2005 In Architecture

The year 2005 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

*May 17 – The renovation and restoration of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology commences with the smashing of the first of the large glass walls, a privilege auctioned on eBay for over $2,500.
*May 20 – The United States Postal Service honors twelve "Masterworks of Modern Architecture" on first class postage stamps.
*October 6–10 – Demolition of the last of the Xanadu Houses.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

*January 15 – Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen.
*March 5 – The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Hascher et Jehle.
*April 6 – New facility for the Milan Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
*April 14 – Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA.
*April 17 – Expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
*April 28 – The Wynn Las Vegas, designed by Jon Jerde.
*May 10 – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman.
*May 11 – Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, Thailand, designed by Architects 49.
*May 30 – Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
*June – Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Renzo Piano.
*August 27 – The Turning Torso in Malmö, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the tallest building in Sweden and Scandinavia (2005–present).
*September – Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK designed by David Adjaye Associates.
*October 8 –Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, designed by Santiago Calatrava.
*October 15 – New de Young Museum in San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
*October 17–18 – National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
*October 30 – The reconstructed Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, is consecrated.
*''specific date not listed''
**Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, New York, United States is completed.
**2 Marsham Street in London, designed by Terry Farrell, is first occupied by the British government department, the Home Office, for whom it was built.
**Maggie's Centre at Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Page\Park Architects.

Buildings completed

*''date unknown''
**The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China.
**Chelsea Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
**Q1 Tower in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, the tallest building in Australia (2005–present).
** Mirador apartment building in Madrid, Spain, designed by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó.
** Tromsø Library and City Archives in Norway, designed by Kjell Beite.

Jaume Fuster Library
in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Josep Llinás.
** Santa Caterina Market roof in Barcelona, designed by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue.
**Antvorskov Church, Slagelse, Denmark, designed by Regnbuen Arkitekter.
**St. Henry's Chapel, Turku, Finland, designed by Matti Sanaksenaho.
**''Private residences''
***Casa Poli, Concepción, Chile, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
***Casa Tóló, Lugar das Carvalhinhas, Portugal, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
***Haus Bold, Bad Waldsee, Germany, designed by Thomas Bendel.
***Light House, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford.

Awards

*AIA Gold Medal – Santiago Calatrava.
*Architecture Firm Award – Murphy/Jahn.
*AIA Twenty-five Year Award – Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut by Louis Kahn.
* Driehaus Architecture Prize – Quinlan Terry
*Emporis Skyscraper Award – Turning Torso by Santiago Calatrava.
*European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Rem Koolhaas for Netherlands Embassy Berlin
*Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Bernard Reichen.
* LEAF Award, Grand Prix – Henning Larsen Architects for the IT University of Copenhagen
*Mies van der Rohe Prize – Rem Koolhaas for the Dutch Embassy (Berlin)
* Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Yoshio Taniguchi
*Pritzker Prize – Thom Mayne, of Morphosis.
*Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet for the Science Library at Orléans-la-Source.
*RAIA Gold Medal – James Birrell.
* RIAS Award for Architecture – Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
*RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frei Otto.
*Stirling Prize – Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
*Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Shigeru Ban.
*Vincent Scully Prize – The Prince of Wales (now Charles III).
*Twenty-five Year Award – Yale Center for British Art
*UIA Gold Medal – Tadao Ando.

Deaths

*January 6 – A. Hays Town, prominent American residential architect based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (born 1903)
*January 23 – Richard Feilden OBE, leading UK architect based in Bath (born 1950)
*January 25 – Philip Johnson, influential American architect, first Pritzker Prize honoree (born 1906)
*March 16 – Ralph Erskine, British architect, designer of the Byker Wall (born 1914)
*March 22 – Kenzo Tange, leading Japanese architect, winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize (born 1913)
*June 4 – Giancarlo De Carlo, Italian architect (born 1919
*June 30 – Robert Y. Fleming, American architect (born 1925)
*December 15 – James Ingo Freed, American architect (born 1930)

See also

* Architecture Timeline

References

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21st-century architecture