NADAAA ranked #4 overall in Architect’s Top 50!

Posted on November 30th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Awards, Press

NADAAA ranked #2 in Design and #4 Overall in the Ninth Annual Architect 50. This is the fifth year in a row NADAAA has placed in the top three design firms in the United States! A big thank you to all of our clients who have helped make this possible!

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The Politics of Play: Nader on Hashim Sarkis’s work

Posted on November 28th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic

“Sarkis demonstrates that to be politically effective, architecture must somehow operate through its autonomy, if only to show how its own techniques, tools, and devices, participate in building an imagination for the world”

 

“Consider the herringbone pattern that adorns the Balloon Landing structure in Beirut […] Here, the grain overcomes the traditional opposition between surface and depth, or structure and skin; the thinness of paint, the laminar nature of the wood lattice, and the depth of a concrete pour are brought to both material and sematic equation, as the herringbone becomes inextricably bound to the geological depths of the site onto which it is cast.”

 

Read Nader’s full essay for -NESS.docs HERE.

 

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Tonight: Nader at The American University of Beirut

Posted on November 27th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Lectures

Nader will lecture tonight at ALH, Department of Architecture and Design at AUB as part of the Areen Lecture Series at 6:30pm. For more information please contact: communications@aub.edu.lb

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Katie featured in Steel Structures Magazine

Posted on November 26th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press

“The elegance of steel is introduced early in the education of an architect, as that mysterious element that made towers and bridges possible. I suspect many of us fall in love with the Crystal Palace first.”

Read on HERE.

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Rock Creek House shortlisted for World Interior Awards

Posted on November 22nd, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Rock Creek House, Awards

The Rock Creek House has been shortlisted for a World Interior News Award in the residential category. Winners will be announced in a few weeks at the WIN annual gala. More info HERE.

“The material palette used for the Rock Creek house interiors has a very calm, even and contemporary tone to it. However, what particularly drew our attention was the highly original approach to the geometry of the joinery for the staircases and balustrades.’ Lee Hallman, Head of Design, Qatari Diar

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The Daniels Building named a ‘Best of Year’ Finalist

Posted on November 21st, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Awards

The Daniels Building at The University of Toronto has been named a finalist in Interior Design’s Annual BOY Awards. Winners will be honored this next Friday at the IAC. See the rest of the finalists HERE.

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Dan invited to join the New York City Justice implementation Task Force

Posted on November 21st, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Academic, Press

SMALLER, SAFER, FAIRER: Steps towards closing Rikers

The Justice Implementation Task Force fully launched two weeks ago joined by NADAAA’s Dan Gallagher, with Working Groups on Safely Reducing the Jail Population, Culture Change and Design meeting to provide feedback and innovation to the City’s strategies to transform our justice system.

In a major step in configuring jails off Rikers Island, the city is inviting proposals for a master plan for a borough-based jail system for New York City. Starting with the three existing Department of Correction facilities in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, the study will provide information on what is possible at each location, as well as help to identify additional sites, as needed, to house a population of 5,000 off-Island. The study will engage neighborhoods along with members of the Design Working Group of the Justice Implementation Task Force.

For NADAAA’s initial report on decentralizing Rikers click HERE.

For more information on “Smaller, Safer, Fairer” click HERE.

 

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Mantra in ΔΟΜΕΣ

Posted on November 18th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Press

The Greek architecture magazine ΔΟΜΕΣ explores Mantra.

“The Hookah den explores the possibility of simultaneously addressing geometry and patterning as connubial ingredients in the generation of space by creating a direct relationship between the tectonic unit and geometric logic.”

View the full article HERE.

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Tonight! Dan speaking on ‘Reconstituting Just Potentials’

Posted on November 17th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: Events, Lectures

Come listen, discuss, and support this effort to continue shaping new futures for justice in New York. Taking place tonight from 6-8 pm at the Center for Architecture in New York.

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Daniels Building Opening Featured on Urban Toronto

Posted on November 17th, 2017 by Nicole Sakr

Posted under: _Daniels Building, Events

Read about the Daniels Building’s big opening HERE!

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