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2020 in architecture
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The year
2020 in architecture
involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Contents
Events
Buildings and structures
Awards
Exhibitions
Deaths
See also
References
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
Crown Sydney
Vancouver House
See also:
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2020
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
]
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
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
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
Timeline of architecture
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2022-07-26
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.
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"Eric Owen Moss Architects takes home the AIA's 2020 Twenty-Five Year Award"
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"Rem Koolhaas and AMO Explore Radical Change in the World's Nonurban Territories in the Guggenheim Exhibition Countryside, the Future"
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.
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