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RIBA announces Sir David Adjaye to receive the 2021 Royal Gold Metal for Architecture

30 September 2020

Sir David Adjaye’s significant influence on the advancement of architecture over the last 25 years has been recognised with the UK’s highest honour for architecture, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. His completed projects range from private homes to major art centres and include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, and Ruby City, an art centre in San Antonio Texas. Photo credit Josh Huskin

Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and Culture, Washington DC. Lead designer Adjaye Associates in 2016 / Photo Nic Lehoux Courtesy RIBA

Ruby City art Centre in San Antonio, Texas by Adjaye Associates in 2019 / Photo Dror Baldinger FAIA Courtesy RIBA

Moscow School of Management in Skolkovo, Russia by Adjaye Associates in 2010 / Photo Iwan Baan Courtesy RIBA

Snøhetta’s Banknote Design for Norges Bank

Design/ Objects

The Central Bank of Norway, Norges Bank, appointed Snøhetta and Metric Design / Terje Tønnessen to design its new paper currency. Snohetta’s proposal for the banknote stems from the exploration of the boundaries of the Norwegian coastline and its pixelated representation as a metaphor for ancient mosaic. Snøhetta

Open House London

Events

17-18 September 2016.

The 24th Open House London weekend will this year give free entry to 750 of the city’s best buildings, 140 of which are new to the annual programme. Among the new entries, highlights include Anish Kapoor’s Orbit Tower, the house Cheesegrater architect Richard Rogers designed for his parents in Wimbledon; Here East, the new technology hub and business campus in Hackney Wick and Second Home, a co- working office in Whitechapel that feels more like a nightclub than a workplace. Perennial favourites The Gherkin, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, tours of the Crossrail tunnels, as well as the Shard, the Cheesegrater and Portcullis House – and of course 10 Downing Street are once again among the buildings visitors can enter for free. Open House London

Hulger & Wilkinson Plumen Light Bulb

Design/ Interiors/ Lighting/ Objects

The Original Plumen 001 is the world’s first designer low energy light bulb. The dynamic, sculptured form contrasts to the dull regular shapes of existing low energy bulbs, in an attempt to make the Plumen a centrepiece, not afterthought. The Plumen 001 works like any other high quality low energy bulb – saving you 80% on your energy bills and lasting 8 times longer than a standard incandescent bulb. Designed by HULGER and Samuel Wilkinson. Plumen.