“It’s about architecture, but also about memory and history,” Adjaye says when we meet at the site on a cloudy afternoon in mid-May. “I got exactly what I wanted on the exterior, which was a dark, brooding, bronzelike building.” Before going inside, he points out what he calls the “oculus,” a circular raised platform at the west entrance through whose glass windows you can see the room below. “We found out that this spot was once a slave market, right on the Mall,” he says. — Vogue
“The oculus is like a slave pedestal, levitated off the ground. I’ve tried to make every decision here have some history.”
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has just won the commission to turn the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco into a new town for 40,000 people—mostly lower income employees of Silicon Valley.
What project is this? Anyone seen other info about? I even looked on the firm website and couldn't find anything...
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