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Adjaye receives 2021 Royal Gold Medal in online ceremony
Sir David Adjaye OBE has finally been given the 2021 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in an online ceremony, after being announced as the recipient of the award in September 2020. The medal was presented by Iain Walker, the British High Commissioner to Ghana, in a “virtual celebration” which saw Adjaye in Ghana linked with RIBA President Alan Jones in London, tributes from dignitaries around the world, and a global audience. The Ghanaian-British architect has received international attention for an “exceptional body of work over 25 years,” said RIBA. Drawing on influences ranging from “contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities,” his completed projects range from private houses, exhibitions and furniture design, through to major cultural buildings and city masterplans. From the start of his career Adjaye has combined practice with teaching in schools of architecture in the
UK and the US, including professorships at the universities of Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Princeton. His practice, Adjaye Associates, was founded in 2000 and today has studios in Accra, London and New York, with projects across the world, including the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and Culture in Washington DC (completed 2017). Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New
Year Honours, following an OBE in 2007. As a student, he won the 1993 RIBA Bronze Medal, and in 2006 his Idea Store Whitechapel was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year. Adjaye has won RIBA International Awards for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2008) and the Francis Gregory Library and William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library in Washington DC (both 2013). The 2021 Royal Gold Medal selection committee, chaired by RIBA President Alan
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Jones, comprised architects Lesley Lokko, Dorte Mandrup, and Shelley McNamara (whose practice Grafton Architects won the 2020 Gold Medal), as well as structural engineer Professor Hanif Kara.
EDUCATION
BDP school restoration makes Scottish Design Awards shortlist
Ayr Grammar primary school, designed by BDP’s Glasgow studio, has been shortlisted in the annual Scottish Design Awards. The sensitively restored historic building, located on the edge of the 17th century ‘Citadel’ of Ayr, is one of six buildings that made the shortlist in the ‘education building & project’ category. The new education hub offers a
nursery, a primary school, a Community Arts Centre, and a new home for the Ayrshire Archives and Registry which also houses the Ayrshire fine art collection. The full refurbishment was carried out following the move of Ayr Academy to the new
BDP-designed school at the Craigie Campus in Ayr in 2017. Lindsey Mitchell, architect director at BDP Glasgow Studio said: “It is great to see a restoration project making the shortlist in this year’s Scottish Design Awards. Ayr Grammar Primary School is a great example of our approach to the restoration of historic buildings and how their reuse can be relevant to contemporary education, providing spaces that deliver both academic and social benefits to the wider community.” The winners of the Scottish Design
Awards will be announced in an online ceremony to be broadcast live on 15 July.
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