2009 in architecture

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The year 2009 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• March 3  – Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (1971) collapses.
• April 6  – 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in Italy; dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapses for the second time.
• May 26  – Construction work at Louvre Abu Dhabi officially begins.
• October 21  – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City celebrates its 50th anniversary (after a three-year restoration effort).
• November – The second World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.
• Burj Khalifa is set to open several different times in 2009, and ultimately postponed until 2010.
• The Russia Tower gets cancelled due to unknown reasons.
• PLP Architecture founded in London.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2009

Buildings opened

Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

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• January – Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, the largest and most expensive embassy in the world, opens.
• January 17  – Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.

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• January 22  – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, opens to the public.
• January 31  – Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens.
• February 15  – Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, inaugurated.
• February 22  – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City reopens after major renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• March 7  – Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, designed by Duncan G. Stroik, is dedicated.
• March 14  – New Cardiff Central Library in St. David's, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Building Design Partnership, opens to the public.
• April 2  – New Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team in the Bronx, designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport), opens.
• April 13  – Citi Field, new home of the New York Mets baseball team in Queens, opens.
• April 25  – Prada Transformer building in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens.
• April 30  – 300 New Jersey Avenue office building on the mall in Washington, D.C., designed by British architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens.

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• May 21  – Museum Brandhorst in Munich, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, opens.
• June 8  – First segment of the High Line Park in Chelsea, Manhattan opens.
• June 12  – Hafod Eryri at the summit of Snowdon in Wales, designed by Ray Hole Architects, is opened. ^[1]
• June 21  – New Acropolis Museum in Athens, designed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis, opens to the public.
• July – New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in Kuching, Malaysia, officially opened.
• August 4  – The Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy Municipality, Norway, designed by Steven Holl, opens.
• August 15  – 41 Cooper Square, the new Cooper Union academic building in New York City, designed by Thom Mayne, has its opening ceremony.
• September 9  – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl, opens.

Liège-Guillemins railway station in Liège, Belgium

• September 18  – Liège-Guillemins railway station in Belgium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has its opening ceremony.
• September 29  – Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg, designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto, opens.
• October 16  – Extensive interior reconstruction of the Neues Museum, Berlin, to the designs of David Chipperfield, is officially opened.
• November 7  – Extensive three-year internal rebuild and expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to the designs of Rick Mather, is completed.
• November 14  – Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (gallery) in Nottingham, England, designed by Caruso St John, opens.
• December – Jamieson Place (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta
• December 5  – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, part of the CityCenter complex in Paradise, Nevada, opens.
• December 16  – The CityCenter urban complex in Paradise, Nevada, designed by Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, opens.
• date unknown – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum library at Humboldt University of Berlin, designed by Max Dudler.

Buildings completed

• May 21  – Stanbrook Abbey, Wass, North Yorkshire, England, first stage, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. ^[2]
• May 27  – Cowboys Stadium, new home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, designed by HKS.
• October 21  – Soccer City (FNB Stadium) in Johannesburg, South Africa, host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
• November – MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid.
• November 1  – Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi in the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, designed by Asymptote Architecture of New York.
• December 27  – Darunaman Mosque in northern Thailand.
• date unknown
  • The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Voronezh, Russia.
  • Legacy Tower, Chicago, designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz.
  • The Tower, Meridian Quay, Swansea, Wales, designed by Latitude Architects.
  • Punta della Dogana art museum in Venice, restored by Tadao Ando.
  • Woodward's Building in Vancouver, Canada.
  • Bateman's Row (home and studio) in Shoreditch, London, designed for themselves by Theis + Khan Architects. ^[3]
  • Buildings in Spain designed by Alberto Campo Baeza
    • "Between Cathedrals", Cádiz.
    • MA Museum, Granada.
    • Rufo House, Toledo.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal  – Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
• Alvar Aalto Medal  – Tegnestuen Vandkunsten
• Architecture Firm Award  – Olson Kundig Architects
• Driehaus Architecture Prize  – Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil ^[4]
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme  – François Ascher
• Emporis Skyscraper Award  – Aqua
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Snøhetta
• Lawrence Israel Prize - Gaetano Pesce
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award  – Zaha Hadid
• Pritzker Prize  – Peter Zumthor
• RAIA Gold Medal  – Ken Maher
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal  – Álvaro Siza Vieira
• Stirling Prize  – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Robert Irwin.
• Twenty-five Year Award  – Faneuil Hall Marketplace
• Vincent Scully Prize  – Christopher Alexander

Deaths

• January 14  – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect (born 1937)
• February 3  – Earl Flansburgh, Boston architect (born 1931) ^[5]
• February 23  – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (born 1924)
• July 9  – H. T. Cadbury-Brown, English architect (born 1913)
• July 15  – Julius Shulman, California architectural photographer (born 1910)
• August 3  – Charles Gwathmey, American architect (born 1938)
• August 16  – Mualla Eyüboğlu, one of the first female Turkish architects ^[6] (born 1919)
• November 27  – Maxwell M. Kalman, Québécois architect (born 1906)
• December 8  – Claude Vasconi, French architect (born 1940)

See also

• Timeline of architecture

References

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2. Dale, Sharon (2016-04-11). "How the building of a North York Moors convent was a modern day miracle". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
3. Frearson, Amy (2012-03-08). "Designed in Hackney: Batemans Row by Theis and Khan Architects". dezeen . London. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
4. "Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture - Recipients". Notre Dame School of Architecture. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
5. Campbell, Robert (18 February 2009). "Earl Flansburgh; architect designed education facilities". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
6. "Good Morning --Turkey Press Scan on Aug 17". Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review . 2009-08-17. Retrieved 2009-09-01.