© Darren Bradley
A century since the founding of the National Memorial
Association and the start of a campaign by African-American war veterans
for a monument of African American culture, the
National Museum of African American History and Culture
will finally be opened on September 24th. The Museum took $540 million
and four years to build, resulting in a striking, and refreshingly
unorthodox, architectural construction on Washington DC’s National Mall.
The
Freelon Adjaye
Bond /
SmithGroup JJR team, led by Ghanaian-British architect
David Adjaye ,
defiantly broke the white-marble-Corinthian-column convention, opting
instead for a bronze-coated aluminum façade bound to provoke a reaction
from the critics.
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