Nader Tehrani will serve as a keynote speaker at WSU School of Design and Construction’s upcoming symposium.
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PLEASE TOUCH
Posted on March 11th, 2014 by dgallagher
Posted under: Events, Installations + Exhibitions, Lectures, Press
Hana Kassem, Design Director at KPF and myself have put together a great roundtable discussion on the programming of public art. The speakers are fantastic and a lively discussion is inevitable. Open to all, free admission and refreshments served.
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Travelling Light
Posted on March 11th, 2014 by dgallagher
Posted under: Lectures, Things We Like
Post Cornell Professional Practice lecture, the students submit proposals for housing a resume laden USB drive. This year had a great array of options but I could not pass up the old-school-Samsonite style briefcase sized appropriately in Lucite.
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Melbourne Milestones
Posted on March 10th, 2014 by Sia Herr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, construction
Over the last month, construction of Melbourne University FABP celebrated two major milestones. One being the removal of the supports for the 40 foot cantilever and the other, the installation of the coffered roof which has been an intricate and coordinated process to bring on site and install. You can already start to experience the spatial impact of these two elements.
JWA and NADAAA in collaboration.
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Meejin Yoon Finalist for Dudley Art Commission
Posted on March 3rd, 2014 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: Things We Like
Meejin wins the art commission for the Dudley Municipal Center and in turn, gives the public a platform to engage, interact and put their content onto the public stage! Her work, part of Howeler + Yoon Architecture and MY Studio, have always sought to include the public as an element of the experience and not just as a viewer. We are excited to see the final installation which is only a couple blocks from NADAAA’s studio.
See full article on the project and finalists here.
Image as found on www.publicartboston.com
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P/A Awards 2014
Posted on February 21st, 2014 by Sia Herr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, Awards
JWA and NADAAA‘s new architecture building at the University of Melbourne was selected as 1 of 10 projects for this year’s Progressive Architecture Awards. It is an incredible honor to be recognized among talent of such high caliber.
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For Our Own Home
Posted on February 21st, 2014 by pmacdowell
Posted under: construction, Installations + Exhibitions, NADLAB
Unable to find suitable stands for our architectural models, we commissioned ourselves to build a custom set of steel tables.
Each table has a simple frame of 1″ square tube. The steel is cut to length with double-bevels (yay for our new lubricated band saw), jigged square, and tacked together.
Resolving the corners of the implied box is the key detail of the design. The cleanly-executed welds are left unground and exposed.
The frames are topped with a raw 3/16″ plate and fitted with leveling/locking casters.
Our models, in the NADAAA gallery space.
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el Bulli at MIT
Posted on February 18th, 2014 by Nader Tehrani
Posted under: Events, Things We Like
Ferran Adria and his crew of el Bulli were at MIT last week. Working with the master plan developed by Enric Ruiz Geli, the MIT team comprised of Anton Garcia Abril (our coordinator) and myself, along with Cristina Parreno, Lorena Bello, Kent Larson, Meejin Yoon, Neri Oxman, we developed a series of interventions on the el Bulli site, on the coast of southern Spain, in Cala Montjoi.
The Spanish government has approved plans for the development of the site, and the MIT team has contributed a series of installations, protocols, and spaces that speak to the ethos of el Bulli– framing the relationship between experimentation, art and the senses.
After the MIT charrette, Adria opened his exhibit at the Museum of Science with an extraordinary feast of gastronomical experiments.
The next steps are still to be developed. Stay tuned!
Top image: Ferran Adria En Construcion. El Palais Semanal. February 2014. p32-43.
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Tongxian Gatehouse
Posted on February 12th, 2014 by Sia Herr
Posted under: Things We Like
The Tongxian Gatehouse was built over ten years ago, some 30 minutes outside of Beijing. With the speed of expansion, the project now sits within the expanding footprint of the city, and what was a rural small town has become densified. With this advent, the rural roads have had to be widened. Given its heritage status, the Tongxian Gatehouse was moved back from the existing street about 60 ft.
This project is less than 2,000 square feet in size, but remains an important one in our work. It is maybe the most comprehensive proposal where we align the interest of geometry, program, form and tectonic unit into binding reciprocity, such that there emerges a more critical relationship between part and whole. Most notably, the main complex was never built. Another structure was built in its stead by Ai Wei Wei, who also served as our local expediter for the gatehouse.
For construction photos by Nathan Willock, click here.
Photos by Nathan Willock.
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Coffered Roof Taking Shape
Posted on February 5th, 2014 by Sia Herr
Posted under: _Melbourne School of Design, construction
Last week, we posted on the off-site fabrication of the panels for the coffered roof above the studio hall at the University of Melbourne. The first bay has been assembled and craned in place! Stay tuned for the full reveal.
JWA in collaboration with NADAAA. Photo credit: JWA
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