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1997 in architecture
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1997 architecture
The year 1997 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
September 26 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi (constructed 1228–1253) to collapse.
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1997
Buildings
thumb|Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, Scotland
thumb|right|Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, England, designed by Foster and Partners, is officially opened (Stirling Prize 1998).
British Library in London, designed by Colin St John Wilson, opens.
Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, designed by Foster and Partners, is completed.
Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt, designed by Norman Foster, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the European Union (1997–2012).
The Sky Tower (Auckland) in New Zealand, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), designed by Craig Craig Moller Ltd, opens on March 3.http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000888 Sky Tower Structurae 2013-03-03
The T & C Tower in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by C. Y. Lee & Partners and HOK, is completed.
Getty Center in Los Angeles, designed by Richard Meier.
Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, is officially opened.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, opens to the public.
Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, designed by César Pelli, are completed, constituting the world's tallest building until 2003.
Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland, designed by Renzo Piano, is opened.
Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, designed by Peter Zumthor, is opened.
Katuaq cultural centre, Nuuk, Greenland, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, opens on February 15.
Nubian Museum in Aswan, inaugurated (Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2001)
Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia is completed.
WoZoCo housing in Amsterdam, designed by Jacob and Nathalie de Vries and Winy Maas of MVRDV, is completed.
Rudin House, Leymen, France, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is completed.Rudin House https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/rudin-house/ wikiarquitectura 2017-12-20
Rongomaraeroa, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, designed by Cliff Whiting, is opened.
Station F at Abbey Mills Pumping Station in London, designed by Allies and Morrison, is completed.http://www.alliesandmorrison.com/project/abbey-mills-pumping-station/ Abbey Mills Pumping Station - Allies and Morrison alliesandmorrison.com 2015-10-09 2015-09-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20150918200342/http://www.alliesandmorrison.com/project/abbey-mills-pumping-station/ dead
Refurbishment following 1992 Windsor Castle fire in England, designed by Giles Downes, is completed.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/31069.stm Windsor Castle: five years from disaster to triumph BBC News 1997-11-17
Awards
AIA Gold Medal – Richard Meier
Architecture Firm Award – R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects
Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Richard Meier
Pritzker Prize – Sverre Fehn
Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France – Imre Makovecz
Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart
RAIA Gold Medal – Roy Simpson
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Tadao Ando
Stirling Prize – James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates for Stuttgart Music School, Germanyhttps://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/know-your-architects/a7007-stirling-prize-james-stirling-michael-wilford-and-associates/ Stirling Prize: James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates Ramanathan Nivedhakavyasree Rethinking The Future 19 October 2024
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Jaime Lerner
Twenty-five Year Award – Phillips Exeter Academy Library
Deaths
thumb|upright|Aldo Rossi
May 22 – Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (born 1906)
August 8 – Paul Rudolph (born 1918)Paul Rudolph Is Dead at 78; Modernist Architect of the 60's Herbert Muschamp Herbert Muschamp https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/09/arts/paul-rudolph-is-dead-at-78-modernist-architect-of-the-60-s.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm The New York Times August 9, 1997 June 21, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20120408174647/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/09/arts/paul-rudolph-is-dead-at-78-modernist-architect-of-the-60-s.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm 2012-04-08 dead
September 4 – Aldo Rossi (born 1931)
References
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