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The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events.
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Buildings
- Beetham Tower in Birmingham, England, is completed.
- Beetham Tower in Manchester, England, is completed.
- Brisbane Square by architects Denton Corker Marshall in Brisbane, Australia, is completed.
- Senedd by Richard Rogers in Cardiff, Wales, in completed.
Events
- January 9 - Fire destroys Chicago's 1891 Pilgrim Baptist Church, designed by Louis Sullivan.
- January 31 - Ground breaks on Waterview Tower, and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago.
- April 10 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated greenway in New York City.
- April 27 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center.
- May 26 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof opens in Berlin. It is the largest train station in Europe.
- July 8 - The government of Abu Dhabi and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal - Antoine Predock.
- Architecture Firm Award - Moore Ruble Yudell.
- AIA Twenty-Five Year Award - Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones.
- Emporis Skyscraper Award - Hearst Tower.
- Pritzker Prize - Paulo Mendes da Rocha (born 1928) from São Paulo, Brasil.
- Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Orléans-la-Source Science Library by Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet.
- RIAS Award in Architecture - Page\Park for Maggie's Centre, Inverness.
- RAIA Gold Medal - Kerry Hill.
- Royal Gold Medal - Toyo Ito.
- Stirling Prize - Richard Rogers.
- Vincent Scully Prize - Phyllis Lambert.
Births
Deaths
- April 25 - Jane Jacobs (born 1916)
- July 5 - Hugh Stubbins Jr.
See also: Architecture timeline
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