To celebrate the news that David Adjaye has won the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for 2021, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most notable buildings designed by the Ghanaian-British architect. Ruby City, USA, 2019 Crimson-coloured concrete panels envelop Ruby City, a contemporary art centre built by Adjaye in San Antonio, Texas, with local firm Alamo
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Scullion Architects has renovated and extended a terraced Victorian house around a plant-filled courtyard for a young family living in Portobello, Dublin. The two-storey dwelling, aptly named Portobello, was updated to introduce light-filled spaces and a connection to nature to help the owners disconnect from the bustle of the Irish capital. To achieve this, Scullion Architects lowered
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Shanghai-based studio Lacime Architects has completed The Wave gallery on the coast of Tianjin, China, which is clad in thousands of aluminium tiles and resembles a giant surge of water. The Wave encompasses 3563 square metres and was designed by Lacime Architects for Shimao as a cultural hub within the Binhai New Area district. Its
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Shanghai-based studio Lacime Architects has completed The Wave gallery on the coast of Tianjin, China, which is clad in thousands of aluminium tiles and resembles a giant surge of water. The Wave encompasses 3563 square metres and was designed by Lacime Architects for Shimao as a cultural hub within the Binhai New Area district. Its
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HofmanDujardin and Schipper Bosch have inserted a steel frame into the expansive production hall of an old nylon factory in Arnhem to create the KB Building offices. The office is housed within one of several 1940s factories on a 90-hectare chemical-industry plant in the Netherlands, which local developer Schipper Bosch is transforming into a campus
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The final video tour published in collaboration with this year’s Open House London festival spotlights Walters Way, a collection of 13 adaptable houses in Lewisham that were self-built by their owners with the help of architect Walter Segal. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the documentary is one of a series of video tours of rarely-published places in the
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The penultimate video tour published in collaboration with Open House London documents Salters’ Hall, the white brutalist livery hall near the Barbican Estate. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the video is one of a series of short documentaries being published on Dezeen during the festival to spotlight unusual and overlooked places in London. Salters’ Hall was
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A cantilevered upper storey with symmetrical, glazed dormers is the focal point of House on 36th, which Beebe Skidmore has completed for a young family relocating to Portland, USA. The sculptural dwelling overhauls an existing one-story cottage on the site that was built in 1945 but required a contemporary update and more space to meet
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MVRDV has completed the bowl-like Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam’s Museumpark, which is covered in mirrored glass and topped by a “rooftop forest”. The art storage facility, which will open to the public in autumn 2021, has been built to house the art collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in one place for
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One of the oldest marketplaces in London, Leadenhall Market, is the focus of this short film published in collaboration with Open House London. The documentary, filmed by Jim Stephenson of Stephenson/BishopFilms, is one of a series of video tours spotlighting unusual places in the city as part of the festival’s 2020 programme. Leadenhall Market is
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