These projects were not ordinary projects. Most of them received awards. The Idea Stores on Chrisp Street, for instance, was a 2005 winner of the RIBA Building Award, a nominee for the 2006 Sterling Prize, and was an exhibitor in the VIII Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2002 and 2005 and the Sao Paulo Biennial in 2003.
For Adjaye Associates, architecture is a catalyst for social, material, and conceptual transformation. Powered by its mission to improve people’s lives, Adjaye Associates designs buildings that meet the varying needs of the community it serves. Adjaye Associates is influenced and inspired by many cultures around the world and it clearly expresses its enthusiasm to make its own identity.
Rather than making homogenous projects, Adjaye Associates is using context to create and animate different projects. Adjaye Associates is making a clear statement that it can compete with the complexity of the present world and tackle that unsettled territory of cultural experimentation. Adjaye Associates are making residences in urban areas as places where families retreat, while civic buildings are more than just institutions. For Adjaye Associates, a considerable amount of emphasis is placed on lightings, materials and color palette.
David Adjaye was successful in driving the company to a deep understanding of the complexities of urban and rural living. There are multiple interpretations of geography, topography and climate in architecture. And Adjaye Associates has incorporated all these important factors in its masterplanning.