David Adjaye’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
In 2006, Adjaye was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for the Whitechapel Idea Store, built on the remains of a 1960s mall. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007 for services to British architecture. In 2016 he received the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s McDermott award, a $100,000 prize for excellence in the arts. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture.
- RIBA – Bronze Medal for Part 1 Students – 1993
- Design Futures Council Senior Fellow
- Design Miami/ Designer of the Year Award – 2011
- Powerlist: Britain’s Most Influential Black Person – 2012
- MIT Office for the Arts. “McDermott Award Past Recipients”. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61803. p. N2. 31 December 2016.
- Designer of the Year Award, Design Miami. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- “David Adjaye tops PowerList 2013”, The Guardian, 25 October 2012.
