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After I explained what had just happened on the street, Dad consoled me and said it wasnât my fault. From then on, being stopped and searched became a regular occurrence â at least 10 times. I never had to be told not to trust the police, it was just the way things were.
When my career took off, my life changed. For the first time I had some of the finer things. As a black man dressing smartly and driving nice cars, I was stopped by police more and more often. What did that 10-year-old boy have in common with the man I was becoming in the eyes of these officers? Being black.
I’m on a walk with a friend and only half-listening to her when I’m jolted out of my sunshine-induced reverie. “Boris faked his illness.” Did she really believe that the British prime minister’s near-fatal encounter with covid-19 had been scripted in a Deep State writers’ room? She continues: “They already have a cure; they’re just pretending otherwise.” I hold my tongue. The weather is blissful and I just want to enjoy myself.
Debunking conspiracy theories can test even the best friendships. I should know, I’ve been doing it long enough. When the pandemic started, I tried to ignore the pseudoscience spouted by some of my friends, black and white. Living in Bristol, a city with a strong alternative streak, you develop a high tolerance for quackery.
This week David Chipperfield unveiled a museum and a skyscraper
In Berlin, the studio carried out a surgical renovation of Mies van der Rohe s museum, which is the only building he designed in Europe after his emigration to the USA.
David Chipperfield Architects aimed to retain the architect s original vision for the gallery while updating the ageing structure and reorganising the lower floor.
Meanwhile in New York, the studio unveiled The Bryant. The 32-storey concrete block in Midtown Manhattan, which overlooks Bryant Park and the New York Public Library, contains a hotel and residential apartments.
The fair, considered the most important design fair in the world, will run as planned at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 5 to 10 September.