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2011 architecture
The year 2011 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
February 6 – Cambodian officials claim that "a wing" of Preah Vihear (11th-century Hindu temple) has collapsed due to an alleged Thai bombardment in the 2008–2013 Cambodian–Thai border crisis.http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-02/07/c_13721518.htm Preah Vihear temple shelled in clashes between Cambodia and Thai News.xinhuanet.com Beijing 2011-02-07 2011-04-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20110514152846/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-02/07/c_13721518.htm 14 May 2011 dead Thai officials claim that the temple sustained only minor damage.
May – Broadcaster BBC North begins its move into Bridge House, Dock House and Quay House, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, England.BBC North http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/bbc-north.aspx?category=europe-and-russia Wilkinson Eyre Architects 2011-12-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20120423165251/http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/bbc-north.aspx?category=europe-and-russia 2012-04-23 dead
June 15 – St Paul's Cathedral in London completes its 15-year £40 million restoration project of cleaning and repair, among the largest such projects ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13782822 St Paul's Cathedral completes £40m restoration project BBC News London 2011-06-15 2018-05-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20110617180134/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13782822 2011-06-17 live
November – The fourth World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.
November 3–11 – Typhoon Haiyan causes widespread destruction in Southeast Asia. Among buildings seriously damaged is Guiuan Church in the Philippines.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2011
Buildings opened
thumb|Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
thumb|Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, Mexico
thumb|Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland
January 11 – Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, designed by HOK.
January 21 – Museum of Old and New Art, on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, designed by Nonda Katsalidis.
January 25 – New World Center, home of the New World Symphony Orchestra, at Miami Beach, Florida, designed by Frank Gehry.Christopher Hawthorne Architecture review: Frank Gehry's New World Center in Miami Beach https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jan-24-la-et-gehry-miami-review-20110124-story.html 2011-01-24 Los Angeles Times 2011-12-19
February 10 — The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University, designed by Diller Scofidio + RenfroBaum Deborah The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts opens at Brown https://news.brown.edu/articles/2011/01/granoff 27 October 2018 Brown University 25 January 2011 Brown University will officially open the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Feb. 10, 2011
February 28 – Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, designed by Fernando Romero.https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/26/museo-soumaya Museo Soumaya in Mexico City gets asymmetrical new building 26 November 2010 Wired 23 August 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005755/http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/26/museo-soumaya 5 March 2016 dead dmy-allCarlos Slim: At home with the world's richest man The Daily Telegraph London 21 February 2011 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/8335604/Carlos-Slim-At-home-with-the-worlds-richest-man.htmlCasey Nicholas Emperor's New Museum https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703300904576178381398949942 29 March 2011 The Wall Street Journal New York 3 March 2011Mexico's Carlos Slim Builds a Dazzling Art Palace Business Week New York 26 January 2010 http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2010/id20100120_875263.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20100129042610/http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2010/id20100120_875263.htm dead January 29, 2010Tuckman Jo Mexican billionaire's new museum gives The Thinker much to ponder https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/02/carlos-slim-mexico-art-museum 29 March 2011 The Guardian 2 March 2011 Londonhttp://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37450/carlos-slims-museo-soumaya-money-cant-buy-taste/?page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20121019230145/http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37450/carlos-slims-museo-soumaya-money-cant-buy-taste/?page=1 usurped October 19, 2012 Carlos Slim's Museo Soumaya: Money Can't Buy Taste April 12, 2011 ArtInfo
March 1 – Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, England, designed by Gifford and Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
April 16 – Turner Contemporary art gallery, in Margate, Kent, England, designed by David Chipperfield.Charlotte Higgins Amid tough times, gallery building boom brings hope for the future The Guardian London 10 April 2011 11
May 1 – New Lyric Theatre, Belfast, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey of Dublin.Rowan Moore Architecture The Observer London 2011-12-11 21 (The New Review)
May 21 – The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, West Yorkshire, England, designed by David Chipperfield.
May 31 – Ponte della Musica-Armando Trovajoli across the Tiber in Rome, Italy, designed by BuroHappold Engineering and Powell-Williams Architects.
June – Windmill Hill archive centre, Waddesdon, England, designed by Stephen Marshall.Whistle down the windmill World Architecture News http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/2011/16869/stephen-marshall-architects-llp/waddesdon-manor-windmill-hill-in-aylesbury.html 2015-09-29
June 16 – Gothenburg Mosque, Sweden.
June 20 – Riverside Museum, the new development of the Glasgow Museum of Transport in Scotland, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.
June 25 – Peace Bridge across the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
July 19 – New Museum of Liverpool, at Liverpool Pier Head, England, designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold.Museum of Liverpool schedule and key dates http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/about/capitalprojects/mol/schedule.aspx National Museums Liverpool 2011-07-19
August 27 – Rustavi Sioni, church in Rustavi, Georgia, designed by Besarion Menabde, Nikoloz Abashidze and Nikolos Dadiani (consecration date).
September – firstsite new art gallery, Colchester, England, designed by Rafael Viñoly.
September 11 – National September 11 Memorial, Reflecting Absence, on the World Trade Center site in New York City, USA, designed by architect Michael Arad with landscape architect Peter Walker (dedication date).
September 13 – Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, Stratford, London.
October 12 – Royal Opera House Muscat opens in Muscat, Oman.
October 20 — The Human Ecology Building at Cornell University is dedicated. Designed by Gruzen-Samton Architects (IBI Group).Boscia Ted Human Ecology Building advances science and design https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/college-human-ecology-unveils-new-building 21 August 2018 Cornell University 11 October 2011 Ithaca, New York The building, which will be officially dedicated Oct. 20 with a ribbon cutting, was designed by the architecture firm Gruzen Samton
December 21 – Capital Gate skyscraper hotel and office building, in Abu Dhabi.
Buildings completed
thumb|Olympic Stadium (London), England
thumb|Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain
thumb|Aberdeen University New Library in Scotland
thumb|ArcelorMittal Orbit at Olympic Park, London, England
January
City of Westminster College, Paddington Green Campus, London, designed by schmidt hammer lassen architects.
Heron Tower in the City of London, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
February
8 Spruce Street, a skyscraper in New York City, USA, designed by Frank Gehry.Ouroussoff Nicolai Nicolai Ouroussoff https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/arts/design/10beekman.html?_r=1&ref=arts Downtown Skyscraper For the Digital Age The New York Times 2011-02-09 2011-12-19
Sunset Chapel, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, designed by BNKR Arquitectura.Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico http://www.evolo.us/architecture/sunset-chapel-in-acapulco-mexico-bnkr-arquitectura/ eVolo 2011-03-02 2015-04-10
March 29 – London Olympic Stadium, designed by Populous.
April – Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain, designed by Jürgen Mayer.
July 6 – Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, the tallest building in Panama and Latin America.
July 27 – London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid.
September
CMA CGM Tower in Marseille, designed by Zaha Hadid.
Aberdeen University New Library in Scotland, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects.
October 20 — Milstein Hall at Cornell University, designed by Rem KoolhaasAloi Daniel Milstein Hall now complete with state-of-the-art auditorium https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/10/auditorium-completes-milstein-koolhaas-visit 28 June 2018 Cornell University 13 October 2011
October 28 – ArcelorMittal Orbit, designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond, erected at Olympic Park, London.
November
Canada Water Library in London Docklands, designed by Piers Gough of CZWG.Rowan Moore Rowan Moore Canada Water library – review https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/dec/04/canada-water-library-review The Observer London 2011-12-04 2016-07-07
Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse in Buffalo, New York, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
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N M Rothschild & Sons' New Court banking headquarters in the City of London, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA, completed.Rowan Moore An office that's right on the money The Observer London 2011-11-27 42 (The New Review)
Brockholes Visitor Centre, a floating wooden nature reserve centre designed by Adam Khan of Arca, opens near Preston, Lancashire, England.Rowan Moore Brockholes nature reserve visitor centre – review https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/may/01/brockholes-preston-review-rowan-moore The Observer London 2011-05-01 2011-12-19
Eighth Avenue Place East in Calgary, Alberta
Maggie's Centres, drop-in cancer care centres in Great Britain
Maggie's Gartnavel, Glasgow, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA.
Maggie's Nottingham, designed by Piers Gough and Paul Smith.
Maggie's South West Wales, Swansea, designed by Kisho Kurokawa (opens December 9).
Temporary Serpentine Pavilion in London, designed by Peter Zumthor.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jun/27/serpentine-gallery-peter-zumthor-garden Jonathan Glancey Jonathan Glancey Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility The Guardian London 2011-06-27 2011-12-19
Folly for a Flyover, a 'pop-up' temporary arts centre in East London, England, designed by Assemble.
New Hospital Pavilion, University of Chicago Medical Center, designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
University of Arizona Science Center, Tucson, designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
The Crystal, Copenhagen, Denmark (part of Nykredit headquarters), designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
Kravis Center, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
Awards
AIA Gold Medal – Fumihiko Maki
Architecture Firm Award – BNIM Architects
Carbuncle Cup – MediaCityUK
Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Robert A. M. Stern
Emporis Skyscraper Award – 8 Spruce Street New York City designed by Frank Gehry
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – David Chipperfield
Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Michel Desvigne
Lawrence Israel Prize – David Rockwell
LEAF Award, Overall Winner – OBR Open Building Research
Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Ricardo Legorreta
Pritzker Architecture Prize – Eduardo Souto de Moura
RAIA Gold Medal – Graeme Gunn
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – David Chipperfield
Stirling Prize – Zaha Hadid for Evelyn Grace Academyhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/8802248/Stirling-Prize-Zaha-Hadid-is-a-worthy-winner.html Stirling Prize: Zaha Hadid is a worthy winner Ellis Woodman 2 October 2011 telegraph.co.uk 18 October 2024
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Maya Lin
International Union of Architects UIA Gold Medal – Álvaro Siza Vieira
AIA Twenty-five Year Award – John Hancock Tower designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
UIA Gold Medal – Álvaro Siza Vieira
Vincent Scully Prize – William K. Reilly
Births
births in 2011
Category:2011 births
Deaths
June 6
Stefan Kuryłowicz, Polish architect (born 1949)
Amnon Niv, Israeli architect and urban designer (born 1930)
September 17 – Colin Madigan, Australian architect (born 1921)
September 27 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (born 1935)
October 2 – Efraín Recinos, Guatemalan architect (born 1928)
October 5 – Enver Faja, Albanian architect (born 1934)
October 24 – Bruno Weber, Swiss architect (born 1931)
November 25 – Karel Hubacek, Czech architect (born 1924)
December 12 – Gene Summers, American architect (born 1928)
December 26 – Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect, co-founder of the Metabolist group.http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/120105/art12010513040002-n1.htm ja:日本を代表する建築家、菊竹清訓氏が死去 83歳 建築運動「メタボリズム」をリード 2012-01-05 MSN ja 5 January 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120430055655/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/120105/art12010513040002-n1.htm 30 April 2012 (born 1928)
December 27 – Anne Tyng, American architect (born 1920)
December 30 – Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medalist (born 1931)
See also
Timeline of architecture
References
Category:21st-century architecture