On April 14 Lonnie Bunch, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (AAHC), announced the selection of Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup to design the museum’s freestanding building on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. The winning team, comprising The Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond, and SmithGroup, was part of shortlist of six teams announced on January 29. The finalists’ proposals for the museum design were unveiled at the Smithsonian Institution Building, also known in Washington as the Castle, on March 27.
In addition to Bunch, the 10-person competition jury included Smithsonian officials and prominent members of the African-American community: Mike Bellamy, director of the Smithsonian’s Office of Engineering, Design and Construction; AAHC council members James A. Johnson, Franklin D. Raines, and Linda Johnson Rice; Robert Kogod, member of Smithsonian Board of Regents; Sheryl Kolasinski, director of Smithsonian’s Office of Planning and Project Management. The remaining jurors were Boston Globe architecture critic and RECORD contributor Robert Campbell, National Endowment for the Arts director of design Maurice Cox, and MIT School of Architecture dean Adèle Naudé Santos.
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