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The year 2014 in architecture is expected to involve some significant events.
Buildings
Australia[edit]
- Infinity Tower, the tallest building in Brisbane, is completed.
- November 11 – Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology, Sydney, designed by Frank Gehry, is completed.
Canada[edit]
- September 18 – Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, opens.
- September 19 – Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, designed by Antoine Predock, opens.
Chile[edit]
- Gran Torre Santiago, the tallest building in South America and Latin America, projected for completion.
France[edit]
- October 28 – Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.
Germany[edit]
- Taunusturm in Frankfurt is completed.
Panama[edit]
- Ocotber 2 – Biomuseo in Panama City, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.
Philippines[edit]
- July 21 – Philippine Arena, the world’s largest indoor domed-arena, in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, is completed.
United Arab Emirates[edit]
- Dream Dubai Marina, supertall skyscraper in Dubai, projected for completion. If completed before World One will become the tallest residential building in the world upon completion.
United Kingdom[edit]
- Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, designed by Haworth Tompkins, completed and awarded Stirling Prize.
United States[edit]
- October 10 – 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential buildings in the world is topped out.
- November 3 – One World Trade Center in New York City, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Daniel Libeskind, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, opens.
- One57, one of the tallest building in New York City becomes the tallest mixed-use (residential and hotel) skyscraper in the city.
Events[edit]
- 8 June – 23 November – Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by Rem Koolhaas[2]
- 1 – 3 October – The seventh World Architecture Festival in Singapore
Exhibitions[edit]
- * December 3 – May 3, 2015 – “One Way: Peter Marino” at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.[3]
Awards[edit]
- AIA Architecture Firm Award – Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
- AIA Gold Medal – Julia Morgan
- Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical architecture – Pier Carlo Bontempi
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Steven Holl
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Shigeru Ban
- Reed Award for classical architecture commitment – Ruan Yisan[4]
- RAIA Gold Medal – Phil Harris and Adrian Welke
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Joseph Rykwert
- Stirling Prize – Haworth Tompkins for Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Toyo Ito
- Twenty-five Year Award by AIA – Harry Weese for Washington Metro
- UIA Gold Medal – Ieoh Ming Pei
- Vincent Scully Prize from National Building Museum – Charlie Rose
Deaths[edit]
- January 10 – Kathryn Findlay, (b. 1953), British born architect working in Japan
- February 25 – Heikki Siren (b. 1918), Finnish architect
- March 20 – William Toomath, (b. 1925), New Zealand architect
- March 28
- Robin Gibson, (b. 1930), Australian architect
- Avraham Yaski, (b. 1927), Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic
- April 24 – Hans Hollein, (b. 1934), Austrian architect[5]
- April 28 – Frederic Schwartz, (b. 1951), American architect, author and city planner
- July 26 – Sir Richard MacCormac, (b. 1938), British architect
- August 18 – Kurt Meyer (b. 1922), Swiss-born architect working in the United States and Nepal[6]
- September 6 – Édith Girard, (b. 1949), French architect
- September 27 – Taylor Hardwick. (b. 1925), American architect
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