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Adjaye Associates
Finalist, PHI Contemporary International Architecture Competition
→ See their Strategic Proposal for Stage 1
→ See their Architectural Proposal for Stage 2
Watch their video presentation
Watch their video presentation
"The proposal's radicality is predicated on a new type of institutional composition in which the institution is not an object designed to fit a specific set of criteria but, instead, is a place defined by an assemblage of the urban condition of Old Montreal."
—David Adjaye, an excerpt from their Proposal for PHI Contemporary
ABOUT THE FIRM
Based in Accra & London & New York
Since establishing Adjaye Associates in 2000, Sir David Adjaye OBE has crafted a global team that is multicultural and stimulated by the broadest possible cultural discourse. The practice has studios in Accra, London, and New York with work spanning the globe. Adjaye Associates’ most well-known commission to date is the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), opened in 2016 on the National Mall in Washington DC and was named “Cultural Event of the Year” by The New York Times.
Further projects range in scale from private houses, bespoke furniture collections, product design, exhibitions, and temporary pavilions to major arts centers, civic buildings, and master plans. Renowned for an eclectic material and color palette, and a capacity to offer a rich civic experience, the buildings differ in form and style, yet are unified by their ability to generate new typologies and to reference a wide cultural discourse.
The firm has received widespread recognition for its contributions to architecture. Adjaye was announced the winner of the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, considered one of the highest honors in British architecture for significant contributions to the field internationally. In his award citation, the 2021 RIBA Honours Committee explained, "Through his work as an architect Sir David Adjaye speaks confidently across cultures, disciplines, politics, and continents. His body of work is global and local, finely attuned as it reflects and responds to context and community, climate, and culture.”