2020 in architecture

• November 16 – Work to dismantle the flanking walls of a pavilion erected by Tadao Ando at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre in England (2002) begins.[1]

Australia

Crown Sydney under construction in August 2019

• Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, completed.
• Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, completed.

Belgium

• Alex guesthouse (private garden building), Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed.[2]

Canada

• Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels.[3]

Germany

• Berlin Brandenburg Airport completed and opened on 31 October.

Hong Kong

• M+ museum scheduled for completion.[3]

Indonesia

•  Thamrin Nine in Jakarta, the tallest building in Indonesia, projected for completion.

Italy

• Genoa-Saint George Bridge by Renzo Piano, over the Polcevera River in Genoa, replacing the Ponte Morandi which collapsed in 2018, completed and open to traffic on 3 August.

Japan

The Kadokawa Culture Museum at Tokorozawa Sakura Town in Tokorozawa, Japan partially opened on 1 August and then fully opened on 6 November.[4] [5]

Lebanon

• Stone Garden (apartments), Beirut, designed by Lina Gotmeh, completed.[6]

Mexico

• Torres Obispado in Monterrey, the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, completed.
• 'OUM Wellness', built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the first net-zero energy building (NZEB) in Latin America.[7]

Norway

• Powerhouse Telemark, "energy positive" project in Porsgrunn designed by Snøhetta.[3]

Peoples' Republic of China

Central Park Tower in New York City under construction in late 2019

• Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, designed by Ma Yansong.[3]
• 1000 Trees, designed by Thomas Heatherwick in Shanghai.[3]
• "Crystal" skyway at Raffles City Chongqing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened to public June.[8]

Taiwan

• Tainan Spring (adaptive reuse), Tainan, designed by MVRDV, completed.[9]

United Arab Emirates

• The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid.[3]
• Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.[3]

United Kingdom

• Newfoundland Quay diagrid skyscraper rental apartments in London Docklands, designed by Horden Cherry Lee, projected for completion.

United States

• Central Park Tower in New York City, the second tallest skyscraper in the United States and the tallest residential building in the world projected for completion.
• 111 West 57th Street in New York City, supertall residential building, the thinnest skyscraper in the world, projected for completion.

• AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell (U.S.)
• Architecture Firm Award AIA –
• Emporis Skyscraper Award –
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ong-ard Satrabhandhu
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme –
• Grand Prix national de l'architecture –
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner –
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara[10]
• Prix Versailles Airports – Beijing Daxing International Airport (Beijing, China) / Zaha Hadid Architects (United Kingdom)
• Prix Versailles Campuses – University of Melbourne, Life Sciences Building (Melbourne, Australia) / Hassell (Australia)
• Prix Versailles Passenger Stations – Salesforce Transit Center (San Francisco, United States) / Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (United States)
• Prix Versailles Sports – Anoeta Stadium (San Sebastián, Spain) / Izaskun Larzabal (Spain)
• Prix Versailles Shops & Stores – National Museum of Qatar Shop (Doha, Qatar) / Koichi Takada Architects (Australia)
• Prix Versailles Shopping Malls – The Exchange (Sydney, Australia) / Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan)
• Prix Versailles Hotels – Aman Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan) / Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore)
• Prix Versailles Restaurants – Le Ronsard (Marrakech, Morocco) / Gil Dez (France)
• RAIA Gold Medal –
• RIAS Award for Architecture –
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell)[11]
• Stirling Prize – RIBA announced that the Stirling Prize awards had been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12][13]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –
• Twenty-five Year Award AIA –
• UIA Gold Medal –
• Vincent Scully Prize –

• 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[14]

• February 21 – Yona Friedman, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923)[15]
• March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect (born 1927)[16]
• March 26 – Michael Sorkin, 71, American architect (born 1948)
• March 28 – Michael McKinnell, 84, American architect (born 1935)
• April 4 – Bashirul Haq, 77, Bangladeshi architect (born 1942)
• April 10 – Rifat Chadirji, 93, Iraqi architect (born 1926)
• April 12 – Justus Dahinden, 94, Swiss architect, teacher and writer (born 1925)
• August 4 – Jean-Marc Bonfils, 57, Lebanese architect (born 1963)
• September 2 – Christian Liaigre, 77, French architect and interior designer (born 1943)[17]
• December 27 – Vikram Lall - Indian architect (Akshardham temple), (Birthdate not disclosed)
• December 29 – Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect (born 1963)

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