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1994 architecture
The year 1994 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
The Maupoleum in Amsterdam is demolished.http://anderetijdenarchitectuur.com/2012/07/04/jodenbreestraat/ vh. het Maupoleum Otten Harvey 4 July 2012 Andere Tijden Archi tectuur Dutch 6 September 2014
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1994
Buildings opened
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France is opened.
September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, designed by Renzo Piano, opens with its Terminal 1 as the longest building in the world.
date unknown – Channel 4 Building, home of the Channel 4 television company, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opened on Horseferry Road in Westminster, London.
Buildings completed
thumb|The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China
thumb|The Manggha in Kraków, Poland
Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, China.
Shinjuku Park Tower, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
Kamiichi Mountain Pavilion, Japan, designed by Peter Salter.Mountain Pavilion in Bambajima, Toyama, Japan by Peter Salter A weekly dose of architecture http://archidose.org/wp/2004/10/04/mountain-pavilion/ 2018-08-21 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105725/http://archidose.org/wp/2004/10/04/mountain-pavilion 2011-10-01
World Trade Center México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Qingdao TV Tower, Qingdao, China.
International Saddam Tower, Baghdad, Iraq.
Igualada Cemetery, Catalonia, designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.
Pirkkala Church, Finland, designed by Käpy and Simo Paavilainen.
Garden Quadrangle, St John's College, Oxford, England, designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard.282-3 Simon Bradley Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East The Buildings of England New Haven Yale University Press 2023 New 978-0-300-20929-7
Hauer-King House, Canonbury, London, designed by Future Systems.
Manggha, Kraków, Poland, by Arata Isozaki.
Awards
AIA Gold Medal – Norman Foster.
Architecture Firm Award – Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners for Waterloo International railway station, London.
Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Charles Correa.
Pritzker Prize – Christian de Portzamparc.
Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Henri and Bruno Gaudin.
RAIA Gold Medal – Neville Quarry.
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Michael and Patricia Hopkins.
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Frank O. Gehry.
Twenty-five Year Award – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deaths
February 14 – Pietro Belluschi, Italian-born American architect (born 1899)
August 11 – Gordon Cullen, English architect and urban designer associated with the "Townscape" movement (born 1914)http://lccn.loc.gov/73161799 https://archive.today/20120710185037/http://lccn.loc.gov/73161799 dead 2012-07-10 Library of Congress LCCN Permalink 73161799
August 19 – Nancy Lancaster, American-born interior decorator associated with the English country house look (born 1897)
October 24 – John Lautner, American architect (born 1911)
November 11 – Stephen Dykes Bower, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1903)
December 10 – Henry Bernard, French architect, designer of the Palace of Europe (born 1912)
References
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