Record’s Matt Hickman takes a look at NADAAA and HDR’s collaboration in mass timber at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture as part of their current special issue. Check out the full digital version HERE.
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Aerial view of Lincoln Center campus from the East looking to the Hudson River. Photo by Iñaki Vinaixa, courtesy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
NADAAA is collaborating with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) on an initiative to make its iconic New York City campus more welcoming and equitable. The initiative will focus on community and stakeholder engagement in collaboration with the nonprofit Hester Street. The primary goal of the process is to physically transform the Amsterdam Avenue side of campus and improve Damrosch Park to better serve Lincoln Center neighbors including the residents of the New York City Housing Authority campuses across Amsterdam Avenue and students of the nearby high schools.
On Friday, June 9, at this year’s national AIA conference in San Francisco, Nader will join The Met’s vice president of construction, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, and architects Frida Escobedo and Kulapat Yantrasast, Ph.D. for a session on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural projects. The panel will give a behind-the-scenes look at how The Met works with architects to refine its mission, make decisions, and solve problems.
More info on the session HERE. Register for the AIA Conference on Architecture 2023 HERE.
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“Arts and cultural institutions are living sites of memory. They create narratives of the past informed by the present. The architect’s ability to mediate between the two is crucial.” -AN’s Malika Leiper writes on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current architectural and curatorial undertakings.
This Sunday, April 30, get a sneak peek of plans underway for NADAAA’s Turkey Bend project in Houston with a tour of the site and a panel discussion on the role of graffiti in the project. Turkey Bend is a former industrial site that is being repurposed as a community recreational space by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.
The Adams Street Branch Library will be winning both a Boston Society for Architecture Honor Award for Design Excellence and an Interior Architecture Award at the 2022 BSA Awards Gala. As well, the full RISD Quad Block project will be winning a Campus and Urban Planning Award. Join us on January 18th at the Gala at Artists for Humanity, register HERE!
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“The transformational design walks a delicate line, as Tehrani admits, between framing the pieces—metallurgy, textiles, sarcophagi, statuary—in their correct capacity and giving the context its material specificity, without trying to upstage the work. […] But the project is part of a bigger discussion that rescripts the narrative of ancient cultures. By attempting to evoke these various realities through character, affect, color, materiality, and immersive space, NADAAA’s intervention enters into the complex discussion of what role a museum plays in today’s world.” – Patrick McGraw