The Adjaye Architecture Studio (Adjaye Associates) designed a monument on a rammed earth mound, as well as a museum and institute, focusing on

Adjaye Associates designed a monument on a rammed earth mound, as well as a museum and research institute focused on the impact of slavery on Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. The studio, led by Royal Institute of British Architects gold medalist David Adjaye, designed the Barbados Heritage District to reflect the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on the island, which recently became a republic. Drawing on the techniques and philosophies of traditional African mausoleums, prayer places and pyramids, the memorial was designed as a space that simultaneously honors the dead, edify the living, and showcases the new diasporic future of black civilization.