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Ideas Store Whitechapel , London Photo : Adjaye Associates
Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and |
Culture - Washington DC |
Photo : Alan Karchmer |
Specere Kielder , Scotland |
Photo : James T M Towill |
Current projects include a new home for The Studio Museum in Harlem , New York in collaboration with Cooper Robertson ; 130 William , a high-rise residential tower in New York ’ s financial district ; the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in Dakar , Senegal ; the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton , New Jersey in collaboration with Cooper Robertson ; the George Street Sydney Plaza in Sydney , Australia ; The Abrahamic Family House , an interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi ; Winter Park Library and Events Center in Winter Park , Florida ; the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre , London led by Adjaye Associates , with Ron Arad Architects as Memorial Architect , and Gustafson Porter + Bowman as Landscape Architect ; the Royal Benin Museum in Benin City , Nigeria ; the National Cathedral of Ghana in Accra ; and the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library in Johannesburg , South Africa .
On hearing the news that he will receive the Royal Gold Medal in 2021 , Sir David Adjaye said : “ It ’ s incredibly humbling and a great honour to have my peers recognise the work I have developed with my team and its contribution to the field over the past 25 years . Architecture , for me , has always been about the creation of beauty to edify all peoples around the world equally and to contribute to the evolution of the craft . The social impact of this discipline has been and will continue to be the guiding force in the experimentation that informs my practice . A heartfelt and sincere moment of gratitude and thanks to all the people who supported the journey to get to this moment .” RIBA President Alan Jones said : “ It was my absolute pleasure and honour to chair the committee and be involved in selecting Sir David Adjaye as the 2021 Royal Gold Medallist .
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