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What puzzles me about Adjaye is how the vibrancy of African architecture, brilliantly illustrated in his recent compendium of books (which are wonferful) is not reflected in his blansd, introverted, secretive architecture, such as the Stephen Lawrence Centre (a highly forbidding building that no young person would feel happy to enter) or this thing in Washington, which offers absolutely nothing to its surrounding context and seems to be mostly concerned with its own security. Open up, Mr. Adjaye !