http://nmda-inc.com Neil M. Denari Architects Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:29:52 +0000 http://nmda-inc.com en http://www.nmda-inc.com/FIRST-PRIZE-Keelung-2012-17 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/FIRST-PRIZE-Keelung-2012-17 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:29:52 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 4117403 Keelung, TaiwanThe international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Service Project, won by NMDA in September 2012, presented an opportunity to expand on many issues that the office has been working on over the last few years, including our explorations into mass, shaped windows, and clean yet complex developable surface geometry. The Port of Keelung serves, at times, 10,000 cruise ship passengers a day, making it Taiwan’s largest port of entry into the country. Keelung lies on the Northern Coast of Taiwan, 23 kilometers Northeast of Taipei on the often cloud covered slopes of the Keelung Mountains. Known as the rainy port, Keelung with its wet climate, has a lush green collar surrounding its 350,000 inhabitants. For NMDA, the specifics of the site both locally and regionally have impacted the design in its massing and materials and colors. Site phasing has dictated that the terminal, which will enter construction in 2013, will be located within a first phase construction zone that is 55 meters deep. This precipitated a linear organization to the terminal, a complex set of port programs layered across three main floors. The main entry and boarding corridor are located at +7:00m, while the shopping mezzanine and boardwalk are at +13.00m. Shaped by these parameters as well as the functional circuitry of the various pathways and hardware of movement, the terminal extracts formal properties from programmatic limits. ETFE skylights hover over voids lined with stainless steel mesh, a diaphanous surface intended to refract light into the terminal spaces. The Northern end of the terminal turns vertical as it supports a cantilevered scenic restaurant, which itself becomes a bridge to the second phase office complex. Below the Gateway Tower is a boardwalk called “the Shoelace” that forms a connective loop / roundabout to other directions on the boardwalk level. Across the main drop off road, the main office building which will house the Harbor authority, police station, a large post office transfer facilities, a weather station, and a vast array of harbor support offices, is a 53,000 square meter, 70 meter tall structure. Based on a courtyard type, the building is a distorted and punctured form whose specific cantilevers and surface orientations are based on prevailing views and breezes. Punched windows move across two floors and in various directions, two attributes that change the perception of the size of the building. The main mass opens up at the lower floors on the street/access side of the site, exposing chartreuse and sea foam green circulation cores, creating an in-between reading of a hollowed out solid and a building on columns. An expansive public plaza occupies the roof of the service base of the site. The plaza is connected to pathways that move in and around the office building and the terminal that connect with the seaside boardwalk. Project Team: Design Architects: Neil M. Denari Architects, Inc. Executive Architects: Fei & Cheng Associates, Taipei Structural and Façade: Thornton Tomasetti, Los Angeles Logistics and Environmental: ARUP, Hong Kong Renderings and Animation: Nephew - Fullscreen <img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/1_Aerial view from the Northeast_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/1_Aerial view from the Northeast_o.jpg" data-mid="21617831" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/2_Aerial view from the South_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/2_Aerial view from the South_o.jpg" data-mid="21617860" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/2a_View of Entrance to public plaza and Office Complex_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" 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src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/4_Aerial view from the North_o.jpg" data-mid="21617996" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/Elevation1_640.jpg" width="640" height="261" width_o="1024" height_o="417" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/Elevation1_o.jpg" data-mid="21618012" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/Elevation3_640.jpg" width="640" height="261" width_o="1024" height_o="417" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/Elevation3_o.jpg" data-mid="21618018" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/9_View of 11th floor exterior garden_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/9_View of 11th floor exterior garden_o.jpg" data-mid="21618038" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Lobby_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Lobby_o.jpg" data-mid="21618052" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Concourse_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Concourse_o.jpg" data-mid="21618064" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Central Atrium_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1600" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload90.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/4117403/3F Terminal Central Atrium_o.jpg" data-mid="21618074" border="0" align="left"/> Keelung, TaiwanThe international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Service Project, won by NMDA in September 2012, presented an opportunity to expand on many... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Multi-Section-Office-Block-1998 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Multi-Section-Office-Block-1998 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:32:29 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 3111318 Los Angeles A self initiated research project, the Multi-Section Office Block is a proposal for 800,000 square feet of office and ground floor commercial space on a buys East-West boulevard in Los Angeles. The propositions centers around a a series of sectionally dominant surface/faced profiles that wrap around a straightforward flat slab concrete frame. These surfaces, like snowflakes, are similar yet different, generating a great diversity of spaces with only minor variations in profile. - The project is conceived of as an environmentally responsive structure with most of the linear movement through the block occurring in voids and courtyards which allow light and fresh air to penetrate the building. As it is on the South side of the street, the building's shadows do not fall on adjacent residential property. - The 045 Freeway slices though the site, a moment that dramatizes the seriality of the multiple sections. - Fullscreen <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-01_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-01_o.jpg" data-mid="15885083" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-02_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-02_o.jpg" data-mid="15885085" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-03_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-03_o.jpg" data-mid="15885088" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-04_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-04_o.jpg" data-mid="15885090" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-05_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-05_o.jpg" data-mid="15885094" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-06_640.jpg" width="640" height="396" width_o="1024" height_o="633" src_o="http://payload40.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3111318/multi-section-office-block-06_o.jpg" data-mid="15885097" border="0" align="left"/> Los Angeles A self initiated research project, the Multi-Section Office Block is a proposal for 800,000 square feet of office and ground floor commercial space on a... http://www.nmda-inc.com/High-Line-Gallery-2009 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/High-Line-Gallery-2009 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:14:15 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2581491 New York Located on 24th street in West Chelsea, and adjacent to HL23, this gallery is a 4,000 square foot box designed to maximize the allowable volume dictated by the site easements around the High Line. The facade is a 15 ft tall surface of 10mm thick bead blasted aluminum panels. - Inside, the main gallery space is intersected by four black columns that support the High Line above. Support spaces fill out the space with stair access to a small roof deck above for private gatherings. <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-01a_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1022" height_o="766" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-01a_o.jpg" data-mid="15859512" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-02a_640.jpg" width="640" height="380" width_o="832" height_o="494" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-02a_o.jpg" data-mid="15859520" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-03a_640.jpg" width="640" height="309" width_o="1024" height_o="494" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-03a_o.jpg" data-mid="15860564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-04b_640.jpg" width="640" height="309" width_o="1024" height_o="494" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581491/high-line-gallery-04b_o.jpg" data-mid="15860567" border="0" align="left"/> New York Located on 24th street in West Chelsea, and adjacent to HL23, this gallery is a 4,000 square foot box designed to maximize the allowable volume dictated... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Twentieth-Show-Room-2012 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Twentieth-Show-Room-2012 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:55:15 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2581358 Los Angeles Twentieth is a 6,000 sf furniture showroom with support spaces located on Beverly Boulevard, one of Los Angeles’ busiest thoroughfares. Founded in 1999 by Stefan Lawrence, Twentieth has become Los Angeles’ most respected seller of vintage and new modern furniture. Lawrence commissioned NMDA to renovate a single story bowstring truss building, a classic structural type in the city. The corner site, complete with a radial transition between the North and West facades is typical in the area and is similar to l.a. Eyeworks two blocks to the East, a 2002 project by NMDA. Compelled by many of our previous projects’ elaborate skin systems, including the recently completed HL23, Lawrence asked for a 3D panelized surface that would bring unexpected effects through materiality and geometry. - The scheme revolves around large punched windows deployed between perimeter columns and the bronze aluminum cladding that dramatizes these transparent moments with the impasto of its deep patterning. Black steel window frames combine with black plaster column covers to produce a graphic edge to the bronze field. Together, the overall ambition is to make a visually weighted, rather warm surface out of light weight metallic elements, a contrast that occurs within the array of furniture inside the showroom. - Fullscreen <img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-01_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-01_o.jpg" data-mid="17560316" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-02_640.jpg" width="640" height="425" width_o="1280" height_o="850" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-02_o.jpg" data-mid="17560331" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-03_640.jpg" width="640" height="425" width_o="1280" height_o="850" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-03_o.jpg" data-mid="17560353" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-04_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1280" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-04_o.jpg" data-mid="17560369" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-05_640.jpg" width="640" height="425" width_o="1280" height_o="850" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-05_o.jpg" data-mid="17560391" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-06_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1280" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload14.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2581358/twentieth-show-room-06_o.jpg" data-mid="17560416" border="0" align="left"/> Los Angeles Twentieth is a 6,000 sf furniture showroom with support spaces located on Beverly Boulevard, one of Los Angeles’ busiest thoroughfares. Founded in... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Slavyanka-Kindergarten-2010 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Slavyanka-Kindergarten-2010 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:02:28 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 3067495 Pushkin, Russia NMDA was one of five offices invited to a competition for the design of 1,000,000 square meters of middle class housing on a site of nearly one square kilometer. The program also included seven schools, four of which were kindergartens. As part of its submission, NMDA designed a single story school for 100 children ages 3-5 yrs old. - The plan is organized around five colored bands of carpeted floor topographies with two internal play yards. Class rooms, play areas, offices, cafeteria, and kitchen are deployed along these bands. - Though the plan is organized in sequential parallel zones, the geometry of the cast concrete structure utilizes developable surfaces for columns and skylights, creating a more or less modular approach to space. The project searches for, in that regard, a kind of vagueness, between an oceanic, terrain vague and a series of articulated volumes. - <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-01.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-01_o.jpg" data-mid="15647736" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-02.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-02_o.jpg" data-mid="15647737" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-03.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-03_o.jpg" data-mid="15647738" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-04.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-04_o.jpg" data-mid="15647741" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-05.jpg" width="640" height="551" width_o="640" height_o="551" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3067495/slavyanka-kindergarten-05_o.jpg" data-mid="15647743" border="0" align="left"/> Pushkin, Russia NMDA was one of five offices invited to a competition for the design of 1,000,000 square meters of middle class housing on a site of nearly one... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Central-Station-Main-2012 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Central-Station-Main-2012 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:07:45 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 3062234 Houston Houston's light rail system has, like other North American cities using this relatively new infrastructure, helped transform the identity of, if only partially, this Sun Belt city as a car dominant landscape. To further this mission, the Houston Rapid Transit and the Houston Downtown Management District invited five architectural offices to make proposals for a Red Line Station at Central Station - Main on a prominent site in the CBD. - The rather simple station program was here augmented by the wish to have an iconic design, one that would articulate cultural desires beyond the limited scope of functional demand. In response to this, NMDA analyzed three sets of iconic buildings/structures that lie along or near the Main Street corridor of the Red Line. Concluding that infrastructure is best read as a fluid line, the scheme proposes a merger between structure and sign. Perhaps rather modest in scale, the scheme eschews monumental scale in favor of direct bodily engagement with the structure. - As of 03.29.12, no decision has been made on the competition. - Fullscreen <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-01_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="1024" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-01_o.jpg" data-mid="15739671" caption="Rendering © 2012 Nephew / www.nephew-la.com" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-02.jpg" width="432" height="768" width_o="432" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-02_o.jpg" data-mid="15739672" caption="Rendering © 2012 Nephew / www.nephew-la.com" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-03.jpg" width="432" height="768" width_o="432" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-03_o.jpg" data-mid="15739673" caption="Rendering © 2012 Nephew / www.nephew-la.com" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-04_640.jpg" width="640" height="436" width_o="1128" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-04_o.jpg" data-mid="15739675" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-05_640.jpg" width="640" height="436" width_o="1128" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-05_o.jpg" data-mid="15739676" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-06_640.jpg" width="640" height="167" width_o="1128" height_o="295" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-06_o.jpg" data-mid="15739679" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-07_640.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="1024" height_o="576" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-07_o.jpg" data-mid="15739680" caption="Rendering © 2012 Nephew / www.nephew-la.com" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-08_640.jpg" width="640" height="436" width_o="1128" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-08_o.jpg" data-mid="15739681" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-09_640.jpg" width="640" height="436" width_o="1128" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload38.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/3062234/houston-central-station-09_o.jpg" data-mid="15739684" border="0" align="left"/> Houston Houston's light rail system has, like other North American cities using this relatively new infrastructure, helped transform the identity of, if only... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Awards http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Awards Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:53 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2740711 NEIL DENARI 2012Stars of Design Award / Pacific Design Center 2011AIA/LA Gold Medal 2010Interior Design Hall of Fame / Interior Design Magazine 2009USA California Community Foundation Fellow / United States Artists Organization 2008Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York 2002Richard Recchia Award for Architecture, National Academy of Design, New York 2002Samuel F.B. Morse Medal for Architecture, National Academy of Design, New York 2000Distinguished Alumnus, University of Houston, College of Architecture 1995Emerging Voices / Architectural League of New York 198640 Under 40 1986Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1986Young Architects Forum / Architectural League of New York 1984Young Architects Forum / Architectural League of New York NMDA 2012Merit Award for HL23 / New York AIA 2011Honor Award and Best in Show for HL23 / LA AIA Architecture, Built Category 2011Honor Award and Best in Show for No Mass House / LA AIA Next LA Category 2011HL23 Best Tall Building Americas Finalist / Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2010HL23 Visionary Building of the Year / New York Society of American Registered Architects 2008Honor Award for HL23 / LA AIA Next LA Category 2007Honor Award for MUFG Bank, Nagoya, Japan /LA AIA, Architecture, Built Category 2007Honor Award for Endeavor Talent Agency and Screening Room / National AIA Interiors Category 2006Honor Award for Endeavor Screening Room / LA AIA Interiors Category 2005Honor Award for l.a. Eyeworks / National AIA, Interiors Category 2005Citation for Troia / Progressive Architecture Awards 2004Honor Award for Endeavor Offices / LA AIA, Interiors Category 2003ContractWorld Award 2004 for l.a. Eyeworks 2003Honor Award for l.a. Eyeworks / LA AIA, Interiors Category 1997Design Distinction: 43rd ID Magazine Awards for Interrupted Projections NEIL DENARI 2012Stars of Design Award / Pacific Design Center 2011AIA/LA Gold Medal 2010Interior Design Hall of Fame / Interior Design Magazine 2009USA California... http://www.nmda-inc.com/Publications http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/Publications Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:18 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2740707 BOOKS BY NMDA - FACTICITY - / In progress. 800 Pages. Published by AADCU, Beijing. > The title of this multigraphic book, Facticity, is used to describe two fundamental aspects of the work of NMDA: 1) the precision of its material life, both built and virtual and 2) its intentional conceptual open endedness, i.e. that in direct contrast to the finitude of this precision, facticity also refers to phenomena that resist explanation. Between facthood (indisputable facts) and ideality (an unobtainable pristine condition), the term captures a rather radical spectrum of intellectual and visual speculation that makes architecture believable as a functioning experiment. For an office that is obsessed with finish and clarity, of a sort of graphic immediacy, NMDA are also equally fascinated by and strive to make work that resists immediate gratification. With extensive documentation of 45 projects and 10 essays, all authored by Neil Denari, the book explores the ways in which the concept of facticity both clarifies and problematizes the work of NMDA. - <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/Facticity frontcover.jpg" width="640" height="470" width_o="640" height_o="470" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/Facticity frontcover_o.jpg" data-mid="16105567" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/Facticity backcover-01.jpg" width="640" height="466" width_o="640" height_o="466" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/Facticity backcover-01_o.jpg" data-mid="16105568" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/03-Adidas layout 640.jpg" width="640" height="404" width_o="640" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/03-Adidas layout 640_o.jpg" data-mid="15820298" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/04-Avigonon layout 640.jpg" width="640" height="404" width_o="640" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/04-Avigonon layout 640_o.jpg" data-mid="15820303" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/05-Fluoroscape layout 640.jpg" width="640" height="404" width_o="640" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/05-Fluoroscape layout 640_o.jpg" data-mid="15820304" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/06-neu layout 640.jpg" width="640" height="404" width_o="640" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/06-neu layout 640_o.jpg" data-mid="15820306" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/07-VG layout 640.jpg" width="640" height="404" width_o="640" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/07-VG layout 640_o.jpg" data-mid="15820307" border="0" align="left"/> PREVIOUS MONOGRAPHS - - Gyroscopic Horizons, Thames & Hudson (1999) | Interrupted Projections, TOTO Publications (1996) <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/06-Gyroscopic-Horizons-Interrupted-Projections.jpg" width="640" height="397" width_o="640" height_o="397" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/06-Gyroscopic-Horizons-Interrupted-Projections_o.jpg" data-mid="15812113" border="0" align="left"/> INTERNATIONAL MEDIA - NMDA has been extensively covered in the global design press, both online and in print. Below is a selection of cover stories on the work of NMDA and Neil Denari. - <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/01-B1-Magazine-IW-Magazine.jpg" width="640" height="415" width_o="640" height_o="415" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/01-B1-Magazine-IW-Magazine_o.jpg" data-mid="15812093" caption="B1 Magazine Vol 3 / Issue 13 (2008) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; IW Magazine No 62 (2008)" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/02-Syracuse-Architecture-Monitor-Magazine.jpg" width="640" height="405" width_o="640" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/02-Syracuse-Architecture-Monitor-Magazine_o.jpg" data-mid="15812098" caption="Syracuse Architecture - Graduate Sessions (2008) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; Monitor Magazine Issue 38 (2006)" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/03-Cool-Shops-Los-Angeles-Cool-Shops.jpg" width="640" height="484" width_o="640" height_o="484" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/03-Cool-Shops-Los-Angeles-Cool-Shops_o.jpg" data-mid="15812102" caption="Cool Shops - Los Angeles, teNeues Publishing (2005) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; Cool Shops, Links Publications (2004)" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/04-AIT-Magazine-Frame-Magazine.jpg" width="640" height="409" width_o="640" height_o="409" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/04-AIT-Magazine-Frame-Magazine_o.jpg" data-mid="15812106" caption="AIT Magazine 3 (2003) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; Frame Magazine No 28 (2002)" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/05-Shops-Limited-Magazine-Frame-Magazine.jpg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/05-Shops-Limited-Magazine-Frame-Magazine_o.jpg" data-mid="15812109" caption="Shops Limited Magazine No 2 (2002) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; Frame Magazine No 19 (2001)" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/07-Prototypo-Recent-Work.jpg" width="640" height="428" width_o="640" height_o="428" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740707/07-Prototypo-Recent-Work_o.jpg" data-mid="15812117" caption="Prototypo No 001 (1999) &lt;b&gt;|&lt;/b&gt; Recent Work, BAC/ESP Publications (1996)" border="0" align="left"/> BOOKS BY NMDA - FACTICITY - / In progress. 800 Pages. Published by AADCU, Beijing. > The title of this multigraphic book, Facticity, is used to describe two... http://www.nmda-inc.com/News http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:11:44 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2740698 05.30.13 As part of the Pacific Standard Time Series of Getty sponsored exhibitions and events, Neil Denari will participate in a panel discussion entitled, "Why LA?" moderated by chief curator of design Wim Dewitt. Panelists will include Peter Noever, Craig Hodgetts, and Hitoshi Abe. 05.22.13 As part of the Pacific Standard Time Series of Getty sponsored exhibitions and events, Neil Denari will moderate a symposium on the future of urban design. Panelists will include Joseph Kosinski, director of the recently released sci-fi epic, OBLIVION, and Greg Lindsay, co-author of the book Aerotropolis. The event will be held at the Creative Artists Agency Screening room in Century City, 6:30pm. For more info: Extreme Ideas UCLA / AUD 05.14.13 TOP FLOOR, a new short film directed by Aaron David DeFazio, premiered at SXSW 2013. NMDA's project HL23 is featured in the film. To see the film, click here and search Top Floor: Click here 04.18.13 SMOOTH MATTER / Bernhard Sommer X Neil Denari, will open at the Schindler Garage, Los Angeles @ 6pm. The installation is an examination in the properties of complex yet coherent geometry. For more info: MAK Center and Bernhard Sommer <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/2013-04-17-13-09-54-ps_640.jpg" width="640" height="320" width_o="900" height_o="450" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/2013-04-17-13-09-54-ps_o.jpg" data-mid="30295610" border="0" align="left"/> 04.18.13 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled, "Appeariences", at the Savannah College of Art and Design, 6pm in the SCAD Museum Auditorium. 04.16.13 Neil Denari will participate in a panel discussion on the state of Sustainability within architecture and urbanism at the USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles. Moderated by Alice Kimm, panelists will include Michael Speaks, Thom Mayne, and Ralph Knowles. 03.12.13 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled, "The Fugitive State of Architecture", at Shi Jian University in Taipei. 03.08.13 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled, "The Fugitive State of Architecture", at Hong Kong University. 02.21.13 Neil Denari will be in conversation with Thom Mayne at San Francisco MOMA as part of the opening events for "Lebbeus Woods, Architect", a retrospective of his 40 year career. 01.28.13 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled, "OVER THE TOP", at USC at 7pm in the Jin D. Wong Auditorium. It concerns the development and production of the envelope systems of HL23. 11.28.12 Neil Denari will present his latest lecture, "FACTICITY", at SCI_Arc at 7pm in the Main Space. 11.10.12 Neil Denari will participate in a panel discussion at the Annenberg Beach House as part of a three day event for Los Angeles based GSD Alumni. The panel will discuss the effects of digital technology on the current state of architecture. 10.09.12 Neil Denari will participate in a two day event, the Mayor's Conference on Design. Hosted by Dean Michael Speaks and the University of Kentucky School of Architecture, the discussion will include presentations by 8 US Mayors and 8 design professionals. 09.15.12 NMDA has won FIRST PRIZE in the international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Service Project. A jury of seven, two American and five Taiwanese, selected NMDA's project from a strong set of five finalists. NMDA collaborated with Fei & Cheng Associates of Taipei who will act as executive architects for the project. Also working with NMDA are the Los Angeles office of Thornton Tomasetti for structural and facade engineering and ARUP Hong Kong for logistics, sustainability, and building services. Work on the project will commence immediately with a planned opening of the Terminal set for 2015 and the balance of the site in 2017. 08.10.12 HL23 has won an American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. 08.05.12 The Morphosis led six office team has been selected as one of three finalists of the new campus for the Chinese University of Hong Kong. NMDA has contributed designs for the Student Union and the primary campus Auditorium. 07.20.12 NMDA has been selected as one of five finalists for the second stage of the international competition for the New Keelung Harbor Port Terminal Complex in Keelung, Taiwan. Located at the Northern tip of the island, Keelung is 20 kilometers from Taipei. The project includes a new terminal and a 57,000 square meter office program for the Harbor Authority. The winner will be announced in mid-September. 05.29.12 Artists X Architects, a group show curated by Tibby Rothman, will include a collaborative work by artist Billy Al Bengston and Neil Denari. The show will be held at Joe's Restaurant at 1023 Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice. Opening reception is June 5, 6-8pm. 05.29.12 Neil Denari and NMDA have been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for the completion of their ongoing mulitgraphic book project, FACTICITY. NMDA wishes to thank the Graham for their generous support of this work. For more info: Graham Foundation 05.29.12 The World Architecture Festival has selected Neil Denari as a judge for their Superjury to select the WAF Building of the Year. Neil will also lecture during the Festival on the work of NMDA. The WAF will be held this year in Singapore, October 3-5, 2012. For more info: World Architecture Festival 05.24.12 Neil Denari will lecture at the Seattle Central Library @ 6pm. Entitled "What’s the Problem?"When we as a global culture present a problem to politicians, thinkers, scientists, etc., we demand a solution to it. When architects, thinkers, scientists, etc. present a problem to culture, quite often culture did not know about this problem as it exists mainly within a particular field. This lecture will outline the similarities and differences in these types of problems and how they unite the private and public discourses of architecture. For more info: space.city 05.03.12 We are pleased to announce that a collaborative team of architects led by LA based Morphosis and including NMDA, has been selected as one of six teams to participate in a competition for the new Shenzen campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The other offices included in the Morphosis team are Scogin/Elam, Jacob+MacFarland, Griffin Enright, and Tom Wiscombe. Submission for the first phase of design is due in mid June. For more info: Shenzhen Center For Design 04.26.12 Neil Denari will lecture at the New York Institute of Technology. Entitled "Over the Top", the lecture will explain the design and construction of HL23. 04.25.12 Neil Denari to lecture at the Yale Club in New York. 04.01.12 NMDA's Alan-Voo House will be part of the Spring Home Tour conducted by the LA AIA. 03.26.12 NMDA has begun concept design on a 145,000 square meter office and shopping complex in Yichang, China. Yichang is located in the Hubei province on the Yangtze River near the Three Gorges Dam. 03.21.12 Neil Denari will receive a Stars of Design Award for Architecture from Charles Cohen and the Pacific Design Center. 03.17.12 Neil Denari is among 300 artists invited to participate in INCOGNITO, the Santa Monica Museum of Art annual Fundraiser. More than 650 8" x 10" works will be for sale for a fixed cost of $350 each. <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/Incognito 1.jpg" width="640" height="507" width_o="640" height_o="507" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/Incognito 1_o.jpg" data-mid="15847518" caption="zen city 01 (inverse) | Image © 2012 Neil M. Denari" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/Incognito 2.jpg" width="640" height="507" width_o="640" height_o="507" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/5/175955/2740698/Incognito 2_o.jpg" data-mid="15847526" caption="zen city 01 | Image © 2012 Neil M. Denari" border="0" align="left"/> 03.10.12 Neil Denari is among 40 artists, designers, and architects to design wearable art for the A+D Museum Fundraiser Gala. 03.08.12 HL23 has received a Merit Award from this year's New York Chapter AIA Awards program. 03.05.12 Neil Denari will give a lecture at the University of Michigan entitled "Speculative Realism" @ 6:00pm in the Taubman Auditorium. 01.30.12 Neil Denari will participate in a panel discussion on HL23 at Columbia University's GSAPP. 6;30pm in Wood Auditorium. 01.28.12 Neil Denari will give a lecture at the Palm Springs Art Museum entitled "What in the World?" 6:30pm in the Museum's Auditorium. 01.15.12 Neil Denari will give a lecture entitled "Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist" at CONTRACTWORLD in Hannover, Germany. 11:00am. 11.28.11 Neil Denari will give a lecture at the New School in San Diego entitled "Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist" 6:30pm in the first floor lecture hall.. 11.26.11 NMDA has been selected as one of five architects to participate in a competition for the design of Houston's Downtown Central Light Rail Station. Public presentations will be held on January 24, 2012. The announcement of the winner is expected in early March. 11.10.11 Neil Denari will give a lecture at the Congress of Architects in Guadalajara, Mexico. 11.02.11 Neil Denari will give a lecture at the Cultural Center of Tijuana. 11.01.11 NMDA has been commissioned to design the new showroom for TWENTIETH and its founder Stefan Lawrence. The project is the renovation of a 6,000 sf building on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and Gardner near Pan Pacific Park. TWENTIETH is perhaps LA's best known venue for the sale of new and vintage Modern furniture. 10.26.11 NMDA and Neil Denari will receive five awards tonight at the AIA gala of 2011. HL23 and the No Mass House have both won Honor Awards and Best in show for their respective categories. Neil Denari is also being presented with the GOLD MEDAL, the highest honor an individual can receive from the Los Angeles AIA. 10.21.11 Neil Denari will give a lecture entitled "Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist" at the Utah AIA convention. 4pm in the Salt Lake City Convention Center. 10.13.11 Neil Denari will participate in the panel discussion entitled "Judgement" at the Rice University School of Architecture. Others include Ben Van Berkel, Hal Foster, and Markus Miessen. 09.28.11 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled "Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist" at the RPI School of Architecture. 6:00pm. 09.2611 Neil Denari will present a lecture entitled "Solutions to Problems That Don't Exist" at the Washington University School of Architecture. 6:00pm. 07.14.11 NMDA has been commissioned to design a 3 story 33,000 sf speculative office building for the corner of Wilshire and Almont in Beverly Hills. 05.30.13 As part of the Pacific Standard Time Series of Getty sponsored exhibitions and events, Neil Denari will participate in a panel discussion entitled, "Why... http://www.nmda-inc.com/9000-Wilshire-2012-14 http://www.nmda-inc.com/following/nmda-inc.com/9000-Wilshire-2012-14 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:20:40 +0000 Neil M. Denari Architects 2581289 Beverly Hills New project text and images coming soon! - Fullscreen Beverly Hills New project text and images coming soon! -