2006 in architecture

The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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 work 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.

Buildings

Eureka Tower, Southbank, Melbourne

• February 5 - Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 inaugurated, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers.
• March 1 - The Senedd, the National Assembly building in Cardiff, Wales, by architect Richard Rogers, is opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.^[1]
• 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 into 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 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at noon, with a free concert.
• May 26 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main 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 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.^[2]
• October 27 - Vesteda Tower a 90 m (300 ft) residential tower, designed by Jo Coenen, opens in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• November - Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a drop-in cancer care centre; Zaha Hadid's first built work in the United Kingdom.^[3]
• December 1
  • Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, designed by Architectus, opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  • Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse officially opened in Eugene, Oregon, designed by Morphosis.
• date unknown - America's Cup Building inaugurated in Valencia, Spain, designed by British architect David Chipperfield.^[4]

Buildings completed

• January 16 - 10 Holloway Circus is completed in Birmingham, UK, designed by Ian Simpson Architects.
• October 9 - Beetham Tower in Manchester, UK, by architect Ian Simpson, who himself resides in the top penthouse.
• December 10 - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston completed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• December - Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia.

Saint-Pierre, Firminy

• date unknown
  • Accordia housing development in Cambridge, UK, phase 1 construction, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Maccreanor Lavington and Alison Brooks Architects (Stirling Prize 2008).
  • Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, completed by José Oubrerie to a church design by Le Corbusier (died 1965) begun in 1971.
  • KUMU (KUnstiMUuseum), Tallinn, Estonia, by Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Antoine Predock
• Architecture Firm Award - Moore Ruble Yudell
• Driehaus Architecture Prize – Allan Greenberg^[5]
• 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
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Peter Zumthor
• AIA Twenty-five Year Award - Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones
• Vincent Scully Prize - Phyllis Lambert

Births

Deaths

• March 9 - Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian architect (born 1923)
• April 25 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies (born 1916)^[6]
• May 10 - Nisse Strinning, Swedish architect and designer (born 1917)
• July 5 - Hugh Stubbins, US architect (born 1912)

See also

• Architecture timeline

References