2006 in architecture

The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Eureka Tower, Southbank, Melbourne

• January 16 - 10 Holloway Circus is completed in Birmingham, England, designed by Ian Simpson Architects.
• February 5 - Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 inaugurated, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers.
• March 1 - Senedd, the National Assembly building in Cardiff, Wales is completed, by architect Richard Rogers.
• April 4 - Busch Stadium, designed by Populous (formerly HOK sport), opened as the new home of the St. Louis Cardinals.
• May 4 - Hearst Tower employees move-in to the Norman Foster designed, diagrid building near Columbus Circle, in New York City.
• May 5 - Aurora Tower opened to the public as the tallest building in Brisbane, Australia.
• May 23 - 7 World Trade Center officially opened the new building designed by SOM at noon, with a free concert.
• May 26 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) opening ceremony. Design from the winning competition entry by the Hamburg architecture firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners.
• June 14 - Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts grand opening in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Canadian Diamond and Schmitt Architects.
• June 16 - The National Library of Belarus opened in Minsk, Belarus in the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron.
• June 26 - Savill Building opens at the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, with a gridshell roof designed by Glen Howells Architects.
• July 22 - Emirates Stadium, designed by Populous, opened in the London Borough of Islington for the Arsenal Football Club.
• Summer - House of Sweden (the Swedish embassy) completed in Washington, D.C., designed by Swedish architects Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.
• September - Museum of Modern Literature (Literaturmuseum der Moderne or LiMo) opened in Marbach, Germany, by British architect David Chipperfield.
• September 2 - Bishan Community Library opened in Singapore.
• October - Janelia Farm Research Campus completed in Loudoun County, Virginia, by Rafael Viñoly.
• October 5 - The Arsht Center opens in Downtown Miami, Florida as the third largest performing arts center in the United States.
• October 9 - Beetham Tower in Manchester, England, is completed, by architect Ian Simpson, who resides in the top penthouse.
• October 11 - Eureka Tower a 297.3 metres (975 ft) residential skyscraper, designed by Fender Katsalidis Architects, opens in Melbourne, Australia.
• October 26 - Klaus Advanced Computing Building officially opened on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology, by American architects Perkins+Will.
• November - Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a drop-in cancer care centre; Zaha Hadid's first built work in the United Kingdom.^[1]
• December - Megasport Arena completed in Moscow, Russia.
• December 1 - Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, designed by Architectus, opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• December 1 - Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse officially opened in Eugene, Oregon, designed by Morphosis.
• December 10 - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston completed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• Accordia housing development in Cambridge, England, phase 1 construction completed, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Maccreanor Lavington and Alison Brooks Architects (Stirling Prize 2008).
• America's Cup Building inaugurated in Valencia, Spain, designed by British architect David Chipperfield.
• KUMU (KUnstiMUuseum), is completed in Tallinn, Estonia, by Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori.

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.
• March 15 - Cirrus apartment building topped off in Helsinki, becoming the tallest building in Finland.
• 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.
• 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
• Emporis Skyscraper Award - Hearst Tower
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Francis Cuillier
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Frei Otto
• 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
• RAIA Gold Medal - Kerry Hill
• RIAS Award in Architecture - Page\Park Architects for Maggie's Centre, Inverness
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Toyo Ito
• Stirling Prize - Richard Rogers
• AIA Twenty-five Year Award - Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones
• Vincent Scully Prize - Phyllis Lambert

Births

Deaths

• April 25 - Jane Jacobs (born 1916)
• July 5 - Hugh Stubbins Jr.

See also: Architecture timeline

References