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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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- People's 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
- 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
- 100 Liverpool Street office redevelopment in the City of London, designed by Hopkins Architects.[10]
- Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road (apartments), East London, designed by Henley Halebrown, completed.[11]
- 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.[12]
- Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), opened 5 March.[13]
- Falkirk Campus, Forth Valley College, Scotland, designed by Reiach & Hall, officially opened January.[14]
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[15]
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara[16]
- 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)[17]
- Stirling Prize – RIBA announced that the Stirling Prize awards had been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18][19]
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – WEISS/MANFREDI
- Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Eric Owen Moss Architects for Conjunctive Points – The New City[20]
Exhibitions
- 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[21]
Deaths
- February 21 – Yona Friedman, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923)[22]
- March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect (born 1927)[23]
- 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)[24]
- December 27 – Vikram Lall - Indian architect (Akshardham temple), (Birthdate not disclosed)
- December 29 – Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect (born 1963)
See also
References
- ↑ Pidd, Helen (2020-11-16). "Manchester prepares for fall of its 'Berlin Wall'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- ↑ "Alex Guesthouse / atelier vens vanbelle". ArchDaily. 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The most anticipated buildings set to shape the world in 2020 CNN Style, Dec 31, 2019
- ↑ "Kuma-designed pop culture museum opens early in Saitama | the Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis".
- ↑ "Japan's New Kadokawa Culture Museum is Housed in an Angular, Granite Structure Designed by Kengo Kuma". 21 July 2020.
- ↑ "'stone garden' tower expresses the archaeological language of beirut". designboom. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- ↑ Tendrá Nuevo León el primer edificio ‘Cero Energía’ de México Archived 2020-01-13 at the Wayback Machine El Mañana (Mexico), 12 Jan 2020
- ↑ Lang, Fabienne (2020-06-08). "World's Highest Horizontal Skyscraper at 250 Meters Opens in China". Interesting Engineering. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
- ↑ "Tainan Spring / MVRDV". ArchDaily. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- ↑ "100 Liverpool Street". Hopkins Architects. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ↑ "Hackney New Primary Sch & 333 Kingsland Rd London 2015–2020". Henley Halebrown. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ↑ Jenkinson, Orlando (2021-09-16). "Kingston University opens new 'Town House' building". Surrey Comet. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
- ↑ "New stroke research centre opens in Oxford". NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
- ↑ Wilson, Rob (2021-04-12). "Reiach and Hall completes Falkirk campus for Forth Valley College". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ↑ "Leaf Awards – 14th October 2021, London". Leafawards.arena-international.com. 2021-10-14. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
- ↑ Wainwright, Oliver (4 March 2020). "Irish women win Pritzker prize, architecture's highest honour". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ↑ Block, India (2019-10-02). "Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ↑ "RIBA guidance on coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak". architecture.com.
- ↑ Richard Waite (30 September 2020). "RIBA cancels 2020 Stirling Prize". architectsjournal.co.uk.
- ↑ "Eric Owen Moss Architects takes home the AIA's 2020 Twenty-Five Year Award". 8 September 2020.
- ↑ "Rem Koolhaas and AMO Explore Radical Change in the World's Nonurban Territories in the Guggenheim Exhibition Countryside, the Future".
- ↑ "Yona Friedman, French Architect and Urban Planner Passes Away at 96". ArchDaily. February 21, 2020.
- ↑ "Vittorio Gregotti, renowned Italian architect, dies of coronavirus at 92". The Guardian. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ↑ "Legendary French Minimalist Designer Christian Liaigre Dies at 77". Interior Design. 4 September 2020.
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