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3 days ago
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Harlem's Studio Museum has set an opening date this fall for its major new building
After being closed for construction since 2018, the Studio Museum in Harlem will reopen on Saturday, November 15 in a new seven-floor, 82,000-square-foot building on West 125th Street. To celebrate the grand opening day, the museum will host a community event with free admission and activities for all ages. The building, custom-designed for the museum, will house art exhibitions, educational opportunities, program spaces and an expansive lobby. For its first show, the Studio Museum will present the work of the late sculptor Tom Lloyd; it's a full-circle moment as his work was part of the institution's opening back in 1968. Another debut show will draw from the museum's vast collection, underscoring the museum's role as a steward of art by artists of African descent. During the building's first year, expect to see newly commissioned site-specific artworks, including a sonic sculptural installation by Camille Norment composed of brass tubing and featuring a chorus of voices. Also look for a wall-mounted, metal-based installation by Christopher Myers that envisions an intergenerational community of hybrid of figures gathered in a fantastical landscape. Iconic Studio Museum artworks will be reinstalled, including David Hammons's work inspired by the pan-African flag; Glenn Ligon's neon wall sculpture "Give Us a Poem;" and Houston E. Conwill's seven bronze time capsules. As for the building itself, its architecture was inspired by brownstones, churches and bustling sidewalks of Harlem. For example, a set of glass doors, which can be opened in different configurations, welcomes people to descending steps mean to evoke the stoops of Harlem's brownstones. The steps can be used as benches for watching lectures, performances, and films—or simply for relaxing. The design has more than doubled space for exhibitions and the artist-in-residence program. Plus, indoor and outdoor public space will increase by almost 70-percent. Furniture by Black creatives will populate the building. The museum will also feature custom-made tables constructed using beams from the museum's former home. A rooftop terrace promises striking views of the neighborhood. The building's design is being led by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson serving as executive architect. To fund the project, The Studio Museum raised more than $300 million from museum trustees, the city, foundations, corporate partners and individual donors. The Studio Museum dates back to 1968 when it was founded by a diverse group of artists, community activists and philanthropists who sought to address the near-complete exclusion of Black artists from mainstream museums, commercial art galleries, academic institutions and scholarly publications. It continues that mission today as a nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. Location, hours and pricing The Studio Museum in Harlem is located at 144 West 125th Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (Seventh Avenue). It will be open Wednesday through Sunday, from 11am to 6pm, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday, from 11am to 9pm. Admission rates are offered as a suggestion, with Sundays free for everyone. Suggested rates are $16 for adults and $9 for seniors aged 65+, students, and visitors with disabilities (care partners are free). Admission is free for children sixteen and under. Tickets can purchased online at or at the museum.
Business Mayor
21-05-2025
- Health
- Business Mayor
adjaye associates unveils rammed earth children's cancer research centre for ghana
The design for an International Children's Cancer Research Centre, recently unveiled by Adjaye Associates, begins with the land. Set to perch along the eastern slopes of the Atewa Range in Kyebi, Ghana, the proposed ICCRC is grounded in its setting before it rises in form. From the approach, the landscape of dense forests and filtered sunlight sets the tone. It is this atmosphere of continuity that guides the healthcare facility's masterplan, which holds the promise of both care and research for West Africa's youngest cancer patients. The center is designed as a holistic campus for the Wish4Life Foundation. Adjaye Associates organizes the 225,000-square-meter site into a network of buildings that hold more than function. Each structure — hospital, research lab, training institute, family residence, and chapel — participates in a larger rhythm of movement and repose. The spaces are open to the air and shaded from the sun, responding to the region's climate as well as its cultural logics. The unimposing architecture settles into the terrain with a clarity that seeks to invite trust. visualizations © Adjaye Associates adjaye associates draws from Akan Traditions With the International Children's Cancer Research Centre, the architects at Adjaye Associates draw from the Akan worldview. This proposes that illness results from a disturbance of personal, communal, and environmental harmony. Courtyards shaped like the Fihankra, or traditional compound, organize the campus into nested zones of rest and interaction. These enclosures hold the cadence of daily life, offering open-air rooms for conversation, reflection, and retreat. In Adjaye Associates' design, care is inseparable from architecture. The complex will be built from earth — rammed, pressed, and baked into slabs and bricks. Timber and clay, shaped by local hands, bring continuity between building and community. The Welcome Centre greets patients and families with the soft tactility of earth walls, while concrete screens in clinical zones reference Kente cloth, a gesture to ancestral pattern and meaning. Each material carries its own history into the future. Adjaye Associates unveils a cancer research center as a new model for pediatric care in Ghana A new precedent for a Cancer Research Centre Adjaye Associates follows a low-energy design ethos with its International Children's Cancer Research Centre. The team employs passive cooling techniques, photovoltaic systems, and orientation strategies specific to the site. These decisions are embedded in the architecture, not appended to it, forming an infrastructure of resilience. The goal is to create a self-sustaining facility that can adapt to environmental change while maintaining a high standard of care. Here, a different model for pediatric healthcare is proposed. It refuses the imported template of compartmentalized buildings and anonymous corridors. Instead, it cultivates a campus in which care, learning, worship, and research support one another in spatial continuity. This vision expands the definition of a hospital, suggesting that architecture itself can foster dignity, belonging, and healing. A presentation of the proposal is currently exhibited at the Time Space Existence show during the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. It will be housed in Palazzo Bembo through November, and places Ghana on an international stage. the ICCRC is sited on the forested slopes of the Atewa Range in Kyebi Read More The Zillow App Will Now Show a Home's Climate Risks the campus integrates clinical research, educational, and residential functions into one connected whole materials such as rammed earth, brick, and timber are locally-sourced and crafted by local builders
Arab News
28-02-2025
- General
- Arab News
What We Are Reading Today: ‘Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture'
Author: Pascale Sablan By shedding light on overlooked figures in architecture, 'Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture,' published this year, makes an urgent and necessary contribution to the field. At about 200 pages, this richly detailed book by Pascale Sablan, award-winning architect and CEO of Adjaye Associates, presents an anthology of diverse designers who have reshaped the built environment. The book features essays, project case studies and a much-needed deep dive into architectural typologies, spanning residential, institutional and master planning. Sablan, a millennial architect from New York, has spent her career advocating for equity and inclusion in architecture. 'Women and designers of color play a crucial role in realizing many of the world's greatest architectural projects, yet our recognition is still significantly lacking,' she rightfully states. Through this book, she seeks to correct that oversight, offering an expansive look at how diverse perspectives have long shaped the field. The book highlights 40 groundbreaking US-based and international projects, emphasizing themes of dignity, sustainability and social justice. It also explores architecture's historical role in systemic injustices such as redlining and housing discrimination while illustrating how inclusive design can lead to meaningful change. 'When I started this career, I had no idea how many women and people of color were behind the iconic buildings that I have come to know and love,' she states. Blending insightful essays, case studies, and profiles of 47 architects and designers from diverse backgrounds, 'Greatness' underscores how architecture can serve as a tool for empowerment. The featured architects tackle some of the industry's most pressing challenges, including housing injustice, environmental sustainability and community development. She ensures that some of these vital voices are finally highlighted. While not a comprehensive list, the book serves as a crucial guide, urging readers to recognize these architects as the 'greats' she sees them to be. Released during Black History Month in the US, 'Greatness' challenges the industry to rethink who gets to be called 'great' in architecture and how we can all expand upon our definition. Easy to read, easy to reference and easy to look at, it is a great addition to your coffee table collection.
