#davidadjaye

[ilcontephotography]

Imam Al-Tayeb Mosque - Abrahamic Family House, by David Adjaye / Adjaye Associates (2023).

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

© Roberto Conte (2024)

[normally0]

Rivington Place - David Adjaye “Leo’s attraction was that he was a kind of perverse, original irritant. But against this we have ample evidence (through his drawings) of a simple human understanding and humour… His mind must have been beautiful.”

[drownmeinbeauty]

A PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG MAN

King Pleasure is an immense, immersive exhibit about art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988 at the age of twenty-seven. His sisters Lisane and Jeanine chose works to display here from those bequeathed to them, wrote the wall texts, and directed Architect David Adjaye in the installation design. Not surprisingly, the result is very personal.

The show, that fills the ground floor of the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, leads one through Basquiat's career chronologically. It includes literal recreations of his childhood home in Boerum Hill and his adult studio on Grand Street. Video monitors play interviews with the artist's family members and associates. We hear about Basquiat pranking a babysitter as a boy, deciding to become an artist as a teen, and achieving world celebrity as a young adult. His dealer Anina Nosei tells how, on a flight to Paris, he left his first class seat to join her in economy. There's plenty of sentimentality in these stories but not much about the art. What kind of artistic training did Basquiat have? Why did he use oil sticks rather than paintbrushes? How did he transform a personal syntax of words and symbols, almost alchemically, into canvases of orchestral grandeur?

The Brant Foundation opened in 2018 with a display of large Basquiat canvases, the ones sold through his galleries, and what a glorious spectacle it was. They were bold and seductive, alive and mysterious, rich with narrative. They held their own in the elegant, super-sized spaces of the gallery.

The works in King Pleasure are mostly smaller in size and ambition; many are studies for the large canvases sold to his dealers. They are presented here as artifacts, not art. Basquiat's siblings want to capture their brother's humanity. I can understand their desire to control the narrative but the narrative, however dramatic, holds limited interest. The paintings hold much more.

Photograph © Ivane Katamashvili .

[lukasnovo]

My favourite Harlem new-build — David Adjaye's Sugar Hill!⁠ It contains 124 affordable apartments, museum and education centre. It might look a bit harsh at the first glance, but it was developed in close cooperation with the local community and fits surprisingly well into its surrounding. Just across the road stand the infamous Polo Grounds Towers.⁠

[aic-design]

William O. Lockridge Library, Washington, D.C., Model, David Adjaye, 2015, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society Size: 33 × 130 × 100 cm (13 × 51 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.) Medium: Mixed media

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229276/

[privateerclothing]

When your new apartment comes with an Aston Martin DBX and can be optioned with an Aston branded simulator room...🙌🏻 📷 @astonmartinlagonda #astonmartin #astonmartinresidences #luxury #luxurylifestyle #luxuryhomes #luxuryarchitecture #luxuryapartments #luxuryapartment #sirdavidadjaye #davidadjaye #architecture #interiordesign #nycapartment #highrise #highriseapartments #simulators #racingsimulator https://www.instagram.com/p/CHPkwUbFs_B/?igshid=o78tfhq8y2go

[bizarrecolumns]

2019 Hugh Ramapolo Masekela Memorial Pavilion / David Adjaye DITORTED COLUMNS #columns #bizarrecolumns #distortedcolumns #davidadjaye #architecture #archilovers #archiporn @adjayeassociates https://www.instagram.com/p/B9lcDKIoTCW/?igshid=hhrh296lj574

[africashowboy]

Accra, Ghana. Monday, March 9, 2020. Street hawker packs up after a long day of breathing polluted air, outwitting berserk motorbikes (okadas) and unruly drivers, standing on her feet for over 8 hours in the scorching sun, hawking cold drinks and sachet water so she can afford to feed her children. Meanwhile, the government is spending millions of dollars to build the most beautiful cathedral since Noah’s Ark. Isn’t this amazing?! Very soon, she can wear her beautiful secondhand clothes and go worship God with the rest of the saints in the new cathedral on Sundays. What a blessed nation we are! What amazing leaders we have! I hope she takes an offering along. “God loves a cheerful giver”. Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkacquah.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2020) www.nanakofiacquah.com. #thisisnotmyfaith #truereligionistotakecareofthevulnerable #shotoniphone #accra #ghana #hawker #streetvendor #sellingonthestreet #poverty #ruralurbanmigration #politics #cathedral #ghana #davidadjaye (at Mallam Junction Interchange) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9jPi3aFURG/?igshid=homm45c327ai

[observationsandreflections]

Reflection: David Adjaye, Dirty house, Chance Street; 2002 . Photograph; Shoreditch, London, February 2016 . #architecture #davidadjaye #dirtyhouse #london #artstudio #apartment #catalogue #visualreference #observations_and_reflections ⠀⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/B11nJBDpxFj/?igshid=1q3mile2pbfpg

[antoniosmour]

#drpdownthelight#davidadjaye#makingmemory#london#designmuseum# (at Hampstead Town) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxK_lxAHf35s9oSdFWGhNc-dB9qMiOpAhRMmzE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x3tnzglr8b9u

[lamir]

Feel at home at #designmuseumlondon #london #davidadjaye #stanleykubrick (presso Design Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/By5k83koXZJ/?igshid=hsz6fkc3vrc6

[ilcontephotography]

Imam Al-Tayeb Mosque - Abrahamic Family House, by David Adjaye / Adjaye Associates (2023).

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

© Roberto Conte (2024)

[normally0]

The London Neom - NEO2

Life is too short not to smile.

[nomadicvision]

Museum of African American History in Washington DC, USA. It was designed by @adjayeassociates • • #nmaahc #davidadjaye #iconicdesign (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs-fvNLB8Lq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1or6owi9s8wt5

[lukasnovo]

David Adjaye's Sugar Hill development in Harlem is absolutely brilliant!⁠ And very photogenic!

[aic-design]

Washington Skeleton Aluminum Side Chair, David Adjaye, 2013, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Gift of Knoll, Inc. Size: 83 × 46 × 51 cm (32 1/2 × 18 × 20 1/4 in.) Medium: Aluminum

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/236421/