The Daniels Building has won the SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions or Adaptive Reuse Honor Award. Congrats to our team! See this year’s winners in all categories HERE.
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Daniels wins 2019 SCUP Honor Award
Posted on May 10th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards
Daniels on Archdaily
Posted on May 8th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press
The Daniels Building is featured this week on Archdaily! Check it out HERE.
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TRANSFER Architecture Video Awards: Call for Entries
Posted on May 8th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
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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Oscar Ko on Tongxian
Posted on May 3rd, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
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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Diana Agrest Book Celebration Tonight
Posted on May 2nd, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: The Cooper Union
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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Nader moderating Japan Society talk by Toshiko Mori
Posted on April 29th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Events
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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Fleet Library in Monocle
Posted on April 24th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _RISD FLEET LIBRARY, Press
Daniels selected for AIA COTE Top 10 Award
Posted on April 22nd, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards
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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Tallest building in Cambridge (for now!)
Posted on April 12th, 2019 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _MIT Site 4, construction
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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