Adjaye Associates designs mass-timber building covered in plants for Toronto's waterfront
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a plant-covered building called Timber House as part of a developement on Toronto's waterfront that will include buildings by Alison Brooks Architects and Henning Larsen.
Set back from the waterfront, the long and narrow Timber House will reportedly be one of the largest residential mass-timber structures in Canada, when it completes.
Set to contain affordable housing units as well as homes for senior citizens, the building's facade will be crisscrossed by narrow beams and have patios for greenery.
It has been announced as part of the Quayside development in Toronto, alongside structures by Alison Brooks Architects and Danish studio Henning Larsen.
Adjaye Associate's mass-timber building (top) will be built as part of Toronto's Quayside development (above)
Designed for developers Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf, Quayside will include five towers, urban green space, and cultural buildings dedicated to the local Indigenous nation.
It will occupy 12 acres along the lakefront of the Canadian city.
Timber House will have rooftop gardens and greenhouses
According to Waterfront Toronto, a governmental organisation leading the development of the site, Quayside will be "the first all-electric, zero-carbon community at this scale".
"We set out to make Quayside the kind of community that meaningfully improves the lives of its residents, neighbours and visitors," said George Zegarac, president of Waterfront Toronto.
An urban forest between the buildings will be a car-free zone
The proposal includes more than 800 units of affordable housing across all of the buildings.
In addition to Adjaye Associate's Timber House, Quayside will include Western Curve, an Alison Brook Architects-designed tower that rises up from slender arches. Sited directly next to Western Curve will be Dutch studio Henning Larsen's tower called The Overstorey.
Alison Brooks' Western Curve will be covered in round balconies and plants
A community forest by SLA Landscape Architects will occupy the space between the narrow Timber House and the row of towers. This two-acre space will provide "a network of car-free green spaces for residents and visitors".
The design for teh developments cultural buildings has not yet been revealed, but it will be geared towards celebrating the Indigenous community.
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"As Host First Nation, we will continue to work to ensure that Quayside will be a place that celebrates Indigenous history and presence and lays the foundation for a good future based on inclusion, respect and reconciliation," said Stacey LaForme, chief of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.
There will also be a community care hub for healthcare and "offering a range of programs and services to support aging-in-place" as well as infrastructure for recreation for the community.
Henning Larsen's Overstorey building will be situated across from Adjaye Associates block
Previously, the site was going to be developed by Sidewalk Toronto, a project of Sidewalk Labs, the subsidiary of Google.
Those plans included designs by Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio for a smart, mass-timber neighbourhood. The plans were ultimately scrapped in 2020 because of the pandemic.
Other projects under development in Toronto include Safdie Architect's Orca, a set of housing blocks connected by bridges as well as plans by Diamond Schmitt Architects to transform Ontario Place into a wellness destination.
The images are courtesy of Waterfront Toronto.
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Adjaye Associates completes rose-hued cultural hub in Florida
British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida, to house a library and an events centre.
Located on the northwestern corner of the 23-acre (9.3 hectares) Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Florida, the Winter Park Library and Events Center comprises three pavilions and was described as a "micro-village" by Adjaye Associates.
Winter Park Library and Events Center is a cultural hub in Florida that was designed by Adjaye Associates
The cultural hub, which replaced an existing civic centre, was developed as part of an extensive revitalisation of the park and first announced in 2017.
It comprises a 35,155 square-foot (3,266 square-metre) library, an 18,200 square-foot (1,690 square-metre) events centre and a 2,457 square-foot (228 square-metre) Porte Cochère, a portico-style canopy that will be used as a pick-up and drop-off point.
The three structures were constructed using pigmented concrete
The pavilions were designed as square and rectangular buildings with exterior walls that are angled inwards at their base. Large vaulted arches on the sides of the buildings provide views from the interior across to the parkland.
Materials used were locally sourced, with the precast concrete used across the facade sourced from within 25 miles of the site.
Vaulted arches were fitted with large windows
The project's design also references its surroundings, with the vaulted arches informed by the park's plant life and local architecture.
"Arches, inspired both by local fauna and the region's vernacular architecture, establish the form of the pavilions, with vaulted rooflines and sweeping windows creating a porous relationship between interior and exterior, drawing natural light deep into the buildings," said Adjaye Associates.
The events centre features space for performances
The two-storey library houses collection spaces, a computer lab, an indoor auditorium, a recording studio and youth spaces. It has an open-plan design to aid accessibility throughout and four timber-lined cores that hold archival collections, reading rooms and support zones.
The events centre contains a rooftop terrace and a large auditorium surrounded by flexible open spaces, as well as an amphitheatre and a rooftop meeting room.
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Dramatic black-painted spiral staircases sit at the centre of each structure, contrasting against red-painted walls and connecting the upper levels of the buildings.
Rose-pigmented concrete covers the ceiling above the event centre and the library's mezzanine-style second floor, tying the interior of the buildings together with the exterior walls.
The cultural hub was informed by local architecture
The event centre rooftop terrace overlooks the park, as well as a nearby lake and the concrete embossed roofline of the adjacent library and Porte Cochère.
"As an ensemble, the Winter Park Library and Events Center comes together as a space of social gathering, intellectual nourishment, and enhanced connection to its natural tropical context," the practice said.
Rose-coloured concrete covers the events centre ceiling
The Porte Cochère pavilion is situated beside the events centre and library and has the same rose-pigmented concrete material palette and a similar tapered, square form.
Unlike the library and events spaces, however, the pavilion has no glazing between its vaulted arches. Instead, it functions as an open canopy under which visitors can rest. A large circular opening pierces the roof of the pavilion, adding a sculptural quality.
Materials and concrete used at the cultural hub were sourced locally
The structures were designed with large overhangs to ensure visitors are given shade from the Florida sun, while an on-site solar energy system is projected to produce around 37,865-kilowatt-hours of energy annually.
The project also has a stormwater irrigation system that lets the stormwater filter through its parking lot structure, before being collected in a nearby lake and reused to water the landscape around the buildings.
Other red-hued projects by Adjaye Associates include the proposed campus for The Africa Institute in downtown Sharjah, UAE, and eight rammed-earth domes that the practice designed for the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library in South Africa.
Photography is byDror Baldinger.
Project credits:
Design architect: Adjaye Associates
Architect of record: HuntonBrady Architects
Acoustical design: Gary Seibein
Civil engineer and landscape architect: Land Design
Envelope consultant: Thornton Tomasetti
Food service design: Phil Bean
General contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie
Owner’s representative: The Pizzutti Companies
Signage consultant: Poblocki
Structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection engineer + audio visual and security: TLC Engineering
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Adjaye set to create memorial to West African slaves in Barbados
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a memorial on a rammed-earth mound, museum and research institute focused on the impact of slavery for Bridgetown, Barbados.
The studio, which is led by RIBA Royal Gold Medalist David Adjaye, designed the Barbados Heritage District to address the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on the island, which recently became a republic.
"Drawing upon the technique and philosophy of traditional African tombs, prayer sites and pyramids, the memorial is conceived as a space that contemporaneously honours the dead, edifies the living, and manifests a new diasporic future for Black civilization," said the studio.
It is estimated that almost 400,000 enslaved Africans were transported to Barbados during the 17th and 18th centuries, while the island was a British colony.
Adjaye Associates has designed a memorial to slavery in Barbados
Set to be built on Newton Plantation, next to the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground, the Newton Enslaved Burial Ground Memorial is designed to commemorate an estimated 570 West African slaves who are buried on the site.
The memorial structure will have 570 vertical timber columns topped with circular brass plates arranged in rows on top of a mound made from rammed earth.
The site will be called the Barbados Heritage District
"As a means of physicalising and commemorating the enslaved buried below this sacred earth, the field is punctuated by 570 individual timber beams each capped with circular brass plates oriented towards the sun to catch the Barbadian light," explained the studio.
"The memorial will demarcate a site of tragedy and trauma and transform it into a charged place of commemoration, remembrance and connection."
A memorial will be next to a museum about the transatlantic slave trade
The mound itself will be positioned at the highest point of the sloped site, accessible via a ramp that leads up from a domed museum composed of red laterite earth materials.
The museum will contain exhibits focused on the burial ground and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while circular openings will punctuate the dome to give views of the sky above and let in light in.
Adjaye Associates' describes its design as "inherently African", as evidenced in its material choices.
"Aligning the sacred landscape with notions of renewal and rebirth, the memorial addresses a traumatic past whilst celebrating the potential for new futures through an inherently African design in which the cycle of birth to death, born from the Earth and returning, becomes manifest and mediated through architecture."
570 timber columns commemorate the slaves buried in the burial ground nearby
A research centre dedicated to covering the history and legacy of slavery is also planned to be built on the site, although details of this have yet to be revealed.
The project was announced shortly after Barbados became the word's latest republic, after removing the British monarchy as its head of state last week.
Construction of the memorial is due to begin on 30 November, 2022, which will be exactly one year since Barbados became a republic.
The studio will use materials such as rammed earth
Award-winning architect Adjaye has spoken publicly about the need for more memorials and monuments dedicated to the victims of slavery.
He also curated an exhibition at the Design Museum called Making Memory which covered seven monuments and memorials by Adjaye Associates.
Adjaye Associates was established by David Adjaye in 2000. The studio is currently working on Le Mémorial des Martyrs, which is set to be built in Niger and a memorial for a Black woman killed by British police in London.
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Adjaye Associates proposes inverted supertall skyscraper for New York
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a supertall skyscraper in New York, which has a series of cantilevers to give it a dramatic form.
Named Affirmation Tower, the skyscraper was designed for a 1.2-acre vacant plot of land at 418 11th Avenue in Manhattan where New York State has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in order to fill the site.
Affirmation Tower would be built in Manhattan
Adjaye Associates designed the 1,663-feet-tall (498-metre) supertall skyscraper – a building over 300 metres – to cantilever outwards five times so that the upper levels are much larger than the lower levels. This would give it an inverted appearance compared to a traditional skyscraper.
Outwardly defined by these stepped blocks, the building would include two hotels and office space, as well as an ice skating rink and an observation deck.
The skyscraper would include an observation deck
Local developer Peebles Corporation has submitted the supertall to the Empire State Development Corporation in a bid to build the skyscraper on the vacant site, which is called Site K.
It is positioned next to Manhattan's Javits Center, one block away from the city's High Line, as well as the Hudson Yards real estate development and Number 7 subway line.
Offices with terraced space would feature in the design
If built, the project would be Adjaye Associates' tallest tower to date, and would also be the second tallest building in Manhattan after One World Trade Center.
According to the studio it would be the first skyscraper built by a team of Black architects, developers, lenders and builders in New York City's history.
There are plans to house the headquarters of the NAACP's Mid-Manhattan branch within the building.
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"Unfortunately for most of New York's history, African-Americans and people of color have been rendered as mere economic tourists who gaze upward at one of the greatest skylines in the world with the intrinsic knowledge they will never be able to participate in what really makes New York unique," said Rev Dr Charles Curtis, Head of NY Interfaith Commission For Housing Equality.
"The awarding of this project to this team will send a statement across the globe that architects, developers, engineers and financial professionals of color are now full participants in this great miracle of global capitalism called New York City."
Cantilevers would define the supertall's structure
The supertall would be the second New York tower designed by Adjaye Associates following 130 William, a concrete residential skyscraper designed by the firm, which was founded by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye in 2000.
The building would be the latest in a series of supertall skyscrapers built in New York with buildings over 300 metres designed by BIG, Foster + Partners and SHoP currently under development in the city.
The images are courtesy of the Peebles Corporation.
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Adjaye Associates proposes inverted supertall skyscraper for New York
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a supertall skyscraper in New York, which has a series of cantilevers to give it a dramatic form.
Named The Affirmation Tower, the skyscraper was designed for a 1.2-acre vacant plot of land at 418 11th Avenue in Manhattan where New York State has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in order to fill the site.
The Affirmation Tower would be built in Manhattan
Adjaye Associates designed the 1,663-feet-tall (498-metre) supertall skyscraper – a building over 300 metres – to cantilever outwards five times so that the upper levels are much larger than the lower levels. This would give it an inverted appearance compared to a traditional skyscraper.
Outwardly defined by these stepped blocks, the building would include two hotels and office space, as well as an ice skating rink and an observation deck.
The skyscraper would include two hotels and office spaces
Local developer Peebles Corporation has submitted the supertall to the Empire State Development Corporation in a bid to build the skyscraper on the vacant site, which is called Site K.
It is positioned next to Manhattan's Javits Center, one block away from the city's High Line, as well as the Hudson Yards real estate development and Number 7 subway line.
An observation deck would feature in the design
If built, the project would be Adjaye Associates' tallest tower to date.
According to the studio it would be the first skyscraper built by a team of Black architects, developers, lenders and builders in New York City's history.
There are plans to house the headquarters of the NAACP's Mid-Manhattan branch within the building.
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"Unfortunately for most of New York's history, African-Americans and people of color have been rendered as mere economic tourists who gaze upward at one of the greatest skylines in the world with the intrinsic knowledge they will never be able to participate in what really makes New York unique," said Rev Dr Charles Curtis, Head of NY Interfaith Commission For Housing Equality.
"The awarding of this project to this team will send a statement across the globe that architects, developers, engineers and financial professionals of color are now full participants in this great miracle of global capitalism called New York City."
Cantilevers would define the supertall's structure
The supertall would be the second New York tower designed by Adjaye Associates following 130 William, a concrete residential skyscraper designed by the firm, which was founded by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye in 2000.
The building would be the latest in a series of supertall skyscrapers built in New York with buildings over 300 metres designed by BIG, Foster + Partners and SHoP currently under development in the city.
The images are courtesy of Adjaye Associates.
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Adjaye Associates designing 101 hospitals "to transform Ghana's medical system"
Architecture studio Adjaye Associates is designing over 100 hospitals for sites across Ghana as part of the country's Agenda 111 program.
The studio, which is led by British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye, will design the facilities as part of an overhaul of the country's healthcare system that will see 111 hospitals built.
Above: Adjaye Associates has designed 101 hospitals in Ghana. Top: they will be located across the country
"The District Hospitals presents an opportunity to transform Ghana's medical system by establishing unparalleled access to healthcare facilities throughout the country," said Adjaye Associates.
"Guided by the ambition to define a next-generation hospital experience, the design concept merges 21st-century technology with a contextual and holistic approach crucial to the delivery of state-of-the-art healthcare."
Linear blocks will be divided by walkways
As part of the Agenda 111 program, Adjaye Associates is designing 101 hospitals. The 8,500-square-metre facilities will consist of a series of single-storey blocks within a walled campus.
Each of the hospitals will contain an A&E department and surgery along with pediatric, maternity, isolation and surgical wards.
Alongside these primary care facilities, the buildings will also contain a mortuary, residences for doctors, laundry, an energy centre, kitchens and stores.
The hospitals will be surrounded by green spaces
The buildings will be arranged linearly with security and entrance blocks at the front followed by primary healthcare facilities, with wards at the rear.
Patient ward blocks will have butterfly roofs to let in large amounts of natural light, while the surgery, A&E and other spaces will have gabled roofs.
All of the blocks will be arranged around a central courtyard and surrounded by green spaces.
"By approaching the hospital as more than just a place for the provision of medical services, the design scheme aims to unlock the potential of this ambitious initiative by repositioning the hospital as a piece of community infrastructure that embodies sustainability, efficiency, and generously provides green spaces to facilitate wellness and healing," said Adjaye.
Patient wards are designed to have large amounts of natural light
The hospitals will have a similar layout but be adapted to each of the 101 sites, which are located across the whole country.
According to the studio, they will be built from prefabricated elements to reduce the building's carbon impact.
The 101 hospitals will all have similar layouts
"Acknowledging that the building design will need to adapt to over 101 locations in different urban and rural settings across the country, the design scheme embraces smart strategies and ecologically responsive systems able to conform to each unique geographic condition," explained the studio.
"The use of prefabricated systems work conductively with materials to maintain the lowest possible carbon footprint whilst also maximizing the ability to reproduce efficiently and rapidly."
Adjaye Associates, which was founded in 2010, is led by Adjaye who recently won the RIBA Gold Medal. The studio is also designing a new cathedral in Accra, Ghana, which will be topped with a dramatic concave roof.
Project credits:
Architect: Adjaye Associates
Design coordinator : Sutherland & Sutherland Architects
Biomed: Titan Biomedical Engineering
Contractor: Varies
Electrical engineer: Global Engineering & Technology
Kitchen consultant: Smollensky’s
Hospital consultant: Ministry of Health
Landscape: Brix Landscaping
Mechanical engineer: Global Engineering & Technology
QS: CC&M Consult
Signage: Mainline
Structural & mechanical engineer: CSEng
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Adjaye Associates designs monolithic campus for The Africa Institute in Sharjah
Large courtyards will sit between the five high-rise blocks that define The Africa Institute campus, which Adjaye Associates is developing in downtown Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Slated for completion in 2023, the red-hued concrete campus in the Al Mankah neighbourhood will support The Africa Institute's study and documentation of the African diaspora in the Arab world.
Adjaye Associates has revealed visuals for The Africa Institute campus
Adjaye Associates' design for the 31,882-square-metre campus comprises a boundary of four solid walls, across which four of the monolithic high-rise blocks will be elevated.
The fifth and southernmost block will incorporate the existing home of The Africa Institute, Africa Hall, which is set to be renovated as part of the project.
It will occupy the same site as the existing home of The Africa Institute
Once complete, the campus will be used to support the organisation's various events, as well as its new higher education programme due to roll out in 2023.
Entrances will be incorporated into each of its four facades in a bid to help connect The Africa Institute to the existing walkways and institutions around the site.
It will be marked by five high-rise volumes
"I am deeply humbled for the opportunity to design The Africa Institute in Sharjah, a project which introduces an entirely new type of thinking and mission into the global academic arena," said Adjaye Associates' founder David Adjaye.
"I envision the new campus as a springboard for the concretization of the incredible history of Africa, the African diaspora, and the Arab world."
Open-air courtyards will sit between the blocks
A red-hued concrete was chosen for the campus in an effort to "enhance the desert typology", Adjaye Associates said.
The studio also claimed that the concrete used will be low carbon and help to naturally cool the building through thermal mass and by limiting sun exposure.
Natural cooling for the campus will also be provided through large overhangs around the site and by the open-air courtyards, which will be filled with native plants and water features.
Inside, the campus will be fitted out with a variety of spaces to cater to classes and seminars of different sizes.
A library will be among its features
There will also be a research library and climatised archive, a flexible auditorium and performance space, alongside a restaurant, cafe and bookstore.
The Africa Institute is currently also commissioning artists to create installations to be dotted throughout the new building.
There will be a flexible performance space
Adjaye Associates was founded by British-Ghanian architect Adjaye, who was the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal for 2021, in 2000.
Elsewhere in the UAE, the studio is currently also developing The Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi that will comprise a church, mosque and synagogue.
The visuals are courtesy of Adjaye Associates.
Project credits:
Design architect: Adjaye Associates
Architect of record: WSP
Client: Sharjah Art Foundation
Cost consultant: Houston and Partners
Electrical engineer: WSP
Lighting consultants: Studio Fractal
Mechanical engineer: WSP
Structural engineer: WSP
Theatre consultants: Charcoalblue
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