Studio Museum Harlem reconnects with the spirit of its streets
Adjaye Associates’ Studio Museum Harlem embraces its urban surroundings to champion creativity from African descent in New York and beyond.
Twelve museums and cultural architecture projects openings of 2024
An art space carved in a grain silo in Norway, the new Nintendo Museum in Kyoto and the Shakespeare Museum in London feature in the 12 museums opening in 2024.
Laboratories of the Future: the African perspective takes centre stage at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
Ten brave projects exploring the decolonisation and decarbonization of Africa and the African diaspora countries at the ‘Laboratories of the future’ main exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
24 architectural museums and cultural venues to look forward in 2021: from Tutankhamen to Aviici!
Discover 24 architectural museums opening in 2021: from Kengo Kuma’s Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark to Jean Nouvel’s Pudong Museum of Art in Shanghai, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza and the Aviici Experience in Stockholm.
David Adjaye’s Abrahamic Family House features multi-faith temples “with powerful plutonic forms”
A mosque, a church, a synagogue and a secular visitor pavilion welcome visitors of all faiths at The Abrahamic Family House, an inter religious complex designed as a platform for understanding and coexistence between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
David Adjaye unveils first-ever Ghana Pavilion at Venice Biennale
The first Ghana Pavilion in Venice features artists across three generations capturing the culture and the diasporas of the nation. British-Ghanan Architect David Adjaye has created an elliptically shaped pavilion imbued with the country’s colours and textures.
David Adjaye and Ron Arad’s winning proposal for London Holocaust memorial was conceived as a “park of Britain’s conscience”
London Holocaust Memorial will feature 23 tall bronze fins rising next to the House of Parliament leading to a submerged space where visitors can explore and intimately reflect on antisemitism, extremism, Islamophobia, racism, homophobia and other forms of hatred and prejudice in society today.
Illuminated River: visionary urban lighting proposals for London bridges on the Thames
Illuminated River: beams of light shooting in the sky and tidal luminous symphonies tuning London with the rhythm of Nature, river powered world lamp-posts emerging from water and more… International architects and artists propose permanent installations for the Thames.
Making Africa
The Making Africa exhibition at Vitra Design Museum showcases the work of new generations of artists, designers and architects and offers a new vantage point on the continent suggesting solutions for worldwide relevance issues.