2018 in architecture

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The year 2018 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

Demolition of the Church of St. Lambertus

• January 9 – The Church of St. Lambertus, Immerath, Germany, is demolished.
• June 15 – The second major fire in four years breaks out at Glasgow School of Art.^[1]
• August 14 – The Ponte Morandi, a road viaduct in Genoa, collapses, resulting in 43 deaths and numerous injuries.^[2]

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2018

China

• Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.
• Goldin Finance 117, Tianjin, the third tallest building in China, designed by P & T Group and ECADI, projected for completion.

Denmark

• Fjordenhus, Kirk Kapital headquarters, on Vejle Fjord, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, completed.^[3]

Finland

• Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, opened December 5.

France

• Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux officially opened April 24.^[4]
• Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.

Ireland

• Pálás cinema, Galway, designed by Tom de Paor, opened February 23.^[5]

Malaysia

• Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, the third tallest building in Malaysia, projected for completion.

Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia

New Istanbul Airport in Arnavutköy, Istanbul, Turkey

V&A Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland

Norway

• Ureddplassen public toilet, designed by Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter + Landskapsfabrikken, opened.^[6]

Russia

• Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge opened May 16.
• Lakhta Center, in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe, commissioning begins June 27.

Spain

• Mac House (Casa Mac), Novelda, designed by La Errería.^[7]

Sweden

• Norra Tornen (Northern Towers) eastern residential tower, Stockholm, designed by OMA, completed.

Taiwan

• Weiwuying (National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts), Kaohsiung, designed by Mecanoo, opened October 13.^[8]

Turkey

• Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık, opened October 10.
• Istanbul Airport with the future world’s largest terminal, officially opened October 29.

Ukraine

• Chernobyl New Safe Confinement completed.

United Kingdom

• Broomlands Primary School in Kelso, Scottish Borders, designed by Stallan-Brand, opened January 9.^[9]
• Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery for the University of Cambridge at Eddington, designed by Stuart McKnight of MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), completed c. March.^[10]
• Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford Department of Physics, designed by Hawkins\Brown, officially opened September 17.^[11]
• The Hubert Perrodo Building at St Peter's College, Oxford, by Design Engine Architects, officially opened March 13.^[12]
• Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) and Max Fordham, opened to public June 11.
• V&A Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, designed by Kengo Kuma, opened September 15.
• Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross Central in London, conversion of industrial premises to retail development by Thomas Heatherwick, opened October 26.^[13]
• Gloucester Bus Station, designed by Building Design Partnership, opened October 26–28.
• The Macallan distillery, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, new building opened.
• Nevill Holt Opera within 17th century stable block, designed by Witherford Watson Mann, opened June 14.^[14]

Amazon Spheres in Seattle, USA

• Mapleton Crescent, Wandsworth (high-rise prefabricated apartments), designed by Metropolitan Workshop.^[15]
• Wittering House, Finsbury Park, home for self by Charles Bettes of GPad London, completed.
• House in the Garden, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford, completed.

United States

• Amazon Spheres in Seattle, designed by NBBJ, opened January 30.
• Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, Virginia designed by Steven Holl opened April 21.^[16][17]
• Stir restaurant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (architectural interior) designed by Frank Gehry opened October 12.^[18]
• 3 World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opened June 11.

Vietnam

• Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City the tallest building in Vietnam and the tallest completed building in Southeast Asia, is completed.

Exhibitions

• 26 May until 25 November - The 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy
• 15 July until 13 January 2019 - "Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980" at MOMA in New York City.^[19][20]

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – James Stewart Polshek
• Architecture Firm Award AIA – Snow Kreilich Architects
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Marc Breitman & Nada Breitman-Jakov
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – MGM Cotai
• Lawrence Israel Prize - Annabelle Selldorf^[21]
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Balkrishna Doshi
• RAIA Gold Medal – Alexander Tzannes
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Neave Brown
• Stirling Prize – Foster and Partners for Bloomberg London^[22]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Sir David Adjaye
• Vincent Scully Prize – Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell

Deaths

Rafael Calventi

• January 7 – Aydın Boysan, 96, Turkish architect
• January 9 – Neave Brown, 88, American-born British architect
• January 17 – Ted McCoy, 92, New Zealand architect
• February 18 – Ivor Smith, 93, English architect
• February 19 – Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian
• February 20 – Lionel March, 84, British architect and mathematician
• February 22 – Serban Cantacuzino, 90, French-born Romanian-British architect
• April 26 – David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect
• May 12 – Will Alsop, 70, British architect
• May 18 – Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and architecture critic (From Bauhaus to Our House)
• May 28 – Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese born Taiwanese architect
• August 19 – Rafael Calventi, 92, Dominican architect and diplomat
• August 26 – Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect
• September 13 – Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect
• September 18 – Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas
• October 11 – Paul Andreu, 80, French architect (Osaka Maritime Museum)
• November 24 – Gene Leedy, 90, American architect
• December 27 – Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke)

See also

• Timeline of architecture

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