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NADAAA chosen to lead $40 million renovation of the Met's Ancient Near East and Cypriot Art galleries

2022-03-16T14:17:00-04:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has appointed Boston architect Nadaaa to the $40m reconfiguring of a suite of its galleries. The practice, led by principal designer Nader Tehrani, will work with Moody Nolan, the US’s largest African-American-owned and -managed practice, as architect of record on the 15,000sq ft project. The pair will undertake the complete renovation of the Met’s galleries for Ancient Near Eastern and Cypriot Art which currently occupy 11 rooms on the second floor.

As detailed by The Met, the renovation will introduce architectural and design elements that reflect both the materials and geographic origins of the work on view. This will be evident in the Ancient Near Eastern Art galleries, which will be characterized by a series of architectural backdrops that reflect the materials used in the works such as clay, copper, bronze, gold, silver, and lapis lazuli.

The renovation will unite the formerly separated collection areas, reflecting areas of interconnection between their cultures. The new gallery space will employ an open floor plan in order to establish a sense of scale and grandeur. It will feature vistas that open to the Great Hall Balcony and surrounding collections. This work also meets the museum’s strategy to reduce its carbon footprint, as it aims to reduce energy consumption in this area by around 40%. The new galleries are scheduled to open in 2025.

Balkrishna Doshi's 2018 Pritzker Prize Laureate Lecture to be streamed live on May 16th

2018-05-02T18:14:00-04:00

Balkrishna Doshi, the 2018 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, will present his public lecture “Paths Uncharted” on May 16th at 6:30pm EST. Professor Doshi’s lecture will be recorded and streamed live on Facebook and Instagram via @UofTDaniels. Following the event, the recording will be made available on the Daniels Faculty’s YouTube channel.

The University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design will host this event in their new Daniels Building designed by NADAAA in collaboration with ERA Architects and Adamson & Associates. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Pritzker Prize, and the first time that the international award will be presented in Canada.

The public is invited to participate in this educational initiative, which aims to heighten discussion and debate around architecture, stimulate awareness of work in the field, and inspire greater creativity within the architectural profession.

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A survey of architecture's new leadership, from Johnston Marklee to Bjarke Ingels

2017-09-13T09:49:00-04:00

They are in that fertile period — agewise, it typically runs from the mid-40s to mid-50s in architecture — when the profession’s next generation of leadership begins to make its mark.

NADAAA, Atelier TAG, SHoP Architects, Oyler Wu Collaborative: these are among the firms highlighted in this piece in the New York Times, which surveys the architects who are currently primed to "lead" the profession. Los Angeles-based pair and married couple Johnston Marklee, who are heading up this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial with a theme of "make new history," are included alongside relative youngster Bjarke Ingels of BIG, who champions his self-described "hedonistic sustainability."

Rendering of the Menil Drawing Institute, designed by Johnston Marklee. Image: Johnston Marklee/Nephew

Architect's Top 50 firms include NADAAA, Gensler, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill

2015-09-09T14:12:00-04:00

We updated our methodology to include new metrics: percentage of women and minority designers; range and value of employee benefits; rate of employee turnover.

What defines a successful architectural firm? For Architect Magazine, it's a blend of diversity in staffing, sustainability, and overall design savvy/business acumen. Accordingly, big names Gensler, SOM, and Perkins + Will snagged places in the top five, while Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture received the highest score overall, also taking the top spot in the category of business. In the category of design, NADAAA scored the highest; in sustainability, it was EYP Architecture & Engineering. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill were recently commissioned to design the Burj 2020, while NADAAA's founding principal Nader Tehrani was selected to be the new Dean of the Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

Photos from the "Bigger Than a Breadbox" opening reception

2015-06-18T18:36:00-04:00

What is the role of installation in architecture? More importantly, how does a curator arrange an installation that is primarily concerned with the effects of installation? “Bigger Than a Breadbox," which held its public opening reception on June 17th, is partly the brainchild of BSA space, Archinect, and curators Aaron Willette and Rob Trumbour of Khôra LLC, who considered precisely how to arrange the space to best explore this concept. We asked curator Aaron Willette about his process and the inherent challenges in creating an installation about installation.

“Working with architects is like herding cats,” Willette joked, before describing the fundamental aim of the installation, which was to incorporate the general public, not only physically, but intellectually. Instead of creating a highly abstracted terrain, first-time curator Willette strove to make the exhibit as accessible to passerby as it would be to gallery veterans.

Willette worked on precisely how to mount the exhibitio...