Nader serves on A+U’s ‘Living in the Future’ Jury

Posted on January 6th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic

a+u has announced the winners of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2019 – Living in the Future.

“What will the future look like? How can architects design dwellings to meet evolving living patterns and the challenges of the future? These are the questions posted of the seventy-six candidates who submitted to this competition, and indeed, the submissions diverged in both focus and genre. The questions also prompted fundamental challenges to how architects think about the context of the house, whether in its autonomy or the context in which it is grounded, be it urban or rural. The question of the “future” also assured a fair sense of speculation, narrative, and projection, imagining not only spaces of a time and place yet to exist, but also the fiction that holds it together.”

Get this month’s copy to see all the winners HERE.

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North Hall in RISD xyz

Posted on January 3rd, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _RISD NORTH HALL, Press

“It is a distinct honor to design a building for an institution I hold so dear, but even more so since I have lived on the same campus myself.”

Read on HERE.

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THIS IS 2020

Posted on January 1st, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events

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Winning Formulas: Daniels in Special AIA COTE Top Ten issue

Posted on December 23rd, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards, Press

Last Spring the Daniels Building was selected as an AIA COTE Top Ten Award recipient. In an end-of-year reflection on AIA’s evolving measures of not only sustainability but on Design Excellence, ARCHITECT Magazine revisited the ten award-winning projects that “represent the pinnacle of green architecture”. On the Daniels Building Edward Keegan, AIA and Clay Risen write “From the beginning, [NADAAA and local architect Adamson Associates] saw the brief in three parts: make the building sustainable, make it a teaching tool for design students, and knit it back into the surrounding community. The overarching goal was to leverage the existing building’s resources wherever possible while minimizing the impact of new materials.”

Read the full piece on Daniels HERE. More on AIA’s evolving measures HERE.

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North Hall wins AIA Rhode Island Honor Award

Posted on December 12th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Awards

NADAAA is happy to share that the RISD North Hall project has won the 2019 AIA Rhode Island Honor Award. Jury comments can be found HERE and other winning projects can be found HERE.

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Villa Varoise wins Interior Design Best of Year Award!

Posted on December 9th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Villa Varoise, Awards

See all 2019 Best of Year winners HERE.

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Power Picket on Archello

Posted on December 5th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Power Picket, Press

NADAAA’s public urban art project in Austin can be seen on Archello.

“The NADAAA intervention on the periphery of the substation adopts the centrifugal pull of its edges to create out of the remaining liminal spaces some idea of the public realm. The precast Power Picket project is the defining liner of this fringe space, giving definition to what is ostensibly a ‘terrain vague’, curiously absorbed by the onslaught of commercial development.”

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Daniels in C3 404: Additions that add More than Space

Posted on November 21st, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press

The Daniels Building is featured in the current issue of Korean architecture magazine C3. The focus of the issue is on distinguished urban additions that give “its users and the public something more”.

“The [building] by NADAAA, which includes [historic] Knox College, can be observed from 360 degrees. Each angle gives the viewer an architectural history lesson. The best view of the Daniels Buiding is from the streetcar, which glides around the western and eastern halves of Spadina Crescent. Examples of all three disciplines taught at the school can be found on the site, which makes it a sample size of Toronto’s built environments, past, and present.[…]

“Each surface, space, texture, shape, and form found on the interior of the addition, as well as the architecture on the exterior, serves to inspire the next generation of designers. they are taught, study, and build in a building that is itself an example of what is possible. A building that encourages creativity, and internally strives to be a radical departure from generic academic spaces. These are the spaces that people go to architecture school to create, that are not construction cost induced replicas. The addition, along with Knox college, is a constant tutorial of great architecture.” – Phil Roberts

Read the full piece HERE. Order copies HERE.

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NADAAA holds a top 2019 ARCHITECT Magazine ranking

Posted on November 13th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Awards

NADAAA makes #8 in ARCHITECT Magazine’s annual design ranking! For the past seven years in a row NADAAA has ranked in the Top eleven design firms in Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Firms in the United States, ranking as #1 three years in a row. In those same seven years NADAAA has been ranked #1 or #2 among design firms in Boston. ARCHITECT Magazine is the official publication of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Thank you to our amazing clients who make our work possible!

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Nader named among most admired Architecture Educators

Posted on November 8th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, The Cooper Union

“Scholarly, intellectual, great teacher, thoughtful administrator, good person”

See Design Intelligence’s list of top architecture educators HERE!

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