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David Adjaye
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I Went to the Venice Biennale and Saw the Future
Curated by Lesley Lokko, Venice’s Biennale Architettura 2023 challenges dominant narratives of architectural production, shifting focus toward decolonization and decarbonization.
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David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House Is a Monument to Soft Power
The architect’s latest construction in Abu Dhabi is billed as a monument to tolerance and humanity, but a dubious human rights record hangs over the development.
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David Adjaye Is Helping to Shape a Continent
In addition to the District Hospitals project in Ghana, the Ghanaian-British architect has received commissions to design buildings throughout Africa.
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How Ghana’s Radical Experiment in Health Care Is Taking Shape
Adjaye Associates is designing 101 new district hospitals in Ghana, reimagining the healing power of design along the way.
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The Adjaye Associates–Designed Basquiat Exhibition Looks Beyond the Myth of the Icon
The exhibition recreates the artist’s childhood home in Brooklyn, downtown studio, and the Michael Todd VIP Room at New York’s 1980s-era Palladium nightclub.
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David Adjaye Wins RIBA’s 2021 Royal Gold Medal
The British-Ghanian architect is well known for projects around the world including the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.
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This Pink Concrete Boutique by David Adjaye Was a Headache to Light
The Los Angeles fashion outlet The Webster—the fourth installment in our series on lighting design—is a masterclass in dealing with color temperature.
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Inclusivity and Economic Development Emerge as Top Themes at Detroit Month of Design
In looking beyond the city’s central business district, the annual design festival staked out new ground for architecture and design.
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In San Antonio, David Adjaye Designs a New Art Gallery That Takes Cues From Regional Architecture
Ruby City, the new 14,000-square-foot art center, derives its name from the iris-burning hue of its crimson cladding, which includes recycled red glass, pigment, mica, volcanic rock, and other admixtures.
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With a New Design Museum Exhibition, David Adjaye Focuses on Monuments and Memorialization
While it offers some engaging installations and artifacts, David Adjaye: Making Memory struggles to broaden its scope beyond Adjaye's work and interrogate memorialization in today's culture.
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A Closer Look at David Adjaye’s First Skyscraper, Now Rising in Lower Manhattan
For 130 William Street, located in New York's Financial District, Adjaye drew from the neighborhood's historic fabric, while looking to the future of high rise living.
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David Adjaye and Ron Arad to Design New UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Center
The elegant competition-winning Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, to be built alongside the Houses of Parliament in London, will be a “living place.”
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Adjaye Associates Unveils Renderings for New Spy Museum in New York
Called SPYSCAPE, the espionage-themed museum will open this December in Manhattan.
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New Details Revealed for David Adjaye’s Studio Museum Design
Architect David Adjaye discussed his plans for the new 82,000-square-foot Studio Museum building that will rise on Harlem's 125th Street.
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David Adjaye Releases Album of “Sound Architecture”
Architect David Adjaye and his composer brother Peter Adjaye have released an album of "sound architecture."
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David Adjaye on the National Museum of African American History
David Adjaye tells us why The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in September, challenged him like never before.