The Daniels Building at the University of Toronto has been named a 2018 Outstanding Building by the Mies Crown Americas Prize. See all this year’s outstanding projects HERE.
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Daniels named an Outstanding Building by MCHAP
Posted on March 7th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards
Rebecca Lo writes on Daniels for d+a
Posted on March 4th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press
“Where the old meets the new is where the Daniels Building is most exciting. Original Gothic details such as ornamental arched windows lend the library a cloister-like hush, while the stacks on a lower level adjacent in the extension are discreetly lit with fluorescents that surround each bookcase to give them an otherworldly glow.”
Read the full article HERE.
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Zhulang Huagai: A Figure for the Nantou Urban Village
Posted on March 2nd, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Academic, Installations + Exhibitions, Press, The Cooper Union
NADAAA recently collaborated with students of The Cooper Union to design and realize a pavilion in Nantou Urban Village as part of the Shenzhen Biennale. The result is a permanent structure that will continue to serve the neighborhood and is already being used for a weekend marketplace. For more see Archdaily’s post HERE.
photo courtesy of UABB
photo courtesy of the UABB
photo courtesy of Jeremy Son
Special thanks to Margaux Wheelock-Shew, Jeremy Son, Mitch Mackowiak, Yujun Yin, and the Thornton Tomasetti team.
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AD Immigrant Stories: Nader Tehrani
Posted on February 9th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
Writer Fred Bernstein is taking a weekly look at immigrant architects and checks in with Nader on his global beginnings.
“My background is a composite of many roots, languages, and affinities. Lacking a common ground, I have used architecture as a language from which to speak.”
For weekly immigrant stories from AD check HERE.
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Collaborating with Cooper
Posted on February 6th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions, The Cooper Union, Urban Design
NADAAA collaborated recently with two students from The Cooper Union to realize a new pavilion for the Shenzhen Biennale in the Nantou Urban Village of Shenzhen. The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper interviewed the students, Margaux Wheelock-Shew and Jeremy Son, on their experience of collaborating with a design office to complete a built project. Read the interview HERE.
The next big surprise: somebody over there decided it should be permanent, though it had originally been designed to be dismantled. So, the Chinese welded the joints and sank it into concrete. There is some irony to this because of all the designs the team came up with, the one they meant to be impermanent was the one with the scaffolding. “That thing is not going anywhere,” Margaux says. Tehrani added: “Moreover, it is an important recognition that such initiatives can be in service of a larger civic mission that contributes back to the community in which it is lodged.”
photo by Lea Bertucci, The Cooper Union
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Catenary Compression in ‘Building Giants’
Posted on January 26th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions, Press
Darwin’s Hill in the OALA’s ‘Ground’
Posted on January 26th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Press
“a new script for a forgotten piece of land, and an invitation—to students, teachers, and the public—to engage in a critical contemporary landscape discourse: How will we design the urban landscapes of the future?”
NADAAA partnered with landscape architects Public Work at One Spadina, part of the site includes Darwin’s Hill, a research tool used by students and faculty. Read more about how Darwin’s Hill will be used HERE. Check out this month’s full issue of Ground HERE.
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SPREAD THE WORD!
Posted on January 24th, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
We are looking to fill several positions:
- Senior Architect with 10 years+ of experience
- Fabrication Director
- Entry Level Designer
Email resumes and cover letters to nada@nadaaa.com
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“And Justice for All” Justice in Design in Oculus
Posted on January 23rd, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Press
In November 2017 a panel discussion titled “…And Justice for All, Reconstituting Just Potentials” was held at the Center for Architecture. Panelists included NADAAA’s Dan Gallagher, AIA who led the Justice in Design study last year in New York. Other panel members included Dr. Harold Appel, former NYC Correctional System physician; Lex Steppling, lead national organizer, Just Leadership USA; Fernando Martinez, Fulton project director, Osborne Association (Bronx); and Dr. Susan Opotow, professor of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, served as moderator. Oculus has published an edited transcript of the panel n this month’s issue.
“The imperative for change and the negative effects of our current system are extremely broad. They are generational and affect people of color and those with economic challenges in horribly disproportionate ways. We can do better.”
Read the full transcript HERE.
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MSD in PLATFORM
Posted on January 22nd, 2018 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Press
The Melbourne School of Design is featured in February’s issue of PLATFORM. Read the full piece HERE.
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