1986 in architecture

The year 1986 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• March 15 - Hotel New World disaster: The six-story Lian Yak Building (1971) in Singapore, housing the Hotel New World, collapses in less than a minute due to structural failure, perhaps caused by a gas explosion, trapping 50 people and killing 33.
• undated
  • Construction work begins on Park Pobedy station in the Moscow Metro.^[1]
  • schmidt hammer lassen architects founded in Aarhus, Denmark.

Buildings opened

Lloyd's Building

• January 17 - The Buenos Aires Argentina Temple is dedicated by Thomas S. Monson.
• May 11 - The Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, in Barranquilla, Colombia.
• July 29 - Glasgow Sheriff Court Building in Glasgow, Scotland, formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• October 23 - The Beirut Memorial in Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA, is dedicated.^[2]
• October 26 - The nave of Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland, is consecrated.^[3]
• November 18 - The Lloyd's Building in the City of London, UK
• December 24 - The Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India, designed by Fariborz Sahba.^[4]

Buildings completed

Robot Building, Bangkok, as seen from Silom Road

• Museum Tower in Miami, Florida, USA.
• Rialto Towers in Melbourne, Australia.
• Temasek Tower in Singapore.
• The AXA Center in New York City, United States.
• The Dakin Building in Brisbane, California, USA
• The Robot Building in Bangkok, Thailand.
• Nabemba Tower, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.^[5]
• The Fernmeldeturm Münster in Münster, Germany.
• The Tortoise Mountain TV Tower in Wuhan, China.
• The Town Pavilion in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
• Zendstation Roosendaal in Roosendaal, Netherlands.
• The Lipstick Building in New York City, New York, United States.
• 1221 Brickell Building in Miami, Florida, USA.
• 701 Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida, USA.
• Henbury Hall, Cheshire, England, designed by Julian Bicknell after Palladio as depicted by Felix Kelly.
• Russian State Scientific Center of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, Saint Petersburg, designed by B. I. Artiushin and S. V. Savin.
• Te Rata Bridge, King Country, New Zealand (collapsed 1994).^[6]

Awards

• Aga Khan Prize - Rifat Chadirji.
• AIA Gold Medal - Arthur Charles Erickson.
• Architecture Firm Award - Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis.
• Grand prix national de l'architecture - Adrien Fainsilber.
• Pritzker Prize - Gottfried Boehm.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Adrien Fainsilber.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Richard Butterworth.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Arata Isozaki.
• Twenty-five Year Award - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Births

Deaths

• February 6 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (born 1912)
• February 21 - Mart Stam, Dutch architect (born 1899)
• Werner Schindler, Swiss architect (born 1905)

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