2019 in architecture
Overview of the events of 2019 in architecture
The year 2019 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Notre-Dame de Paris fire
Buildings and structures
Algeria
Australia
Bangladesh
Beyond Survival Safe Space for Rohingya Women and Girls, Rohingya Refugee Camp, Alikhali, Teknaf, designed by Rizvi Hassan and team.[ 2]
China
Finland
France
Germany
Japan
Mexico
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Unión hebraica de Paraguay Synagogue (reconstruction), Asunción , designed by Equipo de Arquitectura.[ 9]
Qatar
Lakhta Center , in St. Petersburg , Russia
Jewel Changi Airport terminal complex in Singapore
Russia
Senegal
Fass school and teachers' residence, designed by Toshiko Mori , opened 2 February.[ 11]
Singapore
Spain
Can Sau Emergency Scenery, Olot , Catalonia, designed by unparelld'arquitectes, built.[ 12]
United Kingdom
Cambridge Central Mosque , designed by Marks Barfield (lead architect: Julia Barfield), opened for worship 24 April.
Key Worker Housing, Eddington, North West Cambridge development , designed by Stanton Williams , completed.[ 13]
Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, residential/retail development, Elephant and Castle , London, by Panter Hudspith Architects, completed.[ 14]
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium , London, designed by Populous (lead architect: Christopher Lee), opened 3 April.
Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories , near Bowness-on-Windermere in the English Lake District , designed by Carmody Groarke, opened March.[ 15]
MK Gallery , Milton Keynes , by 6a architects .[ 16] [ 17]
Library & Study Centre, St John's College, Oxford , designed by Wright & Wright Architects , opened to readers 2 September.[ 18]
Cantilevered steel footbridge at Tintagel Castle , designed by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates, opening rescheduled to 11 August.[ 19]
Nithurst Farm, West Sussex, residence designed by Adam Richards for himself.[ 20]
United States
40 Tenth Avenue aka "Solar Carve" adjacent to the High Line in New York City , designed by Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang Architects is completed.[ 21]
540 West 25th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, New York City by Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture , the new global headquarters of Pace Gallery , slated for completion and scheduled to open for business in September.[ 22]
The Shed by lead architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro and collaborating architect Rockwell Group at the Hudson Yards building complex in New York City completed and opened to the public on April 5.[ 23]
The Vessel , by Thomas Heatherwick , at the Hudson Yards building complex in New York City, opened to the public on March 15.[ 24]
TWA Hotel by Beyer Blinder Belle (original Flight Center by Eero Saarinen - renovation of) and Lubrano Ciavarra Architects, at JFK Airport in Queens, New York , opens on May 15.[ 25] [ 26]
Adohi Hall at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas by Leers Weinzapfel Associates opens.[ 27]
Vietnam
Bó Mon Preschool, Tú Nang, designed by KIENTRUC O, opened June.[ 28]
Exhibitions
Awards
Deaths
January 22 – Charles Vandenhove , Belgian architect (born 1927 )
January 25 – Florence Knoll , American architect and furniture designer (Knoll Furniture ) (born 1917 )
February 11 – Allan Wild , New Zealand architect and professor (born 1927 )
February 13 – Jörg Streli , Austrian architect (b. 1940 )
February 18 – Alessandro Mendini , Italian architect and designer (Groninger Museum ) (born 1931 )
February 20 – Francisco Mañosa , Filipino architect (Coconut Palace , EDSA Shrine ) (born 1931 )
March 1 – Kevin Roche , Irish-born American architect (born 1922 )[ 33]
March 16 – Sir William Whitfield , English architect (born 1920 )
March 27 – Friedrich Achleitner , Austrian architecture critic and poet (born 1930 )[ 34]
March 29 – Tao Ho , Hong Kong architect (Hong Kong Arts Centre ) (born 1936 )
May 7 – Alexander Cvijanović , Yugoslav/American architect (born 1923 )
May 16 – I. M. Pei , Chinese born American architect (Bank of China Tower , East Building of The National Gallery of Art , Louvre Pyramid , Museum of Islamic Art, Doha - Pritzker Prize winner 1983) (born 1917 )
June 3 – Stanley Tigerman , American architect, theorist, and designer (born 1930 )
June 15 – Wilhelm Holzbauer , Austrian architect (born 1930 )
July 9 – Phil Freelon , American architect (born 1953 )
July 19 – César Pelli , Argentine architect (Petronas Towers , Carnegie Hall Tower ) (death announced on date) (born 1926 )
August 1 – Richard Vyškovský , Czech architect and creator of paper models (born 1929 )
September 4 – Timothy Seow , Singaporean architect (born 1937/38)
October 3 – Roger Taillibert , French architect (Parc des Princes - Olympic Stadium, Montreal ) (born 1926 ).[ 35]
October 13 – Charles Jencks , 80, American architect, cultural theorist (Post-modernism ) (born 1939 )
November 6 – Juliaan Lampens , 96, Belgian architect (born 1926 )
November 11 – Edward Cullinan , 88, British architect (Charles Cryer Theatre , Weald and Downland Gridshell ) (born 1931 )
November 17 – Gustav Peichl , 91, Austrian architect (ORF regional studios , Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ) (born 1928 )
See also
References
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^ "El estadio del Mundial 2022 por Zaha Hadid es inaugurado en Qatar" . Architectural Digest . 2019-05-17.
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^ Wilson, Rob (2019-07-15). "Stanton Williams completes key-worker housing in North West Cambridge" . Architects' Journal . Retrieved 2021-09-16 .
^ "Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park" . Panter Hudspith. Retrieved 2022-07-26 .
^ Wainwright, Oliver (2019-03-18). "Otters love it! Inside Windermere's magical new £20m museum" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2019-05-15 .
^ Wainwright, Oliver (2019-03-05). "MK Gallery review – utterly, thrillingly Milton Keynesian" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2021-07-19 .
^ Moore, Rowan (2019-12-17). "Top 10 architecture of 2019" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2021-07-19 .
^ Burns, Sam (2019-10-23). "Long-delayed St John's Library and Study Centre opened" . The Oxford Student . Retrieved 2021-09-11 .
^ Wainwright, Oliver (2019-08-08). "Gossamer gateway to Avalon: Tintagel Castle bridge unites magic and history" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2019-08-08 .
^ Moore, Rowan (2019-10-27). "If Tarkovsky had a farm" . The Observer : The New Review . London. p. 36. Retrieved 2019-11-01 .
^ "Studio Gang completes chiselled Solar Carve Tower on New York's High Line" . 9 August 2019.
^ "Work Nears Completion on 540 West 25th Street in West Chelsea" . 10 February 2019.
^ "Hudson Yards multidisciplinary arts center sets opening date" . 9 January 2019.
^ "The Vessel, the Shed, and What else to See at Hudson Yards" .
^ "First look inside the TWA Hotel at New York's JFK" . CNN .
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^ Franklin, Sydney (November 25, 2019). "America's largest mass timber building opens at the University of Arkansas" . archpaper.com .
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^ "HOUSING DENSITY - Announcements - e-flux" .
^ "FIT Honors Alexandra Champalimaud with 2019 Lawrence Israel Prize" .
^ "The 2019 Pritzker Prize is Awarded to Arata Isozaki" . 5 March 2019.
^ "Norwich council estate named UK's best new building" . RIBA. 2019-10-08. Retrieved 2019-10-09 .
^ "Kevin Roche, Architect Who Melded Bold With Elegant, Dies at 96" . The New York Times . March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
^ Koneffke, Jan (27 March 2019). "Eigensinnig, bodenständig, skeptisch – der Schriftsteller und Architekturkritiker Friedrich Achleitner ist gestorben" . Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
^ Designer of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium dead at 93.