[NYguy]

Don't know if this will be affected...


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/arts/design/david-adjaye-architect-allegation.html

Studio Museum in Harlem and Other Clients Cut Ties to David Adjaye


By Robin Pogrebin and Alex Marshall
July 6, 2023

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced Thursday that it had taken the significant step of parting ways with David Adjaye, the charismatic Ghanaian British architect who is building its new home in Manhattan. A library project in Portland, Ore., is moving forward without him. A sculpture park in Lincoln, Mass., canceled a show of his work planned for fall. And other cultural institutions from Princeton, N.J., to Liverpool, England, expressed serious concerns in response to the allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Mr. Adjaye that surfaced this week.

Mr. Adjaye himself in a statement said that he was stepping away from completion of the Studio Museum project “with the heaviest heart,” adding that “the prospect of the accusations against me tarnishing the museum and creating a distraction is too much to bear.”

Mr. Adjaye, who has offices in London, New York and Accra, Ghana, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2017, has relinquished a number of roles in the wake of the allegations. These include being an architectural adviser to the mayor of London, and being part of the team working on a British Holocaust memorial next to the Palace of Westminster. Mr. Adjaye said in his statement that he did not want the allegations to “become a distraction” to those projects. He has also agreed to step away from a major Chicago housing project, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.

.....Bedrock, a Detroit-based developer that hired Adjaye Associates for a major Cleveland waterfront revitalization, said Thursday that “in light of” the serious allegations, “we are evaluating the business associations as we continue to move the project forward.”