2014 in architecture

The year 2014 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings

Gran Torre Santiago

Australia

• Infinity Tower, the tallest building in Brisbane, is completed.
• November 11 - Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology, Sydney, designed by Frank Gehry, is completed.^[1]

Canada

• September 18 - Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, opens.
• September 19 - Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, designed by Antoine Predock, opens.

Chile

• Gran Torre Santiago, the tallest building in South America and Latin America, projected for completion.

France

• October 28 - Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.

Germany

• Taunusturm in Frankfurt is completed.

Iran

Tabiat Bridge in process of construction.

• Tabiat Bridge in Tehran opens.

Panama

• October 2 - Biomuseo in Panama City, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.

Philippines

• July 21 - Philippine Arena, the world's largest indoor domed-arena, in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, is completed.

United Arab Emirates

• Dream Dubai Marina, supertall skyscraper in Dubai, projected for completion. If completed before World One will become the tallest residential building in the world upon completion.

United Kingdom

• Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, designed by Haworth Tompkins, completed and awarded Stirling Prize.
• Maggie's Oxford (palliative care centre), designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, opened.^[2]

United States

• October 10 - 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential buildings in the world is topped out.
• November 3 - One World Trade Center in New York City, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Daniel Libeskind, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, opens.
• One57, one of the tallest building in New York City becomes the tallest mixed-use (residential and hotel) skyscraper in the city.

Events

• 8 June - 23 November - Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by Rem Koolhaas^[3]
• 1 - 3 October - The seventh World Architecture Festival in Singapore

Exhibitions

• * December 3 - May 3, 2015 - "One Way: Peter Marino" at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.^[4]

Awards

• AIA Architecture Firm Award – Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
• AIA Gold Medal – Julia Morgan
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical architecture – Pier Carlo Bontempi
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Steven Holl
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Shigeru Ban
• Reed Award for classical architecture commitment - Ruan Yisan^[5]
• RAIA Gold Medal – Phil Harris and Adrian Welke
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph Rykwert
• Stirling Prize - Haworth Tompkins for Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Toyo Ito
• Twenty-five Year Award by AIA – Harry Weese for Washington Metro
• UIA Gold Medal – Ieoh Ming Pei
• Vincent Scully Prize from National Building Museum – Charlie Rose

Deaths

• January 10 - Kathryn Findlay, (b. 1953), British born architect working in Japan
• February 25 - Heikki Siren (b. 1918), Finnish architect
• March 20 - William Toomath, (b. 1925), New Zealand architect
• March 28
  • Robin Gibson, (b. 1930), Australian architect
  • Avraham Yaski, (b. 1927), Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic
• April 24 - Hans Hollein, (b. 1934), Austrian architect^[6]
• April 28 - Frederic Schwartz, (b. 1951), American architect, author and city planner
• July 26 - Sir Richard MacCormac, (b. 1938), British architect
• August 18 - Kurt Meyer (b. 1922), Swiss-born architect working in the United States and Nepal^[7]
• September 6 - Édith Girard, (b. 1949), French architect
• September 27 - Taylor Hardwick, (b. 1925), American architect
• December 24 - Ricardo Porro, (b. 1925), Cuban architect working in France

References