Portal:Architecture/News archive

2015

• 9 December 2015: London based architecture collective Assemble wins the 2015 Turner Prize.
• 2 December 2015: The 2016 AIA Gold Medal is awarded to Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi.
• 4-6 November 2015: The 8th World Architecture Festival is held in Singapore.
• 15 October 2015: The Burntwood School designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris is awarded the 2015 Stirling Prize.
• 24 September 2015: Zaha Hadid announced recipient of the 2016 Royal Gold Medal.
• 5 July 2015: The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel (including Chilehaus, an example of Brick Expressionism) in Hamburg are listed as a World Heritage Site.
• 22 June 2015: The 2015 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Selgas Cano opens in London.
• 16 June 2015: Indian architect Charles Correa dies aged 84.
• 8 May 2015: The Szczecin Philharmonic designed by Barozzi Veiga receives the Mies van der Rohe Award.
• 4 May 2015: The new Parliament House building of Malta designed by Renzo Piano opens.
• 12 March 2015: American architect Michael Graves dies aged 80.
• 10 March 2015: German architect Frei Otto is announced the 2015 Pritzker Prize winner, just one day after his death.
• 9 February 2015: US architect Jon Jerde renowned for his shopping mall designs, dies aged 75.
• 3 February 2015: O'Donnell & Tuomey receive the 2015 Royal Gold Medal.
• 14 January 2015: Philharmonie de Paris designed by Jean Nouvel is officially opened.

2014

• 25 December 2014: Cuban architect Ricardo Porro dies aged 89.
• 11 December 2014: Moshe Safdie is announced winner of the 2015 AIA Gold Medal
• 16 November 2014: Harvard Art Museums by Renzo Piano opens.
• 16 October 2014: The Stirling Prize is awarded to the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool designed by Haworth Tompkins
• 1-3 October 2014: 7th World Architecture Festival is held in Singapore.
• 21 September 2014: The final stage of New York's High Line opens to the public.
• 19 September 2014: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights designed by Antoine Predock opens.
• 18 September 2014: The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto designed by Fumihiko Maki opens.
• 24 June 2014: This year's Serpentine Pavilion in London designed by Smiljan Radic opens.
• 21 June 2014: Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, an icon of the International Style, declared a World Heritage Site.
• 7 June 2014: The Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by Rem Koolhaas opens.
• 26 May 2014: The structure of the Glasgow School of Art survives major fire but Mackintosh library is lost.
• 20 May 2014: Phyllis Lambert, founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, announced as winner of the Golden Lion award of the Venice Biennale.
• 24 April 2014: Austrian architect Hans Hollein, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1985, dies.
• 29 March 2014: Pier Carlo Bontempi wins the Driehaus Prize in new classical architecture.
• 24 March 2014: Shigeru Ban announced as winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize
• 27 January 2014: Casa Lleó Morera in Barcelona reopens to public after years of restoration.
• 10 January 2014: British architect Kathryn Findlay dies aged 60.

2013

• 16 December 2013: The 2014 AIA Gold Medal to be awarded posthumously to Julia Morgan.
• 13 November 2013: Four World Trade Center in New York designed by Fumihiko Maki is opened.
• 6 October 2013: The winners of the 6th World Architecture Festival are announced in Singapore.
• 26 September 2013: The 2013 Stirling Prize is awarded to the restoration of Astley Castle.
• 18 September 2013: RIBA names Joseph Rykwert the recipient of the 2014 Royal Gold Medal.
• 6 September 2013: The winners of the 12th Aga Khan Award for Architecture are announced.
• 31 August 2013: Architect Renzo Piano named honorary Italian senator for life.
• 15 August 2013: The Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch by Shigeru Ban opens.
• 22 June 2013: Danish architect Henning Larsen dies aged 87.
• 14 June 2013: Petition for the retroactive acknowledgment of Denise Scott Brown by the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury garners over 17,000 signatures.
• 8 June 2013: The 2013 Serpentine Gallery pavilion designed by Sou Fujimoto opens in London.
• 29 April 2013: The Harpa concert hall in Reykjavík by Henning Larsen Architects wins the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013
• 17 March 2013: Toyo Ito is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
• 18 February 2013: Sou Fujimoto selected to design the 2013 Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London.
• 6 February 2013: Peter Zumthor is awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
• 28 January 2013: Gas Works Park in Seattle and Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• 2 January 2013: The James B. Hunt Jr. Library in Raleigh, North Carolina designed by Snøhetta officially opened.

2012

• 5 December 2012: Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer dies aged 104.
• 1 November 2012: Interior designer of Musée d'Orsay and Palazzo Grassi, Gae Aulenti passes away.
• 30 October 2012: American architect and artist Lebbeus Woods dies.
• 13 October 2012: The Sainsbury Laboratory building in Cambridge by Stanton Williams is awarded the Stirling Prize.
• 29 August 2012: The 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture opens, directed by David Chipperfield.
• 15 July 2012: Pioneer of Bangladeshi architecture Muzharul Islam dies aged 88.
• 5 July 2012: The Shard in London, designed by Renzo Piano, is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft)
• 15 June 2012: Austrian architect Günther Domenig dies aged 77.
• 31 May 2012: Ai Weiwei misses opening of the 12th Serpentine Gallery in London, designed together with Herzog & de Meuron (The Guardian)
• 16 May 2012: The CCTV Tower in Beijing is completed, a decade after its initial design by OMA.
• 9 April 2012: Design competition finalists for the National Mall in Washington DC on display for public comment (Architectural Record)
• 6 March 2012: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's iconic Villa Tugendhat reopens to the public in Brno (The New York Times).
• 5 March 2012: The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge by Santiago Calatrava is opened in Dallas (Architectural Record)
• 27 February 2012: Chinese architect Wang Shu is awarded this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize.

2011

• 30 December 2011: Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta dies aged 80.
• 22 December 2011: 200 years of the Manhattan grid celebrated in an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (Architectural Record)
• 19 December 2011: Lloyd's building becomes one of few modern Grade I listed buildings (The Guardian)
• 10 November 2011: David Chipperfield first British architect to curate the Venice Biennale in 2012. (The Guardian)
• 20 October 2011: Military History Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind opens in Dresden (Architectural Record)
• 27 September 2011: Prominent proponent of organic architecture Imre Makovecz dies.
• 14 September 2011: Stephen Breyer and Zaha Hadid selected as new Jurors for the Pritzker Architecture Prize (ArchDaily)
• 1 September 2011: RIBA announces highest funding in its history for architectural research (RIBA)
• 3 July 2011: Bjarke Ingels designs incinerator that doubles as ski slope in Copenhagen. (The Guardian)
• 1 July 2011: This year's temporary Serpentine Gallery pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor opens in London. (The Guardian)
• 11 April 2011: David Chipperfield wins the 2011 Mies van der Rohe Prize (Architecture Today)
• 29 March 2011: Eduardo Souto de Moura is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (The New York Times)
• 10 February 2011: David Chipperfield receives the Royal Gold Medal (RIBA News)

2010

• 7 December 2010: LEED Gold certification required for US federal buildings. (Architectural Record)
• 24 November 2010: Winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced (Architectural Record)
• 2 October 2010: MAXXI Museum in Rome by Zaha Hadid wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 (RIBA News)
• 28 August 2010: Rem Koolhaas wins Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale (Wikinews)
• 12 July 2010: Architect Günter Behnisch, "The Man Who Gave Post-War Germany A New Face" dies aged 88.
• 22 June 2010: RIBA Stirling Prize to be announced on BBC TWOs The Culture Show on 2 October
• 9 April 2010: The team Arup / Grimshaw / Scape wins the Four Mile Run design competition in Northern Virginia.
• 29 March 2010: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese firm SANAA are announced as the 2010 Pritzker Prize winners.
• 4 March 2010: Austrian-born New York architect Raimund Abraham dies in a traffic crash.
• 11 February 2010: Chinese-born American architect I.M. Pei received the Royal Gold Medal 2010 at the RIBA.

2009

• 17 October 2009: "Richard Rogers' Maggie's cancer care centre has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2009"
• 14 April 2009: Peter Zumthor has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2009

2008

• 28 November 2008: "Jørn Utzon dies at 90"

2007

• 18 May 2007: "Giorgio Cavaglieri, Urban Preservationist, Dies at 95"
• 17 May 2007: "Hospitals in India are realising the importance of healing architecture"
• 16 May 2007: "House that council rejected twice wins prize"
• 4 May 2007: "The Serpentine's 2007 summer pavilion promises to be another hit" - collaboration with Olafur Eliasson, Kjetil Thorsen of Snohetta, and the Advanced Geometry Unit of Arup
• 3 May 2007: "Tadao Ando Construction Site 2006" - New museum forms the "Roppongi Art Triangle" near Gluckman Mayner's Mori Art Museum and Kisho Kurokawa's recently opened National Art Center, Tokyo
• 15 April 2007: "Mario Bellini hitting a new stride late in career"
• 13 April 2007: "Zaha Hadid Wins Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture"
• 12 April 2007: "Tadao Ando Talk Asia Interview"
• 10 April 2007: "NZIA Resene New Zealand Award Winners 2007"
• 9 April 2007: "Uganda: Nation's Lost Heritage" - Architecture of Uganda
• 8 April 2007: "Firm foundations" - interview with Will Alsop
• 7 April 2007: "Kimbell addition is in Piano's hands" - "Texas can't seem to get enough of Renzo Piano"
• 5 April 2007: "Contract awarded for National Conference Centre in Dublin" to Kevin Roche
• 4 April 2007: Urban design for everyday public spaces in traditional market streets in Hong Kong
• 3 April 2007: "Googie architecture: When Jetsons ruled the Earth"

• 1 April 2007: Architecture Worthy of the Art Inside - de Young Museum by Herzog & de Meuron

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• 30 March 2007: "Vladimir Shukhov one of the most prolific and innovative architects in early 20th-century Russia. But today his legacy is endangered"
• 29 March 2007: "Vernacular Architecture Forum focuses on Lowcountry" in Savannah, Georgia
• 28 March 2007: "Rogers takes the 'Nobel for architecture' " - Lord Richard Rogers honored with the 2007 Pritzker Prize + Newsweek interview
• 25 March 2007: "How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall" - Transportation planning
• 24 March 2007: "Vank Cathedral a specimen of Armenian architecture" - Cathedral architecture
• 23 March 2007: £290 million King Alfred development will be granted planning permission designed by Frank Gehry - see also: IAC headquarters reviewed New York Times
• 23 March 2007: "Havana's former grandeur decays and crumbles"
• 22 March 2007: "More architecture firms are offshoring", Businessweek
• 22 March 2007: "Koolhaas reveals design for Singapore skyscraper"
• 21 March 2007: "Josef Pleskot channels artistic ambitions into tall buildings" - Architecture of the Czech Republic
• 20 March 2007: Building Design Partnership rebuilds the grandstands at the Aintree racecourse in the northern suburbs of Liverpool
• 19 March 2007: "Urban style should regain harmony" - Urban planning in Ha Noi, Vietnam
• 19 March 2007: Eurostar begins its service from St Pancras railway station - 135 minutes from London to Paris, 2 hours to Brussels
• 18 March 2007: "Better education through architecture" - Architecture of Malaysia
• 18 March 2007: "The Best Architecture" … is from European architects. Newsweek
• 17 March 2007: Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, established in the spring of 2006 at Princeton University
• 16 March 2007: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art explores in “Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture” - Curtain Wall House by Shigeru Ban Architects, Blur Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and more.
• 15 March 2007: "Where in heaven (or hell) did the McMansion come from?" - Easthampton, New York
• 14 March 2007: UK Architecture Week 15 - 24 June 2007 : "How Green is our Space"
• 13 March 2007: "Tastemakers in Architecture ". Forbes.com - 10 architects most influencing our culture: Adjaye, Hadid, Mayne, Sejima…
• 13 March 2007: "The Akhtamar Church has no analogs in the world’s architecture" - Architecture of Turkey
• 12 March 2007: "How New York City-based architect Tina Manis balances the demands of family and work" - Newsweek & “Currently, women make up only 11 percent of AIA membership,”… Interior Design
• 9 March 2007: After long delays the keys to Wembley Stadium are finally handed to the client.
• 9 March 2007: Architecture for Humanity launches the Open Architecture Network Official website
• 8 March 2007: Superstar architect Frank Gehry will expand the first art museum he designed at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis
• 7 March 2007: "First Lisbon Architecture Triennial to Focus on Filling Urban Voids" - Architecture of Portugal
• 7 March 2007: "Big home builders say most consumers won't pay for 'green' homes" - Green building and sustainable architecture
• 6 March 2007: "Walls go up in the search for security" - concrete barricades
• 5 March 2007: "Iran's rich architecture and rare treasures threatened by possible US strikes"
• 5 March 2007: "A Soviet historic site even the historians don't want to preserve" Europe's largest hotel, the enormous Rossiya - few are griping about it being bulldozed.
• 4 March 2007: "PRC cracks down on costly foreign architecture trend"
• 2 March 2007: Shetland Museum and Archives commended as one of the top examples of sustainable, high quality architecture in Scotland
• 3 March 2007: "The Architecture of Happiness: Where Beauty, History Meet - book review
• 2 March 2007: For Milan 2007: "20-06" All-Aluminum Chair by Foster and Partners and Emeco
• 2 March 2007: Depression era architecture proposal by Bernard Maybeck for Berkley California
• 1 March 2007: "Alexei Komech [Moscow] City Preservationist, Dies" [1] Heritage Champion Battles City Hall

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• 28 February 2007: "International architecture competition for large integrated urban site in Dublin" - official site
• 25 February 2007: "S.F.'s new federal building" $144 million project by Thom Mayne of Morphosis
• 25 February 2007: [U.S.] "Architecture Billings Index Begins 2007 on a High Note"
• 24 February 2007: GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition official site first prize: RMB¥150,000 (US$19,300)
• 22 February 2007: "1.5 Million Euro Donated To Netherlands Architecture Institute"
• 22 February 2007: "Medieval Islamic Architecture Presages 20th-century Mathematics". Signs of Advanced Math in Islamic Girih tiles
• 20 February 2007: Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 2 Received by Herzog & de Meuron
• 20 February 2007: "Building Our Legacy" architecture blueprint unveiled Scottish government's new architecture policy
• 18 February 2007: Q&A with Elizabeth Diller, principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on her role in designing the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art on Boston Harbor.
• 17 February 2007: The mystery of Mahathupa or Ruwanweliseya stupa in Celon
• 17 February 2007: Scientists explore the Tarimi Palaces, in Yemen (part 2), (part 3), (part 4)
• 16 February 2007: Scottish firm NORD Architecture wins New Headquarters
• 14 February 2007: Lessons to learn in African architecture
• 12 February 2007: Spanish National Architecture prize awarded to Santiago Calatrava
• 12 February 2007: Collapse of a concrete floor section at Rafael Viñoly’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center, in Pittsburgh. No injuries were reported.
• 11 February 2007: Hyperboloids among the rectangle - Construction of new Tel Aviv Museum
• 9 February 2007: Memorial master shares influences, perspectives on art, architecture - Maya Lin lecture at Rice University
• 9 February 2007: Between Pompeii and Benin City architecture - History of Benin Empire architecture in southern Nigeria
• 7 February 2007: Modernism and Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture, 1917-1967 - book review
• 7 February 2007: Splendour of Russian Wooden Architecture - six museums and websites
• 7 February 2007: America's Favorite Architecture - 150 favorite structures across the nation
• 6 February 2007: New Evidence of Sassanid architecture identified at Kangelou Fortress, Iran
• 6 February 2007: Visiting the most recent architecture in the Basque region of Spain
• 3 February 2007: Denver Art Museum's $110 million addition by architect Daniel Libeskind

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• 30 January 2007: Czech city of Brno sued for possession of the historic Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe
• 30 January 2007: Seven finalists announced for the Mies van der Rohe award
• 30 January 2007: Frank Lloyd Wright's Brandes House in the Puget Sound area is on the market
• 27 January 2007: US$14 million Swiss Ambassador's Residence by Steven Holl
• 26 January 2007: Restoring Penang’s heritage - restoring traditional Chinese architecture
• 26 January 2007: Qingyun Ma appointed new architecture dean at USC
• 25 January 2007: Paris to begun building affordable housing to replace Banlieue suburbs
• 24 January 2007: Frank Gehry gets green light on the 22-acre, US$4 billion–plus Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, New York
• 23 January 2007: Escaping From the Shadow of the 'Wall', Maya Lin 25 years after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• 22 January 2007: U.S. Architecture Billings Index (ABI) Ends 2006 with Highest Mark of the Year
• 22 January 2007: Architectural riches in Africa's newest country Eritrea, a former province of Ethiopia
• 21 January 2007: New Orleans preservationists protect damaged homes
• 21 January 2007: Lord Norman Foster considers sale of Foster + Partners with 44.5 mln stg. (87.2 M$) in billings for 2005
• 18 January 2007: Quebec Order of Architects (OAQ) reveal finalists in the 24th edition of the Architecture Awards of Excellence
• 17 January 2007: Billings at U.S. architecture firms increased 11 percent between 2002 and 2005; more
• 14 January 2007: Freedom Tower Gets Start in a Luxembourg Plant.
• 12 January 2007: AIA Honor Awards - Eight of the 11 projects are schools and educational facilities, plus the Bloomberg Tower interior, Peter Eisenman's Berlin Memorial and more.
• 12 January 2007: The Jarvis Street Campus at Canada's National Ballet School (NBS) received the 2007 AIA Institute Honor Award
• 5 January 2007: Mexican architect Enrique Norten Bags two waterfront competitions
• 4 January 2007: Prepare to vote for "City of the Future"
• 1 January 2007: Zaha Hadid unveils plans for an Art museum in Caligari, Italy
• 1 January 2007: Swiss Ambassador's Residence in Washington D.C. by Steven Holl
• January 2006 – after more than a year of renovations, Bellevue Palace once again becomes the residence of the President of Germany

2006

• 18 December 2006: Prince Charles is to create ‘eco-castle’ [2]
• 27 April 2006: Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center
• 11 October 2006: In Melbourne, Australia, the Eureka Tower residential building is officially opened. At 297.5m (976ft), the structure is the second tallest skyscraper in the Southern Hemisphere, and the second tallest residential building in the world.
• 9 October 2006: Official opening of Hearst Tower, the first LEED Gold rated building in New York City
• 24 August 2006: The 2006 Stirling Prize shortlist is announced.
• 10 August 2006: Louis I Kahn's Trenton Bath House is purchased by Mercer County and Ewing Township, ensuring its Restoration.
• 25 July 2006: Herzog & de Meuron are announced as winners of the Tate Modern extension competition.
• 26 May 2006 Berlin Hauptbahnhof opens in Berlin. It is the largest train station in Europe.
• 11 October 2006: A small aircraft crashes into a building at 524 East 72nd Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City killing 2 people. FBI states that there is so far no reason to suspect terrorism, and the alert level hasn't been raised. The plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. Lidle is reported to have been the pilot, and along with his flight instructor, was killed in the crash. (CBS 2 New York) (CNN) (The New York Times) (ESPN)
• 23 October 2006: In Panama, a proposal to double the capacity of the Panama Canal is approved in a national referendum
• 14 October 2006: The Richard Rogers Partnership wins the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 at Barajas Airport