David Adjaye, Falling Starchitect

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( Friday, July 7 street view [David Adjaye, Falling Starchitect]( Celebrity architects are propped up by a hive of workers. His may undo him. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos Getty Images/Shutterstock Until this week, David Adjaye was not just the world’s most famous Black architect, or African-born architect, or British architect under 60. He was also a certified heroic genius, virtually the only one left in architecture whose reputation was still ascendant. He had a knighthood, much quoted presidential praise, and the trophy case to prove it. Adjaye had not yet won the Pritzker Prize — it must have stung when his contemporary, the Burkina Faso–born Francis Keré, did last year — but it would likely have rolled in soon enough. The odious and misleading term starchitect, invented for a cohort of his elders like Frank Gehry (now 94) and Norman Foster (88), applied comfortably to Adjaye. Although his firm, Adjaye Associates, employs dozens of architects spread out across offices in London, New York, and Accra, the work it produces is so strongly identified with one man that it seemed to have sprung from his imagination alone. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Brooklyn’s First Supertall Gets a Very Breezy Basketball Court The SHoP-designed amenity will be on the tower’s “wind floor” and open to the elements 629 feet up.]( By Clio Chang [The IHOP Kingpin vs. the American Revolutionaries When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his pancake empire to upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war.]( By Reeves Wiedeman [The Look Book Goes to Once Upon a One More Time Britney Spears fans came from all over the country for opening weekend of a play inspired by her music.]( By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell [The Best Plant Stores in New York Plant stores for cheap ferns and collectible cacti.]( By Kitty Guo [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved