2001 in architecture

The year 2001 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Milwaukee Art Museum

Gateshead Millennium Bridge

• March 17 – Eden Project opens to the public in St Austell, Cornwall, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
• April – Magna Science Adventure Centre opens to the public in Rotherham, Yorkshire, designed by Wilkinson Eyre. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
• May 4 – Milwaukee Art Museum opens the Quadracci Pavilion, the first completed American project by Santiago Calatrava.
• June 28 – Gehry Tower (designed by Frank Gehry) opens in Hanover, Germany.
• June 30 – National Space Centre opens in Leicester, England, by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
• September 17 – Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne, England, designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford, opens to the public. It wins the 2002 Stirling Prize.
• October 30 – Redevelopment of Gasometer, Vienna, by Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Manfred Wehdorn and Wilhelm Holzbauer is completed.^[1]
• November 15 – Palms Casino Resort opens in Paradise, Nevada, designed by The Jerde Partnership.
• November 21 – Cologne Tower inaugurated; designed by Kohl & Kohl and Jean Nouvel.
• December 11 – American Folk Art Museum in New York City inaugurated; designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
• 88 Wood Street office building completed in the City of London by Richard Rogers
• Menara Telekom building opened in Kuala Lumpur.
• One Wall Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by architects Perkins+Will Canada.
• Tower 2000 is completed as the first building in the Moscow International Business Centre.
• Work on the Nidaros Cathedral, in Trondheim, Norway, is officially completed.
• Exhibition building at Scotland's National Museum of Rural Life completed by Page\Park Architects.

Events

• September 11 – September 11 attacks: World Trade Center in New York (designed by Minoru Yamasaki) is destroyed, and The Pentagon is heavily damaged by hijacked airliners.

Awards

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Geoffrey Bawa.
• AIA Gold Medal – Michael Graves.
• Architecture Firm Award – Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture.
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – One Wall Centre.
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Jean-Louis Subileau.
• Mies van der Rohe Prize – Rafael Moneo.
• Pritzker Prize – Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
• RAIA Gold Medal – Keith Cottier.
• Royal Gold Medal – Jean Nouvel.
• Stirling Prize – Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Magna Centre.
• Vincent Scully Prize – Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Weyerhaeuser Headquarters

Births

Deaths

• January 11 – Denys Lasdun (born 1914)
• January 18 – Morris Lapidus (born 1902)
• February 4 – Iannis Xenakis (born 1922)
• December 30 – Samuel Mockbee (born 1944)

See also

• Timeline of architecture

References