vehicle to get at larger architectural debates. Such is the case in this book, with a dialogue between Nader Tehrani and Preston Scott Cohen whose collaboration in academia has often resulted in two very different approaches to pedagogy. In this discussion, Tehrani draws from central themes within Cohen’s pedagogy to design a house as a response to the preoccupations that drive many of these debates. Adopting Villa Varoise as the main protagonist, the book draws on many architectures to situate the predicaments behind geometry, typology, and the architectural anomaly, among other things, as productive instruments for a broader cultural discussion on architecture.’
Purchase your copy HERE. For a limited time, the book is available at 20% off HERE.
Read Stella Betts’s book review HERE.
And watch the original ‘My House is Better than Your House’ talk between Preston Scott Cohen and Nader Tehrani HERE.
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