2010 in architecture

none September 2020 2010 architecture The year 2010 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events 12 May – Stephen T. Ayers becomes the 11th Architect of the Capitol.http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/press-room/Stephen-Ayers-confirmed-by-Senate.cfm Stephen T. Ayers Confirmed by United States Senate to Serve as 11th Architect of the Capitol 2013-08-05 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120315130836/http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/press-room/Stephen-Ayers-confirmed-by-Senate.cfm 15 March 2012 June – Broadcasting Tower, Leeds, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building in the World award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.CTBUH 9th Annual Awards, 2010 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat http://www.ctbuh.org/Events/Awards/2010Awards/tabid/1571/language/en-GB/Default.aspx 2007-06-15 November – The third World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2010 Buildings thumb |right|Burj Khalifa thumb|right|The Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore 4 January – Burj Khalifa (originally known as Burj Dubai) opens in the United Arab Emirates as the tallest man-made structure in the world (2010–present), at 828 m (2,717 ft). 6 February – New building of Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, Florida, designed by Stanley Saitowitz, opens to the public. 27 April – Marina Bay Sands resort, Singapore, designed by Moshe Safdie, has a soft opening. 12 May – Centre Pompidou-Metz, designed by Shigeru Ban, is inaugurated. May – Central Saint Giles designed by Renzo Piano, completed in Central London. May – MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, designed by Zaha Hadid, opens to the public. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/06/maxxi-rome-zaha-hadid Rowan Moore Zaha Hadid's new Roman gallery joins the pantheon of the greats The Observer 6 June 2010 21 December 2011 June – Strata SE1, residential apartments with integral wind turbines, designed by BFLS, completed in the London Borough of Southwark. September – Evelyn Grace Academy, a London school designed by Zaha Hadid, opens. It wins the 2011 Stirling Prize.Ellis Woodman Stirling Prize: Zaha Hadid is a worthy winner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/8802248/Stirling-Prize-Zaha-Hadid-is-a-worthy-winner.html The Daily Telegraph 2 October 2011 20 December 2011 October – Maggie's, a drop-in cancer care centre in Cheltenham, England, designed by Sir Richard MacCormac's MJP Architects, opens. 28 October – Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, New York, designed by Baird Sampson Neuert of Toronto, dedicated.Plantations dedicates new ultra-green welcome center https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/10/plantations-dedicates-new-welcome-center 1 July 2018 Cornell University 29 October 2010 10 November – Sagrada Família in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí (d. 1926), is dedicated as a basilica and expiatory church following completion of the vault. 12 November – Canton Tower opens for the 2010 Asian Games. December – Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, designed by Stanton Williams, completed. It wins the 2012 Stirling Prize.Youngs Ian Sainsbury Laboratory wins Stirling architecture prize https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19923820 BBC News 14 October 2012 14 October 2012 Guangzhou International Finance Center in China, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects; it later wins the 2012 Lubetkin Prize. International Commerce Centre opens as the tallest building in Hong Kong. Centennial Place (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta. Kaufhaus Tyrol department store in Innsbruck, designed by David Chipperfield with Dieter Mathoi, opens. Dybkær Church, Silkeborg, Denmark, designed by Regnbuen Arkitekter. More than 70 exposition pavilions are completed for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China. Awards AIA Gold Medal – Peter Q. Bohlin (United States). Architecture Firm Award – Pugh + Scarpa Carbuncle Cup – Strata SE1 Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Rafael Manzano Martos Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Laurent Théry Lawrence Israel Prize – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Boogertman + Partners + Populous Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Toyo Ito Pritzker Architecture Prize – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) RAIA Gold Medal – Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare RIBA Royal Gold Medal – I. M. Pei Stirling Prize – Zaha Hadid for MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, ItalyEdwin Heathcote Hadid finally wins Stirling Prize https://www.ft.com/content/962728c2-cec0-11df-9be2-00144feab49a https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962728c2-cec0-11df-9be2-00144feab49a.html 10 December 2022 subscription Financial Times 3 October 2010 18 October 2024 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Edward O. Wilson Vincent Scully Prize – Adele Chatfield-Taylor Twenty-five Year Award – The Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport Deaths 25 February – Frank Williams, 73, US skyscraper architect (b. 1936)Dennis Hevesi Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73 The New York Times 2010-03-08 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/arts/design/09williams.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 4 March – Raimund Abraham, 77, Austrian architect (b. 1933)Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/arts/design/06abraham.html The New York Times 12 March 2017 14 March – Der Scutt, 75, American architect (b. 1934) 13 September – John Elliott, 73, British architect (b. 1936)http://www.rebec.rs/speakers.php?lang=en&Y=2010 Confirmed Speakers/John Elliott REBEC 21–23 June 2010 See also Timeline of architecture References Category:21st-century architecture