1994 in architecture
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The year 1994 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
Hauer-King House, London
- May 6 - The Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France is opened.
- September 4 - Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, designed by Renzo Piano opens as the longest building in the world.
- Channel 4 Building - home of the Channel 4 television company, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opened on Horseferry Road in Westminster, London.
- The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China is completed.
- The Shinjuku Park Tower in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan is completed.
- The World Trade Center México in Mexico City, Mexico is completed.
- The Qingdao TV Tower in Qingdao, China is completed.
- The International Saddam Tower in Baghdad, Iraq is completed.
- Igualada Cemetery is completed in Catalonia, designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.
- Hauer-King House in Canonbury, London, designed by Future Systems, is completed.
- The Maupoleum in Amsterdam is demolished.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal - Norman Foster.
- Architecture Firm Award - Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners for Waterloo Station, London.
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Charles Correa.
- Pritzker Prize - Christian de Portzamparc.
- Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Henri Gaudin|Henri and Bruno Gaudin.
- RAIA Gold Medal - Neville Quarry.
- Royal Gold Medal - Michael and Patricia Hopkins.
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Frank O. Gehry.
- Twenty-five Year Award - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Births
Deaths
- February 14 - Pietro Belluschi (born 1899)
- August 11 - Gordon Cullen (born 1914)
- October 24 - John Lautner (born 1911)
- December 10 - Henry Bernard, French architect, designer of the Palace of Europe (born 1912)