The Adams Street Branch Library received an Honorable Mention in the library category and MIT Site 4 also picked up an Honorable Mention Award in the mixed-use category. Check out all the winning projects HERE!
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APR’s 2021 Global Future Design Awards Jury selected MIT Site 4, RISD North Hall, Adams Street Branch Library, and Villa Varoise as winners in their respective categories of Mixed-Use, Housing, Institutional, and Residential projects.
Since 1994 The American Architecture Awards, organized by The Chicago Athenaeum, The European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies, and the Metropolitan Arts Press, has honored “the most significant new contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, interiors, and urban planning in the United States”. This is the country’s most prestigious project award program led by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, public arts, culture, and educational institution.
The new NADAAA-designed Adams Street Branch Library has opened in the Adams Village neighborhood of Boston. We are so pleased to see this project completed for the Dorchester community!
Mayor Kim Janey and leadership from the Boston Public Library spoke at the opening on Saturday:
I am thrilled that the new and improved Adams Street branch will once again provide an accessible, inclusive place for the Dorchester community to gather, learn, and grow. My local library played a huge part in my upbringing. Libraries like the Adams Street branch continue to bring joy and essential services to residents of all ages.
– Mayor Kim Janey
We’re thrilled and we hope the community will be, too. The old branch was much-loved, but this completely new building certainly raises the bar.
– David Leonard, President, Boston Public Library
Local press on the Adams Street Branch opening:
The exterior of the 13,450-square-foot building is striking, its sharp angles finished with glazed terra cotta panels and copper. Inside, the space is brightened by floor-to-ceiling windows that offer substantial views of the surrounding neighborhoods, a lovely rock garden, and beyond to the Blue Hills. Overhead, the undulating ceiling is accented with wood-beam baffles meant to mimic the peaks of the roofs on neighboring homes.
The City of Boston, through the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, is inviting artists to apply to create a permanent public artwork for the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library.
The City released the Call yesterday and there will be a Virtual Q+A on Wednesday, September 9th. The Deadline for submissions is Wednesday, September 16, 2020. To learn more, check out the Call to Artists HERE and more information can also be found HERE.
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The Adams Street Branch Library has won a Design Award of Honor in the Unbuilt and Theoretical Projects category. Find it in the SARANY 2019 Journal HERE!
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On July 10th the Adams Street Branch Library in Dorchester officially broke ground! Mayor Martin J. Walsh, along with the City’s Chief of Operations Patrick Brophy, Boston Public Library president David Leonard, and members of the community, including the Friends of the Adams Street Branch Library, gathered to celebrate the start of construction.
Mayor Walsh spoke to the undiminished importance of libraries in serving all members of the community and called the planned renovation “truly a library of the twenty-first century.”
NADAAA’s proposal for the Adams Street Branch Library renovation.
Boston Public Library President David Leonard commemorates the occasion.
Key team members, from left to right: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BPL Major Projects Coordinator Lissa Schwab, NADAAA Project Architect Amin Tadj, BPL Major Projects Program Manager Alison Ford, PFD Project Manager Jim McGaffigan, NADAAA Project Manager Michael Schanbacher, PFD Assistant Director Tom Leahy, PFD Assistant Director for Design Paul Donnelly, and Mayor’s Office Chief of Operations Pat Brophy.
Pint-sized library-goers take part in the ground-breaking.
Read more about the renovation and Mayor Walsh’s plan to improve the Boston branch libraries HERE.
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The Adams Branch Library officially breaks ground on Wednesday, July 10th! NADAAA, alongside Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Public Library, and the Boston Public Facilities Department are excited to celebrate the start of construction on the new library in Dorchester.
Join us at 690 Adams Street in Dorchester at 5:30 pm for the ceremony, followed by a community celebration featuring the Choco-leles, who will lead a ukulele sing-along. Learn more about the the project development HERE.
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