2007 in architecture
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The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings opened
- January 20 – Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA., USA, designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
- January 21 – The National Art Center, Tokyo, designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
- February 28 – San Francisco Federal Building, by Morphosis.
- March 8 – Limoges Concert Hall, France, by Bernard Tschumi Architects.
- March 9 – New Wembley Stadium, London (original stadium demolished in 2002).
- April 25 – IAC/InterActiveCorp headquarters opens in New York, by Gehry Partners.
- June 9 – Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. by Steven Holl Architects.
- June – Pawilon Wyspiański 2000, Kraków, Poland, by Krzysztof Ingarden.
- August 9 – Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England, by Henning Larsen.
- October – Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by David Adjaye.
- October 12 – Armed Forces Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, England, by Liam O'Connor Architects and Planning Consultants.
- October 17 – BMW Welt ("BMW World") exhibition facility in Munich, Germany, by Coop Himmelb(l)au.
- November 3 – Digital Beijing Building in China, by Pei Zhu.
- December 1 – The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, by SANAA.
- December 10 – Inauguration of major Marseille-Saint-Charles railway station's requalification.
Buildings completed
- Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall.
- Beetham Tower, Manchester by Ian Simpson.
- Kolumba (diocesan art museum) in Cologne, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor
- Wachendorf-Feldkapelle-Bruder-Klaus, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor
- FiftyTwoDegrees in Nijmegen, designed by Mecanoo
Events
- May 30 – The Saitta House at Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York built in 1899 is added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
- June 26 - The Museum of the History of Polish Jews groundbreaking ceremony is held in Warsaw. The building was completed in 2013.
- July 21 – Construction of Burj Khalifa surpasses the height of Taipei 101 (510 m) to become the tallest building in the world at 818m.
Exhibitions
Awards
The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York (built in 1899) has been on the National Register since 2007.
- AIA Gold Medal – Edward Larrabee Barnes
- Architecture Firm Award – Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects
- BNA Building of the Year (nl) - Vesteda Tower
- Driehaus Architecture Prize – Jaquelin T. Robertson[2]
- Emporis Skyscraper Award – Het Strijkijzer
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León
- Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Yves Lion
- Mies van der Rohe Prize – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for the MUSAC in León, Spain
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Herzog & de Meuron
- Pritzker Prize – Richard Rogers
- RAIA Gold Medal – Enrico Taglietti
- Royal Gold Medal – Herzog & de Meuron
- Stirling Prize – David Chipperfield Architects for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Zaha Hadid
- Twenty-five Year Award – Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vincent Scully Prize – Witold Rybczynski
Deaths
- June 26 – Lucien Hervé, French photographer of architecture (born 1910)
- June 20 – Margaret Helfand, Manhattan-based New York architect and urban planner (born 1947; colon cancer)
- August 11 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor, and marine scientist (born 1938)
- September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German rationalist architect and architectural theorist (born 1926)
- October 12 – Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa, Japanese architect and co-founder of the Metabolist Movement (born 1934)
- October 21 - Jorge Arango, Colombian-born US minimalist architect (born 1917)
References
- ↑ “Saitta House – Report Part 1" DykerHeightsCivicAssociation.com
- ↑ "Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture - Recipients". Notre Dame School of Architecture. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
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