When president Barack Obama held a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron last year, the luminaries at the head table included Warren Buffett, George Clooney, and David Adjaye. Not long after, the British press began referring to Adjaye as the president’s favorite architect.
At the time, there was no talk of an Obama presidential library—the election was still months away, and the president had reportedly told friends he didn’t want a library. But in January, the New York Times’s Jodi Kantor reported that Obama had changed his mind and that a former aide had been scouting locations. Since then, speculation has flourished about where the library will be built and who will be asked to design it.
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