2004 in architecture

The year 2004 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

30 St Mary Axe

• April 28 - 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London (the Swiss Re building), designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
• May 1 - Europa Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, the tallest building in the Baltic States (2004-present), is opened.
• May 8 - Forum Building, by Herzog & de Meuron, inaugurated in Barcelona during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.
• May 23 - Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.
• September - Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, designed by Will Alsop of Alsop Architects, is completed.
• October 9 - Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, by Enric Miralles, opened.
• October 14 - Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork, Ireland, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey, is opened.
• November 18 - Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, by James Polshek, is opened.
• November 20 - Expansion and renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
• November 28 - Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales, designed by Jonathan Adams of Percy Thomas Partnership, is opened.
• December 14 - Millau Viaduct, by Norman Foster, at Millau, France is opened.
• December 17 - The Sage Gateshead, a concert hall designed by Foster and Partners, opens in North East England.
• December 31 - Taipei 101 is opened in Taiwan, and remains one of the tallest buildings in the world.
• Netherlands Embassy in Berlin opened, designed by Rem Koolhaas.
• The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China is topped out in a ceremony.
• 30 Hudson Street, New Jersey, USA (the Goldman Sachs Tower), Jersey City's tallest building at 238 metres, is completed.
• Reconstruction of Kingswood School, Dulwich, London, by De Rijke Marsh Morgan is completed.

Events

• January 28 - Transformation AGO: The Art Gallery of Ontario announces that Frank Gehry has designed a renovation and expansion of the gallery. Supposedly in the shape of an ice skate, the change is met with opposition by frequent benefactor Kenneth Thomson.
• March 24 - Demolition of the Brutalist Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, England (1966) begins.
• June - Plans for The Cloud, a "Fourth Grace" at Liverpool Pier Head in England by Will Alsop, are abandoned.^[1]

Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art & Design

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Samuel Mockbee (awarded posthumously).
• Architecture Firm Award - Lake Flato Architects.
• Driehaus Prize – Demetri Porphyrios^[2]
• Emporis Skyscraper Award - Taipei 101.
• Grand prix national de l'architecture - Patrick Berger.
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme - Christian de Portzamparc.
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Oscar Niemeyer.
• Pritzker Prize - Zaha Hadid.
• Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France - Shigeru Ban.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Antoinette Robain and Claire Guieysse, for the Centre National de la Danse de Pantin.
• RIAS Award for Architecture - Elder and Cannon Architects for St. Aloysius' College's Clavius Building, Glasgow.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Gregory Burgess.
• Royal Gold Medal - Rem Koolhaas.
• Stirling Prize - 30 St Mary Axe, London by Foster and Partners.
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Peter Walker.
• Vincent Scully Prize - Aga Khan.
• Twenty-five Year Award - East Building, National Gallery of Art

Deaths

• May 27 - Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, German American architect (born 1943)
• September 12 - Max Abramovitz, American architect (born 1908)

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