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2010 in architecture

The year 2010 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

  • May 12 - Stephen T. Ayers becomes the 11th Architect of the Capitol.
  • June - Broadcasting Tower, Leeds, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building in the World award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
  • November - The third World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.

    • Buildings

  • January 4 – Burj Khalifa (formerly known as Burj Dubai) opens in the United Arab Emirates as the tallest man-made structure in the world (2010–present), at 828m (2,717 ft).
  • February 6 – New building of Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, Florida, designed by Stanley Saitowitz, opens to the public.
  • May - MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, designed by Zaha Hadid, opens to the public. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
  • June – Strata SE1 completed in the London Borough of Southwark.
  • September – Evelyn Grace Academy, a London school designed by Zaha Hadid, opens. It wins the 2011 Stirling Prize.
  • October – Maggie's, a drop-in cancer care centre in Cheltenham, England, designed by Sir Richard MacCormac's MJP Architects, opens.
  • November 10 – Sagrada Família in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí (d. 1926), is dedicated as a basilica and expiatory church following completion of the vault.
  • November 12 – Canton Tower opens for the 2010 Asian Games.
  • December – Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University, designed by Stanton Williams, completed. It wins the 2012 Stirling Prize.
  • Guangzhou International Finance Center in China, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects; it later wins the 2012 Lubetkin Prize.
  • International Commerce Centre opens as the tallest building in Hong Kong.
  • More than 70 exposition pavilions are completed for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.

    • Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Peter Q. Bohlin (United States).
  • Architecture Firm Award – Pugh + Scarpa
  • Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Laurent Théry
  • Lawrence Israel Prize - Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
  • LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Boogertman + Partners + Populous
  • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Toyo Ito
  • Pritzker Architecture Prize – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA)
  • RAIA Gold Medal – Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – I. M. Pei
  • Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture – Rafael Manzano Martos
  • Stirling Prize – Zaha Hadid
  • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Edward O. Wilson
  • Vincent Scully Prize – Adele Chatfield-Taylor
  • Twenty-five Year Award – The Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport

    • Deaths

  • February 25 - Frank Williams, 73, US skyscraper architect
  • March 4 - Raimund Abraham, 77, Austrian architect
  • March 14 - Der Scutt, 75, American architect
  • September 13 - John Elliott, 73, British architect

    • References

    2010 in architecture Wikipedia
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