Daniels as Film Set

Posted on January 10th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Things We Like

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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Nader serves on ‘Home’ competition

Posted on January 9th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Things We Like

Nader recently served on the HOME competition jury by ‘arc out loud’. The competition invited designers to explore domestic architecture of the future. Designers were to consider the impacts of a growing global population, coastline challenges, urban center shifts, materiality advances, as well as the rise of co-housing, tiny homes, smart houses and marketplaces (such as Airbnb).

Winners have been announced HERE.

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Detail on Daniels

Posted on January 7th, 2020 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press

“NADAAA has created an intriguing combination of old and new, at the same time making the extension with its jagged exterior an interactive pedagogical tool for its users.” Read on HERE.

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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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