The Daniels Building is featured this week on Archdaily! Check it out HERE.

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The Daniels Building is featured this week on Archdaily! Check it out HERE.

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Nader will serve on the 2019 TRANSFER Architecture Video Awards. The 2019 Call for Video submissions is now open with a deadline of July 1st! The award program is open to architects, artists, filmmakers, and photographers who have used video to “represent new means of knowledge and analysis of architecture”. Visit TRANFER for all the details.
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Vladimir Belogolovsky : And finally, is there one particular project built in China over the last decade or two that you particularly admire, either by Chinese or foreign architect?
Oscar Ko: I like a small brick building Tongxian Gatehouse, the artists-in-residence structure at the arts community outside of Beijing. It was designed by what used to be Boston-based Office dA and is now NADAAA led by Nader Tehrani and Katherine Faulkner. Everyone was talking about giant iconic projects for the Olympics at the time but to me it was this small building that stood out. I went to visit it and I really enjoyed its materiality, authenticity, and integrity.
Read Belogolovsky’s full interview of Ko HERE.
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Congratulations to Cooper Union Professor Diana Agrest on her new book ‘Architecture of Nature: Nature of Architecture’. The book is based on eight years of research at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. A celebration is being held this evening on the Third Floor of The Foundation Building.
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This Wednesday, May 1st, at 6:30pm at New York’s Japan Society Nader will moderate Toshiko Mori: Transforming Communities through Architecture. The talk is part of the Japan Society’s Japan in the Global 1960s series and will examine the phenomenon of the post-World War II Setouchi region of Japan which saw an artistic renaissance sparked by Kenzo Tange’s 1958 Kagawa Prefecture government office building (shown above). Mori will also discuss two of her works in villages in Senegal with ambitions to transform their communities. For more info on the talk and to purchase tickets click HERE.
photo above by John Barr
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On this Earth Day 2019, the AIA has announced the recipients of the 2019 AIA COTE Top 10 Awards which includes the Daniels Building. The COTE Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance.

The Daniels Building at the University of Toronto embodies a holistic approach to urban design and sustainability. As the new home for the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, its purpose is to engage students and the broader community in dialogue with the built environment. At the center of one of Toronto’s few circular parcels, the project anchors the southwest corner of the University and opens the circle to the public after years of inaccessibility. It restores the historic building while adding a new addition with integrated stormwater management, green roof, voided-slab floors, and ample daylight.

Read more on the sustainable and pedagogical aspects of the Daniels Building including the integration of community voices and needs, the ecological curriculum, water systems, energy and resources usage, and economy of means HERE.
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As of April 2nd, 2019 the MIT Site 4 project was officially the tallest building in Cambridge! Right now the building is at 299′, but will reach 330′ by the end of
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The Daniels Building is a recipient of the 2019 Education Facility Design Award for Design Excellence, sponsored by the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Architecture for Education. View all 2019 recipients HERE.
“These projects showcase innovation across the entire learning continuum, displaying how architects are creating cutting edge spaces that enhance modern pedagogy.”

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‘Manifest Pedagogies’, an exhibit of NADAAA’s three schools of architecture and design opened yesterday at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture. The exhibit also highlights the vision plan NADAAA has developed with the
On April 8th Nader will join a round-table discussion entitled ‘Pedagogy in Question’ with the SoA’s Allan Shulman, Carie Penabad, Joel Lamere, Charlotte von Moos
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