2020 in architecture

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The year 2020 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events[]

• November 16 – Work to dismantle the flanking walls of a pavilion erected by Tadao Ando at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre in England (2002) begins.^[1]

Buildings and structures[]

Australia

• Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, completed.
• Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, completed.

Belgium

• Alex guesthouse (private garden building), Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed.^[2]

Canada

• Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels.^[3]

Germany

• Berlin Brandenburg Airport completed and opened on 31 October.

Hong Kong

• M+ museum scheduled for completion.^[3]

India

• World One in Mumbai, the tallest building in India, is completed.

Italy

• Genoa-Saint George Bridge by Renzo Piano, over the Polcevera River in Genoa, replacing the Ponte Morandi which collapsed in 2018, completed and open to traffic on 3 August.

Japan

• The Kadokawa Culture Museum at Tokorozawa Sakura Town in Tokorozawa, Japan partially opened on 1 August and then fully opened on 6 November.^[4][5]

Lebanon

• Stone Garden (apartments), Beirut, designed by Lina Gotmeh, completed.^[6]

Mexico

• Torres Obispado in Monterrey, the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, completed.
• 'OUM Wellness', built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the first net-zero energy building (NZEB) in Latin America.^[7]

Norway

• Powerhouse Telemark, "energy positive" project in Porsgrunn designed by Snøhetta.^[3]

Peoples' Republic of China

• Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, designed by Ma Yansong.^[3]
• 1000 Trees, designed by Thomas Heatherwick in Shanghai.^[3]
• "Crystal" skyway at Raffles City Chongqing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened to public June.^[8]

Sweden

• Norra Tornen, a pair of residential buildings in Stockholm designed by OMA, is completed

Taiwan

• Tainan Spring (adaptive reuse), Tainan, designed by MVRDV, completed.^[9]

United Arab Emirates

• The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid.^[3]
• Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.^[3]

United Kingdom

• Newfoundland Quay diagrid skyscraper rental apartments in London Docklands, designed by Horden Cherry Lee, projected for completion.
• Town House, combining a library and dance studios, Kingston University London, designed by Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell), opened to students 6 January.^[10]
• Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), opened 5 March.^[11]

United States

• 111 West 57th Street in New York City, supertall residential building, the thinnest skyscraper in the world, projected for completion.

Awards[]

• AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell (U.S.)
• Architecture Firm Award AIA – Architecture Research Office
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ong-ard Satrabhandhu
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme –
• Grand Prix national de l'architecture –
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Postponed until October 2021^[12]
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara^[13]
• RAIA Gold Medal – John Wardle
• RIAS Award for Architecture – cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell)^[14]
• Stirling Prize – RIBA announced that the Stirling Prize awards had been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[15][16]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – WEISS/MANFREDI
• Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Eric Owen Moss Architects for Conjunctive Points – The New City^[17]

Exhibitions[]

• 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.^[18]

Deaths[]

• February 21 – Yona Friedman, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923)^[19]
• March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect (born 1927)^[20]
• March 26 – Michael Sorkin, 71, American architect (born 1948)
• March 28 – Michael McKinnell, 84, American architect (born 1935)
• April 4 – Bashirul Haq, 77, Bangladeshi architect (born 1942)
• April 10 – Rifat Chadirji, 93, Iraqi architect (born 1926)
• April 12 – Justus Dahinden, 94, Swiss architect, teacher and writer (born 1925)
• August 4 – Jean-Marc Bonfils, 57, Lebanese architect (born 1963)
• September 2 – Christian Liaigre, 77, French architect and interior designer (born 1943)^[21]
• December 27 – Vikram Lall - Indian architect (Akshardham temple), (Birthdate not disclosed)
• December 29 – Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect (born 1963)

See also[]

• Timeline of architecture

References[]