The American Academy in Rome congratulates the winners of the 116th annual Rome Prize Competition. The winners’ names were announced at the Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony held at the Harmonie Club in New York City on 26 April. Recipients of the 2012-2013 Rome Prizes are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy.
Nader Tehrani’s Tongxian Art project will be featured in unMade in China: Architecture Undone in P.R.C. an exhibit devoted to unbuilt projects in China that would have transformed the built environment today. Exhibit runs April19- May 19 at ide@s Gallery in Shanghai.
Nader Tehrani’s work is featured in the exhibit WBA3: Architecture in the Expanded Field (March 8–April 7, 2012) at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His projects include Fabrication Coincidences, Voromuro, and Voroduo.
In early February, a Roxbury Project Review Committee (PRC) voted unanimously to endorse Melnea Partners, including NADAAA, for the development of a City lot known as “Parcel 9.”
Dortoir Familial by NADAAA, Nader Tehrani’s practice, wins an AIANY Honor Award in the Unbuilt category.
See article in Architect’s Newspaper.
Project Description:
For centuries, the enclosed courtyard has been overlaid on various geographic settings—each time transformed according to the climate, rituals, and construction practices of the place. A vehicle to capture the outdoors within the building, the courtyard is defined by its interiority.
The Hinman Research Building project by Lord, Aeck and Sargent in collaboration with Office dA (Nader Tehrani) received an Interiors Honor Award from the AIANY Design Awards as well as an Environments Honorable Mention in the I.D. Annual Design Review. The project has already received the numerous accolades over the year, including:
In early February, a Roxbury Project Review Committee (PRC) voted unanimously to endorse Melnea Partners, including NADAAA, for the development of a City lot known as “Parcel 9.”
Professor Sheila Kennedy and KVA recently opened their newly designed UPenn Law School building.
11:30 AM presentations & Q&A / followed by student lead studio tour
Room 7-431 (far side of the Building 7 dome)
The deadline to declare your major is April 27, so bring your questions.
Course 4 faculty will present; faculty, staff and students will be there to answer questions.
Refreshments will be served.
Northern Speculations
A Toronto-based architecture firm is investing a considerable amount of energy into improving a food delivery network for Canada's Far North.
Read article here: http://www.canadianarchitect.com/news/northern-speculations/1000833549/
Pamela Ritchot is an architect and urban designer currently working at planningAlliance in Toronto on a regional development project in Northern Manitoba.
Image courtesy: Lateral Office, Toronto