SHELLS AND HOLES: MIT SITE 4 UPDATE!

Posted on December 21st, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _MIT Site 4, construction

Office site visit: December 13, 2017, much going on including slurry walls, seacant piles, LBEs, driven piles, and sheet piling!

individual slurry wall hole

slurry wall system in use

 foundations for tower

elevator pit that will go from ground level retail down to the garage

bracing for E39

E38 stripped down

future skylight at E38

 

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Manifesto 21: The Tectonic Grain

Posted on December 21st, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Lectures, Press

After a lecture at the Festival of Design in Shanghai, Nader was asked to render the lecture into an essay. With help from Brendan Kellogg, Nellie Yang and Cindy Sun of Neri & Hu a bilingual thesis emerged on ‘the tectonic grain’

Read the full essay HERE.

 

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Nader Featured in Hotchkiss Magazine’s “Art of Design”

Posted on December 20th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Press

Wendy Carlson from The Hotchkiss School visited the office earlier this year to interview Nader, a Hotchkiss Alum, about the office, balancing work between NADAAA and Cooper and his first impressions of Hotchkiss. Read the full article HERE.

“I’m trained as a traditional architect and have basically spent 25 years constantly re-educating myself through the younger generation. The idea of a teacher as the central master is all but obsolete. We learn horizontally: students learn from each other, and teachers more often learn from students. Whereas we may bring more experience to the conversation, the next generation brings an openness and a digital dexterity that often overturns one’s assumptions.”

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Katie Juries Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards

Posted on December 20th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Awards, Things We Like

Katie recently served as juror for the Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards, selecting the Suzhou Chapel as best of 2017.

“The Suzhou Chapel expresses its serenity through a simple palette of color and materials. Brick walls anchor the building to the landscape, while the looming white form indicates a hierarchy to be discovered. The interior appears to be a skillful bending of light, with raw concrete – punctuated by generous openings – subtly transitioning to a warm wood liner. The project is distinguished by its deceptive simplicity: the motif of the light boxes is echoed in the expertly constructed brick. The fixtures complement the natural light. The Suzhou Chapel is at once a display of restraint and a complex spatial sequence. It is deserving of recognition.”

 

 

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‘Looking across the Diptych’ Opening in Rome

Posted on December 19th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Events

GUARDANDO ATTRAVERSO IL DITTICO

Nader Tehrani-NADAAA

The exhibition is curated by Manuela De Leonardis and will open December 23rd at 19.00 and remain on view through January 4th at Bibliothè, Via Celsa 4 (Piazza del Gesù), Rome. More information can be found on Bibliothè‘s Facebook page HERE.

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Blueprint 354: Nader on the current challenges of architecture education

Posted on December 18th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press

“On the one hand, students have infinite ability to engage with sophisticated software, technologies and tools to produce new forms of knowledge at a very early moment in their intellectual evolution; on the other hand, they also have an unprecedented need for understanding of how to channel this potentiality through critical filters, to better assess what they are doing and to engage with their medium in more judicious, discerning and self-conscious ways. this is a time when the role of the humanities, by way of philosophy and critical thinking, may also take on renewed importance if we are to gain a better appreciation of not ‘what’ we can do, but ‘why’ we should do them.”

Full text HERE.

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Shenzhen Biennale inauguration!

Posted on December 17th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Installations + Exhibitions, The Cooper Union

Read on Archdaily more about the Biennale HERE.

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100 International Architects of 2017

Posted on December 14th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards, Events, Installations + Exhibitions

The Korean Institute of Architects named Katie and Nader among the world’s top 100 architects of 2017 with a special citation of the Daniels Building project for the University of Toronto. The project was part of an international exhibition recently held in Seoul.

 

 

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Azure: How NADAAA saved the DFALD ceiling

Posted on December 13th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Academic, Press

“NADAAA’s hyperbolic paraboloid solution, says Faulkner, was significantly different from how the contractor was envisioning it. They had pictured a series of specialty metals crafted into an armature. The full-scale model proved that any framer could construct the ceiling using standard drywall, scoring it to create the curve.”

Read on HERE.

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Shenzhen Biennale Teaser

Posted on December 9th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions, The Cooper Union

The Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale is opening in five days! NADAAA, in collaboration with the Cooper Union has designed “Zhulang Huagai: A Figure for the Nantou Urban Village” which is currently under construction. A special thanks to Cooper Union students Margaux Wheelock-Shew and Jeremy Son for their work on this project. Also a special thanks to the Thornton Tomasetti team: Tian-Fang Jing, Walter Woodington, James Richardson, and Hauke Jungjohann.

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