MSD wins AIANY Honor Award

Posted on March 11th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Awards

The Melbourne School of Design has won a 2015 Honor Award in the annual AIANY Design Awards.

See the MSD submission as well as all the other winning projects here.

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DISCIPLINED NEGOTIATIONS OPENS IN KELLER GALLERY

Posted on March 10th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions

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NADAAA’s “Disciplined Negotiations with the Architectural Type” opened on Friday at the Keller Gallery at MIT.  It will be on display through early April. For more information click here.

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FABRICATE 2015

Posted on March 9th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Lectures

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Nader will be the Keynote Speaker at the AIAS-Kentucky conference “Fabricate 2015” on April 10 in Lexington, KY.

The conference is student-run composed of day-long collaborative workshops underlining the importance of design innovation.

 

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ORDOS 20+10 FEATURED ON ARCHDAILY

Posted on March 6th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press

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The Ordos 20+10 project in Ordos City is featured this week on Archdaily. Ordos 20+10 recently won a 2015 Progressive Architecture Award.

 

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“DISCIPLINED NEGOTIATIONS” at the Keller Gallery

Posted on March 5th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions

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NADAAA’s “Disciplined Negotiations with the Architectural Type” Exhibit is on display at the Keller Gallery at MIT through early April. The exhibit compares two seemingly disparate projects, Ordos 20+10 and the New Hampshire Retreat, to reveal their common preoccupation with the figural clarity of architectural typology. These two projects negotiate the constraints and conventions of type by introducing the bespoke, the aberrant, and the unique in addressing the specificities of each architectural challenge in inventive ways.

The opening event will be tomorrow at 6:30pm in conjunction with Happy Hour.

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NADAAA work on display at MIT faculty Exhibit

Posted on March 5th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions

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Dortoir Familial (winner of 60th Annual PA award, AIANY and BSA Unbuilt Awards) is on display at the Wolk Gallery as part of the MIT faculty research and design collection entitled Building Discourse. On view until April 17th.

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Demolition Sublime

Posted on March 3rd, 2015 by tberesford

Posted under: _Daniels Building, construction

Dispatches from 1 Spadina: ongoing demolition work has almost completely exposed the original north wall of Knox College (constructed 1875), which has revealed the layers of nearly 150 years of alterations and retrofits to serve uses as varied as academic, hospital, military, research, and mechanical plant space.

 

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West face of the 1 Spadina east heritage wing, after demolition of 20th century additions.

 

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East face of the 1 Spadina west heritage wing, after demolition of 19th and 20th century additions.

 

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A view of the central tower block, looking south-east from the third floor level of a 20th century addition in the process of being demolished. Existing gothic arches are evident in the right foreground, which were originally expressed on the exterior. The larger relieving arch had been truncated by the installation of a concrete slab, which is now visible as a saw-cut section (with some reinforcing steel remaining to be cut). The new DFALD addition will lap over this slab edge onto the heritage roof beyond. New concrete blocks are visible at left, which enclose a retrofitted elevator shaft. Beyond, new buff replacement brick are visible at the gable of the central block.

 

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View of the west wall of the original east wing. A palimpsest of previous interior wall finishes and various cut slabs and masonry construction has appeared between new and existing opening hoarded temporarily with sheathing.

 

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View of 20th century addition at the southeast corner of the original 1 Spadina courtyard. Over the course of demolition, access has become restricted; here, ongoing structural separation work beyond the masonry wall in the foreground is accessible only via ladder through an existing portal. A slab-chipping machine is visible beyond at upper left.

 

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Brick wythes are visible at a section of wall to host an enlarged opening for a doorway. Outer wythes are often infilled with rubble in the original construction. A section of former wood lintel is evident.

 

 

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MID-RISE MEDLEY

Posted on February 25th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Things We Like

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at the office, photo by Tom Beresford

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SECTION CUT VISITS NADAAA

Posted on February 24th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press

Dan Weismann and Kyle Sturgeon from Section Cut interview Nader on practice, the academy, the discipline of architecture, and research.

LISTEN HERE

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EXPORT AGENDAS TOMORROW AT NORTHEASTERN

Posted on February 24th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Lectures

Nader will speak tomorrow at Northeastern’s Export Agendas Symposium. Nader’s talk ‘Import-Export’ explores the intellectual and practical predicaments involved in the transport of architectural discourse and business across boundaries. The symposium will run from 1:00-6:00pm in the Curry Student Center. More information can be found on the School of Architecture’s website here.

The event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP.

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