2008 in architecture

none January 2021 2008 architecture The year 2008 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events February 10–11 – 2008 Namdaemun fire: The wooden superstructure of the 550-year-old Namdaemun gate in Seoul (South Korea) is destroyed by arson. June 20 – The Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 comes into force in the UK. July 8 – The first in Francesco da Mosto's television series Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage is broadcast. October 2 – The William L. Slayton House, designed by I. M. Pei in 1958, is listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places.https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2008-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf Announcements and actions on properties for the National Register of Historic Places, October 10, 2008 October 13, 2008 New listings National Park Service October – The inaugural World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona. Buildings and structures thumb|Fuglsang Art Museum in Lolland, Denmark thumb|New National Opera House in Oslo, Norway thumb |right|Beijing National Stadium Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2008 Buildings opened January 1 – China Central Television Headquarters building in Beijing, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens. January 12 – New Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station officially inaugurated. January – Fuglsang Art Museum in Lolland, Denmark, designed by Tony Fretton, inaugurated. March 26 – Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport opens, designed by Foster + Partners. March 27 – Heathrow Terminal 5, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opens. April 12 – New National Opera House in Oslo opens. April – Maggie's Centre in London, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens (Stirling Prize 2009). June – Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened. June 25 – Chords Bridge ("Bridge of Strings") in Jerusalem, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated. June 28 – Beijing National Stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron (known as the "Bird's Nest"), opened for the 2008 Summer Olympics. August 1 – Beijing South railway station, designed by Terry Farrell, opened. September A. P. Møller School, Schleswig, Germany, designed by C. F. Møller Architects. Darwin Centre II, Natural History Museum, London, designed by C. F. Møller Architects.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7594295.stm Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open BBC 2009-01-20 2008-09-02 September 11 – Ponte della Costituzione in Venice, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated. September 24 – Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. September 27 – California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, designed by Renzo Piano. October 16 – Weill Hall, Cornell University, designed by Richard MeierCampbell Jennifer Weill Hall and institute dedicated in celebration of 'an icon for our future' https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/10/cutting-dna-celebrates-weill-hall-dedication September 25, 2018 Cornell University October 17, 2008 November – New Ahus, Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, opened.http://www.estatemedia.no/Nyheter/articlefullview.aspx?ind=Y&aid=678 Frisk arkitektur med symptomer Estate Nyheter January 20, 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090109004414/http://www.estatemedia.no/Nyheter/ArticleFullView.aspx?ind=Y&aid=678 January 9, 2009 November 11 – Curve (theatre) in Leicester, England, designed by Rafael Viñoly, is opened. November 20 – Peter B. Lewis Library at Princeton University, by Frank Gehry, officially dedicated. November 22 – Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, in Qatar, designed by I. M. Pei, is officially opened.Qatar's Islamic Art Museum to open Nov. '08 January 23, 2008 Kuwait News Agency http://www.kuna.net.kw/newsagenciespublicsite/ArticleDetails.aspx?Language=en&id=1878730 September 12, 2008 March 16, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200316110655/https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1878730&language=en dead The Public, West Bromwich, England, designed by Will Alsop, opens first stages to public. Buildings completed thumb|Assut de l'Or in Valencia, Spain thumb|Kranhaus in Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany January 28 – Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the "Water Cube", in readiness for the 2008 Summer Olympics. August 28 – Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China, designed by William Pedersen. November – Transformation AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) renovation by Frank Gehry. December – Assut de l'Or Bridge in Valencia, Spain, designed by Santiago Calatrava. date unknown Remodelling of Lumen United Reformed Church in Bloomsbury, London, designed by Theis + Khan Architects.https://www.dezeen.com/2008/12/12/lumen-united-reformed-church-by-theis-and-khan-architects/ Lumen United Reformed Church by Theis and Khan Architects Rose Etherington dezeen London December 12, 2008 April 9, 2020 Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels. Linked Hybrid, a nine-tower high-rise housing project by Steven Holl Architects, in Beijing, China. 459 West 18th Street, Manhattan, a high-rise condominium designed by Della Valle + Bernheimer. Living Shangri-La in Vancouver, Canada Torre Caja Madrid (Caja Madrid Tower), Spain, designed by Foster and Partners. First Kranhaus in Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany, designed by Alfons Linster and Hadi Teherani of BRT Architekten. Westside shopping and leisure complex, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Daniel Libeskind. Olnik Spanu House, Garrison, New York, United States, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. Library and Learning Center of the University of Vienna, by Zaha Hadid Moliner House, Zaragoza, Spain, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. The Grey House, Highgate, London. Designed by Eldridge Smerin.Anderson Ros https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/03/house-architecure-highgate-cemetery https://web.archive.org/web/20250722141033/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/03/house-architecure-highgate-cemetery Blithe spirit 3 January 2009 The Guardian 31 October 2025 22 July 2025Hazel Davis and Lucy Alexander Karl would not be amused https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503733738/TTDA? 4 November 2025 The Times 69403 15 August 2008 114 Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Richard Meier AIA Gold Medal – Renzo Piano (Italy) Architecture Firm Award – KieranTimberlake Associates Driehaus Architecture Prize – Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Emporis Skyscraper Award – Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – David Mangin Lawrence Israel Prize – AvroKO LEAF Award, Grand Prix – schmidt hammer lassen for Performers House Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Peter Zumthor Pritzker Prize – Jean Nouvel Rome Prize for architecture – Frederick B. Fisher RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Johnson RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edward Cullinan Stirling Prize – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington for Accordia housing development, CambridgeGlancey Jonathan 13 October 2008 Stirling prize 2008: At last, homes https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/oct/12/stirling-prize-accordia-architecture The Guardian 18 October 2024 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Gro Harlem Brundtland Twenty-five Year Award – The Atheneum UIA Gold Medal – Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon Vincent Scully Prize – Robert A. M. Stern Births Deaths January 1 – Harald Deilmann, German architect (born 1920) January 30 – Fernando Higueras, Spanish architect (born 1930) February 9 – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (born 1932)Ċumpaqq passes away https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 Times of Malta February 10, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20200721134854/https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 July 21, 2020 March 5 – Nader Khalili, Iranian architect, writer, and humanitarian (born 1936) March 24 – Victor Christ-Janer, American modernist architect (born 1915) March 29 – Ralph Rapson, American architect (born 1914) March 31 – David Todd, American architect (born 1915) May 30 – Rodney Gordon, English architect (born 1933) June 15 – Walter Netsch, American architect (born 1920) July 6 – George Tibbits, Australian composer and architect (born 1933) September 18 – Abdur Rahman Hye, Pakistani architect (born 1919) November 14 – Sir Bernard Feilden, English conservation architect (born 1919) November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (born 1918) See also Timeline of architecture References Category:21st-century architecture