The year 1995 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

* 19 April – Oklahoma City bombing: The blast destroys or damages 324 buildings within a 16-block radius. * 6 November – Rova of Antananarivo in Madagascar largely destroyed by fire. * ''date unknown'' ** Zaha Hadid wins the competition to design the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales. Funding is rejected in December and the project abandoned. **

Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...

Architects begin construction work at St. Ignatius Chapel,

Seattle University Seattle University (SeattleU) is a private Jesuit university in Seattle, Washington. Seattle University is the largest independent university in the Northwestern United States, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate prog ...

, USA.

Buildings and structures

Buildings completed

* January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by

Mario Botta Mario Botta (born 1 April 1943) is a Swiss architect. Career Botta designed his first building, a two-family house at Morbio Superiore in Ticino, at age 16. He graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia (1969). While the arrangements of ...

. * 1 March – Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia. * 11 April –

Évry Cathedral Évry Cathedral (french: Cathédrale de la Résurrection d'Évry; "Évry Cathedral of the Resurrection") is a Roman Catholic church architecture, church located in the new town of Évry, Essonne, Évry (Essonne), France. The cathedral was designed ...

, designed by

. * 20 August – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London Hindu temple in Neasden, designed by C. B. Sompura. * August – Cambridge Judge Business School (England) designed by John Outram. * 28 November – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by

Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings ...

. *

Bonnefantenmuseum The Bonnefanten Museum is a museum of fine art in Maastricht, Netherlands. History The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum of the Dutch province of Limburg. The name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the Frenc ...

in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by

Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi (3 May 1931 – 4 September 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who achieved international recognition in four distinct areas: architectural theory, drawing and design and also product design. He was one of the leading exponen ...

. * Benedictine monastery,

Tomelilla Tomelilla () is a locality and the seat of Tomelilla Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 6,444 inhabitants in 2010. Climate Tomelilla has an oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate, is the humid temperate ...

, Sweden, designed by Dom

Hans van der Laan Dom Hans van der Laan (29 December 1904 – 19 August 1991) was a Dutch Benedictine monk and architect. He was a leading figure in the Bossche School. His theories on numerical ratios in architecture, in particular regarding the plastic number, ...

(d.1991). *

Ojo del Sol Ojo del Sol, also called The Fish House by local residents, is a home designed in 1993 by architect Eugene Tssui. The building was constructed between 1994 and 1995 in a residential neighborhood of Berkeley California. The home's name "Ojo Del So ...

in Berkeley, California, designed by Eugene Tsui as a home for his parents.

Awards

* AIA Gold Medal –

César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur a ...

. * Architecture Firm Award – Beyer Blinder Belle. *

Carlsberg Architectural Prize Carlsberg Architectural Prize ( da, Carlsberg Arkitekturpris) was an architecture award founded by the Danish New Carlsberg foundation in 1991. It was awarded three times between the years 1992–1998 “To recognize excellence in lasting architec ...

– Juha Leiviskä * Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Renzo Piano. *

Pritzker Architecture Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

–

Tadao Ando is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize. Early life Ando was born a few m ...

. *

Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent The Prix d'architecture de l'Équerre d'argent (The Silver T-square Prize) is a French architecture award. This prize was launched in 1960 by "Architecture Française" magazine and its director Michel Bourdeau. It is given annually by Le Moniteu ...

– Christian de Portzamparc for the Cité de la Musique in Paris. * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Colin Rowe. * Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –

Ian McHarg Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental co ...

. *

Twenty-five Year Award The Twenty-five Year Award is an architecture prize awarded each year by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to "a building that has set a precedent for the last 25 to 35 years and continues to set standards of excellence for its architect ...

– The Ford Foundation Headquarters

Deaths

* 31 March –

Max Brüel Max Brüel (14 July 1927 - 31 March 1995) was a Danish architect and jazz musician This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. Do not enter names that lack ...

, Danish architect and jazz musician (born

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 * ...

)Classic modern spotlight on Torben Orskov.
* 20 September –

Eulie Chowdhury Urmila Eulie Chowdhury (4 October 1923 – 20 September 1995) was an List of Indian architects, Indian architect who worked during the mid-to-late 20th century. She worked in the fields of general architecture, landscape architecture and design, ...

, Indian architect (born

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

)

References

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