The Chicago Sun-Times has learned David Adjaye, an international rock star among architects whose work includes Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, will “step away” from a major Chicago project in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations by three of his female ex-employees.
Adjaye, a Ghanaian-British architect who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2017, had been working with Chicago real estate development company Fern Hill on a plan to rework portions of a prominent three-sided island of land, bounded by North Avenue, LaSalle Drive and Clark Street in the Old Town neighborhood.
