Join NADAAA and the Boston Society for Architecture Cultural Facilities Network on October 11 at 5:30 pm for a tour of the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library. During the 60-minute tour and presentation, participants will take a behind-the-scenes look at the community’s influence on the building’s design and explore key sustainable details. This event will include a Q&A session at the end with Nader Tehrani.
The Adams Street Branch Library will be winning both a Boston Society for Architecture Honor Award for Design Excellence and an Interior Architecture Award at the 2022 BSA Awards Gala. As well, the full RISD Quad Block project will be winning a Campus and Urban Planning Award. Join us on January 18th at the Gala at Artists for Humanity, register HERE!
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The character of this project derives much more directly from its social and cultural context than most of our other projects. The nod to the vernacular serves as a foil for anamorphic moments where the traditional is cast in a new light.
Architizer’s editors ask Nader about the biggest challenges of the Adams Library project, lessons learned, and his favorite project details. Read on HERE.
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The Adams Street Branch Library is a finalist in the Cultural Projects category. Winners will be announced Thursday, November 17 at the closing ceremony, to be held at 6 p.m. at the Fondazione Riccardo Catella in Milan, Italy. See the other shortlisted cultural projects HERE.
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Both the Adams Street Branch Library and MIT Site 4 are nominated for the 2022 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).
“The works MCHAP celebrates inspire, educate, and challenge their users, the international design community, and the wider public. With sensitivity and intelligence, these projects achieve a formal, material, social, and environmental synergy. They realize opportunities for architecture— understood through both what architecture is, as a physical structure, and what it does, in the experiences and connections it creates.”
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!
From top: NADAAA’s Arthur Chang | Maxine Griffith, recipient of the Champion of Architecture Medal | 2022 AIA New York President, Andrea Lamberti, AIA with Arthur Chang. All Photos by Samuel Lahoz Photography
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.’
