1995 in architecture

none December 2019 1995 architecture The year 1995 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events 19 April – Oklahoma City bombing: The blast destroys or damages 324 buildings within a 16-block radius.Oklahoma City Police Department Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing After Action Report Terrorism Info http://www.terrorisminfo.mipt.org/pdf/okcfr_App_C.pdf PDF 58 https://web.archive.org/web/20070703233435/http://www.terrorisminfo.mipt.org/pdf/okcfr_App_C.pdf 3 July 2007 6 November – Rova of Antananarivo in Madagascar largely destroyed by fire. date unknown Zaha Hadid wins the competition to design the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales. Funding is rejected in December and the project abandoned. Steven Holl Architects begin construction work at St. Ignatius Chapel, Seattle University, USA.June 2015 thumb|San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1995 Buildings completed January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Mario Botta. 1 March – Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia. 11 April – Évry Cathedral, designed by Mario Botta.fr en Évry Cathedral website of the Diocese of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes. 20 August – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London Hindu temple in Neasden, designed by C. B. Sompura.Spirit of suburbia Adam Hardy Perspectives on Architecture November 1995 19 2 42–47 August – Cambridge Judge Business School (England) designed by John Outram. 28 November – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Richard Meier. Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Aldo Rossi. Benedictine monastery, Tomelilla, Sweden, designed by Dom Hans van der Laan (d.1991). Ojo del Sol in Berkeley, California, designed by Eugene Tsui as a home for his parents. Awards AIA Gold Medal – César Pelli. Architecture Firm Award – Beyer Blinder Belle. Carlsberg Architectural Prize – Juha Leiviskä Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Renzo Piano. Pritzker Architecture Prize – Tadao Ando. Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Christian de Portzamparc for the Cité de la Musique in Paris. RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Colin Rowe. Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Ian McHarg. Twenty-five Year Award – The Ford Foundation Headquarters Deaths 31 March – Max Brüel, Danish architect and jazz musician (born 1927)Classic modern spotlight on Torben Orskov. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725224758/http://www.classic-modern.co.uk/spotlight/orskov.htm 25 July 2011 20 September – Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (born 1923) References Category:20th-century architecture