Adjaye Associates Tapped for Major Cultural Projects in New Delhi and Vermont

The eponymous firm of celebrated Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye is designing a pair of major cultural projects—one just freshly announced and the other’s design unveiled today ahead of the public opening of the 18^th Venice Architecture Biennale—in two geographically disparate locations: in the heart of the Indian capital of New Delhi and in the small New England town of Shelburne, Vermont.

The latter project, the Perry Center for Native American Art, will serve as a major new addition to the Shelburne Museum, located just south of Burlington along the shores of Lake Champlain. Established in 1947 by folk art collector Electra Havermeyer Webb, the museum’s dizzying, Americana-heavy collection consists of more than 100,000 objects—Impressionist paintings, quilts and domestic textiles, horse-drawn vehicles, wildfowl decoys, a sizable trove of circus artifacts, and more—housed within a total of 39 exhibition buildings (a majority of them historic) spread across a 45-acre lakeside campus anchored by the relocated and restored steamboat Ticonderoga. With an estimated cost of $12.6 million, Adjaye’s Perry Center will be constructed on the southern end of the sprawling museum campus near the main entrance. (The last major new addition at Shelburne Museum, the Ann Beha Architects–designed Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, opened in 2013.)