2000 in architecture

none July 2011 2000 architecture The year 2000 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events June 22 – The Architect company Snøhetta wins the international Architect competition for Oslo's New National Opera House.Statsbygg's brochure about the Oslo's Opera https://web.archive.org/web/20080227142944/http://www.statsbygg.no/FilSystem/files/opera/publikasjoner/NorwegianOperaEnglishBrochure.pdf February 27, 2008 , page 8/12 Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Greenwich Millennium Village in London designed by Ralph Erskine. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2000 Buildings opened thumb|The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England thumb|right|Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle February 19 – Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, USA, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects. March 8 – Peckham Library in London, UK, designed by Alsop and Störmer. It wins this year's Stirling Prize. May 12 – Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron. October 12 – The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England, designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold. August – Centro Brasileiro Britânico in São Paulo, designed by Marc Rubin. August 19 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, reconstructed to Konstantin Thon's 1832 design, is dedicated. October 25 – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial unveiled in Vienna, designed by Rachel Whiteread. November 13 – Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain, with façade designed by Santiago Calatrava. December 6 – Queen Elizabeth II Great Court in the British Museum, London, UK.https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/architecture/great-court Great Court British Museum 29 August 2024 date unknown Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California, USA, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, USA, designed by Frank Gehry. Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland, designed by Kimmo Lintula and Hannu Tikka. Buildings completed May 14 – Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by Foster and Partners, the first building to be completed in a competition between two Saudi princes; the Kingdom Centre is completed in 2002. Bankers Hall West in Calgary, Alberta, designed by Cohos Evamy. Montevetro (apartments), Battersea Reach, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership. Awards AIA Gold Medal – Ricardo Legorreta Architecture Firm Award – Gensler Emporis Skyscraper Award – Sofitel New York Hotel Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Alexandre Chemetoff Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Richard Rogers Pritzker Prize – Rem Koolhaas Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Philippe Gazeau RAIA Gold Medal – John Morphett RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frank Gehry Stirling Prize – Alsop & Störmer for Peckham Library, LondonGlancey Jonathan 6 November 2000 Prize fools https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/nov/06/artsfeatures.stirlingprize The Guardian 19 October 2024 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Daniel Patrick Moynihan Twenty-five Year Award – The Smith House Vincent Scully Prize – Jane Jacobs Deaths January 18 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect in the Nazi Resistance movement (born 1897)Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: 'Sie haben gedacht, ich würde verhungern' German http://diestandard.at/1920037 4 March 2013 dieStandard.at 18 January 2005 February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist and architect (born 1928) July 3 – Enric Miralles, Spanish architect (born 1955) July 29 – Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan engineer and architect (born 1917) See also Timeline of architecture References Category:20th-century architecture Category:2000 architecture