We took down our Catenary Compression installation yesterday at the BSA Space, but we’ll be back again in a few months, curating a new Global Citizen exhibit for Moshe Safdie Architects.
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FAREWELL FOR NOW BSA SPACE
Posted on October 6th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Installations + Exhibitions
Rock Creek House wins AIADC Excellence in Architecture Award
Posted on October 6th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Awards
The recently completed Rock Creek House in DC has won the 2015 AIADC Excellence in Architecture Award.
Vote for Rock Creek in the People’s Choice Awards now on facebook.
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BATMAN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS
Posted on October 2nd, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Tanderrum Bridge, construction
Major Projects Victoria held a Sod Turning Ceremony earlier this week to mark the start of construction for the Batman Bridge project in Melbourne. The project is our second collaboration with John Wardle Architects and is being created as part of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Masterplan. Read more here.
photo by Major Projects Victoria
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MSD in Metropolis Education Issue
Posted on September 30th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Academic, Press
In this month’s special schools issue of METROPOLIS — Samuel Medina explores the innovative pedagogical approach of the Melbourne School of Design.
“Lined with timber, the space acts as a social condenser for all of the school’s 3,000 students, who, buzzing back and forth beneath the wood-and-glass coffered ceiling, unconsciously enact MSD’s pedagogical model […]
At MSD, the horizontal datum of the studio is transposed vertically and arrayed along the thickened corridors ringing the atrium. These are free work zones that carry studio activity upward, carved-out spaces for spontaneous encounters and rapid-fire collaborative sessions. They are kitted out with ‘hot desks’ that jostle their way over the lip of the floor plate and are held in place by a thin, liminal mesh and shiny folded stainless-steel railings that just say ‘zoom’.”
-Samuel Medina
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THE INDISCRETIONS OF MIES
Posted on September 28th, 2015 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: _Daniels Building, Things We Like
Álvaro Siza Vieira visits the Toronto Dominion Center, guided by Dean Richard Sommer and Professor Robert Levit.
As he points to the cornice line, Siza sees the reflection of the Banking Hall at the base of the building, noting the flat coffered ceiling, and the entasis of beams which enable its flush profile. Commenting on the maximum moment of span, he acknowledged the play of structural forces that invariably put the acclaimed Modernist into a dizzying predicament, forcing him to make a difficult choice at a critical point in his career –between the optimization of steel and the reduction of visual stimulus.
Imagining the hidden indiscretions of Mies, Siza asks his guides: What came first, the entasis, or the flat ceiling?
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Nader lectures at CSBE in Jordan this week
Posted on September 28th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Academic, Lectures
Nader travels to Amman this week to give a public lecture and serve on the jury of the 5th annual Omrania | CSBE Student Award. The award is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Built Environment, a non-profit researcher in Jordan.
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Amelia Taylor-Hochberg asks Nader about his new role at Cooper
Posted on September 25th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Academic, The Cooper Union
Archinect’s Amelia Taylor-Hochberg interviews Nader about Cooper’s legacy, culture, and Nader’s hopes to “make a Cooper Union that’s an open environment for debate, for discourse and competing agendas”. Read the story here.
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THE DAY OF ELKHOURY
Posted on September 24th, 2015 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: Things We Like
The City of Miami has proclaimed September 24 “Rodolphe el-Khoury Day”! Congratulations Friend!
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MSD wins Aussie Timber Award!
Posted on September 21st, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Awards
The Australian Timber Design Awards jury selected the Melbourne School of Design as the overall winner this year. The MSD was also a finalist in the sustainability category. See the other winners here.
“Judges were effusive in their praise for the manner in which the timber framed and lined building envelope [of the hanging studio] is suspended from two of the overhead LVL beams… The selection and working of the timbers shows exceptional understanding of the material and lends warmth to the complex structural design.”
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Amin Tadj to jury AIA Dallas Design Awards
Posted on September 18th, 2015 by Nicole Sakr
Posted under: Things We Like
NADAAA’s Amin Tadj will jury the upcoming AIA Dallas Built Design Awards this fall.
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