Designed by Nader Tehrani and Katie Faulkner, the Daniels Faculty’s nearly finished new home at One Spadina Crescent has been receiving accolades from both members of the public (search #OneSpadina on instagram and twitter) and the media (see Architecture Critic Alex Bozikovic’s review in the Globe and Mail).

Tehrani and Faulkner are principals at firm NADAAA. And with the completion of The Daniels Building at One Spadina, the Boston-based firm will have a total of three architecture school buildings under its belt — “a feat that no one else is known to have achieved,” reports Architectural Digest. Tehrani has also designed the buildings for the architecture school at Georgia Tech and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.

From Architectural Digest:

Now he is preparing for the opening of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto on a prominent site with an existing neo-Gothic building, which he incorporated into the new structure. Given that the school offers training in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, Tehrani made sure the building “engaged all three disciplines.” Indeed, like the other two buildings, it invites collaboration; Tehrani says that “with the withering away of architecture as a siloed practice, we need buildings that encourage interdisciplinary thinking.”

As the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union in New York, Tehrani is familiar with the needs of architecture schools and can easily put himself in the place of a dean working with a designer. Close collaboration is key, he tells Architectural Digest.

At One Spadina, NADAAA collaborated with Adamson & Associates (the project’s Architect-of-record), heritage architects ERA, and landscape architects Public Work.

Visit Architectural Digest’s website to read the full article: “Nader Tehrani Is Literally Shaping the Future of Architecture.”

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