Architecture is built on the cult of stardom – its #MeToo moment is no surprise
Rowan Moore
David Adjaye steps back from Holocaust memorial after misconduct claims
June 2021
What should Britain’s memorial to the Covid pandemic look like?
Eddie Blake
After the first world war whole villages were built in remembrance, says Eddie Blake, director of architecture and research practice at Studio Palace
November 2020
New museum in Nigeria raises hopes of resolution to Benin bronzes dispute
Artefacts held by British museum and other western institutions were looted by British forces in 1897
October 2020
Notebook
Gold Medal winner David Adjaye deserves a better brief for the Holocaust memorial
Rowan Moore
The outstanding architect’s remit for his latest project is badly flawed
September 2020
'Courage, elegance, grit': architect David Adjaye makes history by winning RIBA award
For the first time in its 173-year history, RIBA awards its gold medal to a black architect – and his best, and strangest, work may be yet to come
October 2019
Observer Design
David Adjaye: ‘Love, death and memory… it’s all in a building’s DNA’
The leading architect on the commissions that changed his mind and approach to work for ever
May 2019
Ghana shakes up art's 'sea of whiteness' with first Venice pavilion
In curving galleries designed by David Adjaye, artists are putting Africa firmly on the biennale map
February 2019
David Adjaye review – planks for the memories
From Martin Luther King to extinct species, the architect has worked on memorials of all kinds – with mixed results, as this exhibition shows
May 2018
Build your own Adjaye: starchitects design catalogue homes
Want a home designed by a top architect on an affordable budget? Entrepreneurs Cube Haus may be moving in on your neighbourhood, with the help of David Adjaye and more
February 2018
Is this woman the next Philip Glass? And why is she wearing a loudspeaker?
Rolex is paying a fortune to pair young artists up with stars like David Adjaye, Joan Jonas and Alfonso Cuarón. Is there a catch? We join their big Berlin jamboree
January 2018
'Already iconic': David Adjaye's black history museum wins design of the year
The British architect and four practices triumph for their bold addition to the Washington DC Mall, inspired by African sculpture and chronicling slave history. Is it a worthy winner?
November 2017
Britain’s colonial crimes deserve a lasting memorial. Here’s why
Afua Hirsch
Find a better site for Holocaust memorial in London
October 2017
The Guardian profile
David Adjaye: Holocaust memorial architect who is feted around world
Team led by David Adjaye to design UK's Holocaust memorial
August 2017
National Portrait Gallery given series of images of famous black Britons
Portfolio given to London gallery by photographer Simon Frederick includes portraits of Dizzee Rascal and Thandie Newton
September 2016
'A glorious story': Obama opens African American Smithsonian museum
President gives soaring speech to thousands at ceremony on National Mall for museum chronicling the relationship between the US and a people it once enslaved
Washington DC’s monument to black history
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, completed by UK architect David Adjaye, opens this week
The Smithsonian's African American museum – a monument to respectability politics
The museum tells the story of black Americans from slavery to the present day – yet in the age of Black Lives Matter, is the whole project a sham?
