Sugar Hill Development

400 West 155th Street | also 898 St Nicholas Avenue, 404 West 155th Street, 414 West 155th Street | Sugar Hill | built 2015

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2012
Artist Faith Ringgold withdraws from the museum planned in her name
Harlem-born artist Faith Ringgold, for whom architect David Adjaye's planned children's museum is to be named, withdraws her support as the project breaks ground. She cites concerns about how the museum would be operated and how the artwork inside would be kept secure. The institution opens three years later as the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, without her name attached.
Source: Wikipedia
2014
October
Residents move into David Adjaye's Sugar Hill affordable housing
Developed by the nonprofit Broadway Housing Communities under director Ellen Baxter, the 13-story building has 124 apartments for very low-income households, including formerly homeless families; 48,000 people applied. David Adjaye clad it in charcoal precast panels embossed with a rose pattern recalling Harlem Renaissance wallpaper. Tenants began moving in in October 2014.
Source: architecturalrecord.com
2015
September
The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling opens
Founded by Ellen Baxter, the 17,000-square-foot museum opened in September 2015 at the base of the building. It serves children aged 3 to 8, especially those traditional art programs miss, and has shown work by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Derek Fordjour. It was first planned as the Faith Ringgold Children's Museum.
Source: Wikipedia

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