Kendall/MIT Gateway has been announced as a winner of the 2024 American Architecture Awards in the Airports and Transportation Centers category.
To learn more about the Gateway and see the other recipients click HERE.
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Josephine Minutillo writes on NADAAA and HDR’s new addition to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture.
She writes: “What’s striking at UNL is the multidirectional, splayed running bond arrangement of the panels on the upper three levels. The angles 12-by-17-foot Kalwall sections open up yp 2-foot-wide, full-height windows allowing east-facing views from the studios to the museum, and west where throngs of Cornhusker fans pour in along the stadium promenade on game day. At the ground level, which includes an open fabrication court behind hefty, exposed-wood columns and diagonal bracing, a black protruding element — matching the dark upper floors — offers a front entrance along that north elevation, something the earlier building lacked.”
Read more HERE.
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Nader speaks to Sam Cochran on NADAAA’s ongoing renovations at the Met during a behind-the-scenes tour: “How can connections be made that overcome archeological penchants for divisions?” So asks Nader Tehrani, whose Boston-based firm was selected to renovate the 15,000 square-foot galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art, slated to open in 2026. His design does just that, forging meaningful links among the cultures of this vast region. What had been a daisy chain of discrete rooms will be a continuous loop, with a toroid plan that eliminates walls and, with the addition of a ramp, improves accessibility. “The 19th century wanted to taxonomize everything,” Tehrani reflects. “History is never closed.” Vaulting, at turns rippling and broadly arching, will hint at chronological breaks and unify themes while nodding to ancient building technologies. Materials, too, break from neutral modernist tropes, with allusions to the lapis lazuli and bronze of artifacts. And four nonhierarchical entrances will extend dialogues to periods and places beyond the immediate galleries. “there are fluid connections from one space and one history to another.”
-Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest
Read on HERE.
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Kendall/MIT Gateway is nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Cycle 5.
Link HERE.
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NADAAA’s Kendall/MIT Gateway is the recipient of the Built Design Excellence award from the Boston Society of Architects.
Link HERE
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Video by our dynamic lighting collaborators at Sosolimited with editing by fiverr and music by artlist.
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Leopoldo Villardi studies the dual-purpose gateway/subway headhouse at Kendall/MIT for Record’s Transportation Issue.
‘A sleek, streamlined canopy, supported by a field of 26-foot-tall columns, hovers over the three prismatic kiosks to unify the composition. It is a fitting urban baldacchino for straphangers and students alike.’
‘It was never meant to be a gem, says Tehrani, but, coming near the conclusion of a campus expansion, “it is like the period at the end of a sentence”—one that has as much to say about urban planning as it does about local placemaking.’
Read on HERE.
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The Kendall/MIT Gateway has been named the Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design winner in the infrastructure category.
“The MIT/Kendall Gateway is actually operating as functional infrastructure, not just a public landscape. It is a point of transportation, not just an element leading you to that critical public infrastructure.” —Michelle Franco
Check out all this year’s winners HERE.
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Next Friday, October 13, Nader will be giving the annual Hyde Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The lecture will begin at 4pm in the Sheldon Museum of Art Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. More info on lecture series HERE.
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Join NADAAA and the Boston Society for Architecture Cultural Facilities Network on October 11 at 5:30 pm for a tour of the Adams Street Branch of the Boston Public Library. During the 60-minute tour and presentation, participants will take a behind-the-scenes look at the community’s influence on the building’s design and explore key sustainable details. This event will include a Q&A session at the end with Nader Tehrani.
RSVP HERE.
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