2024-11-21T19:32:34-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150129831/david-adjaye-s-red-concrete-art-museum-ruby-city-to-open-in-san-antonio-in-october Mackenzie Goldberg 2019-04-02T15:06:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/28/28726f73299523aff341f7bc1a790c26.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/adjayeassociates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Adjaye</a>'s ruby-red art museum in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/382731/san-antonio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">San Antonio, Texas</a> is set to open to the public in October 2019. It is the Ghanian-British architect's first project in Texas. Famous for his behemoth buildings, Ruby City&mdash;which is <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/david-adjaye-ruby-city-art-center-open-san-antonio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">described</a> by Adjaye himself as a "very shy building"&mdash;offers a quiet stop in between his career-defining <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/767550/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a> in Washington, DC and his next two projects, the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1267862/uk-holocaust-memorial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.K Holocaust Memorial</a> and the National Cathedral of Ghana.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/93/93bfc850f33b295b6076ea668a2ecfeb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/93/93bfc850f33b295b6076ea668a2ecfeb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Ruby City. &copy; Dror Baldinger. Courtesy of Ruby City and Adjaye Associates.</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/94/944e37609811ccaf59373a535fee5e42.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/94/944e37609811ccaf59373a535fee5e42.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Ruby City. &copy; Dror Baldinger. Courtesy of Ruby City and Adjaye Associates.</figcaption></figure><p>Nevertheless, the blushed building offers itself as a crown jewel to a Texan city looking to reactive itself after decades of sprawl. The art museum is designed with this urban future in mind and will be part of a growing campus, the brainchild of philanthropist and heiress to the Pace Foods fortune Linda Pace, whose meditation garden, Chris Park, and exhibitio...</p>