{"id":662240,"date":"2019-07-22T23:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>David Adjaye<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Globally acclaimed architectural design firm, David Adjaye\n&amp; Associates, has dismissed claims that its operations in Ghana are\nillegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also refuted claims that it is being\n\u201cfavo"},"modified":"2019-07-22T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:10:48","slug":"were-operating-legally-adjaye-tells-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/22\/were-operating-legally-adjaye-tells-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Operating Legally &#8211; Adjaye Tells Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>David Adjaye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Globally acclaimed architectural design firm, David Adjaye<br \/>\n&amp; Associates, has dismissed claims that its operations in Ghana are<br \/>\nillegal.<\/p>\n<p>It has also refuted claims that it is being<br \/>\n\u201cfavored\u201d in the award of a number of the Ghanaian Government\u2019s<br \/>\narchitectural contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian architectural firm, Design Associates Development<br \/>\nConsortium, has been protesting purported award of a number of Government\u2019s<br \/>\nprojects to David Adjaye &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>In a protest letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo dated July<br \/>\n11, 2019, signed by its Coordinator, Dr. Ekow Sam, Design Associates<br \/>\nDevelopment Consortium, complained about how major government projects were<br \/>\nbeing awarded to David Adjaye &amp; Associates.<\/p>\n<p>The Consortium mentioned that 12 projects namely the Trade<br \/>\nFair Centre Redesign, the National Cathedral, the proposed new Parliamentary<br \/>\nChamber, Bank of Ghana (BoG) Cedi House 2, Airport City 2 Design, as some of<br \/>\nthe projects awarded to David Adjaye &amp; Associates so far.<\/p>\n<p>Again, the Consortium alleged that award process has not been<br \/>\ntransparent and fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven where we have bid alongside this Government<br \/>\npreferred architect and won on merit, a decision is taken to give the project<br \/>\nto this architect,\u201d it said in the letter to President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Again the Consortium alleged that \u201cSir David Adjaye who<br \/>\nis the principal architect of Adjaye\u00a0 and<br \/>\nAssociates, to the best of our knowledge, is not licensed or registered to<br \/>\ncarry on the profession of an architect under the Architects Decree, 1968 (NRCD<br \/>\n357) as amended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Consortium described Sir Adjaye as a foreign architect.<\/p>\n<p>But David Adjaye &amp; Associates says it is in Ghana \u201cdoing<br \/>\nlegitimate business in the country and has not infringed any laws\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It has also denied that there was disregard for transparency<br \/>\nand fairness in the award of the projects it won.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has also in a letter dated dated July 4, 2019,<br \/>\naddressed to Dr. Sam, clarified why it relied on restrictive tendering for the<br \/>\ndesign of controversial new Parliamentary Chamber which the aggrieved<br \/>\narchitects have claimed was awarded to David Adjaye.<\/p>\n<p>According to the letter, \u201cParliament wrote to and sought<br \/>\nconcurrent approval of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) for restrictive<br \/>\ntendering among three shortlisted architectural design firms for the proposed<br \/>\nnew Parliamentary Chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said \u201cit should be noted that Parliament\u2019s purpose for referring the design competition to the Architectural Registration Council (ARC) was to subject the selection process to full professional scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Adjaye Globally acclaimed architectural design firm, David Adjaye &amp; Associates, has dismissed claims that its operations in Ghana are illegal. It has also refuted claims that it is being \u201cfavored\u201d in the award of a number of the Ghanaian Government\u2019s architectural contracts. 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