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The year 2014 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• June 8–November 23 – Venice Biennale of Architecture curated by Rem Koolhaas
• October 1–3 – The seventh World Architecture Festival in Singapore
• November 4 – Construction of Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire is abandoned

Buildings and structures

Antarctica

• February 12 – Jang Bogo Station opens.

Australia

• date unknown – Infinity Tower, the tallest building in Brisbane, is completed (until 2016).
• November 11 – Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, University of Technology, Sydney, designed by Frank Gehry, is completed.

Canada

• September 18 – Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, opens.
• September 19 – Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, designed by Antoine Predock, opens.
• December 13 – Halifax Central Library in Halifax, Nova Scotia, designed by Fowler Bauld and schmidt hammer lassen architects, opens.

France

• October 28 – Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.

Germany

• February – Taunusturm in Frankfurt opens.

Iran

• October – Tabiat Bridge in Tehran, designed by Leila Araghian, opens.

Italy

• October 17 – Bosco Verticale in Milan, by Stefano Boeri opens.

Latvia

• August 29 – New National Library of Latvia building in Riga, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, opens.

Netherlands

• March 13 - The new Rotterdam Central Station building, by Benthem Crouwel Architekten opens.

Panama

• October 2 – Biomuseo in Panama City, designed by Frank Gehry, opens.

Philippines

• July 21 – Philippine Arena, the world's largest indoor domed-arena, in Ciudad de Victoria, Bocaue and Santa Maria, Bulacan, is completed.

Poland

• Szczecin Philharmonic Hall, by Barozzi Veiga, is completed.

Romania

• Summer – The Maryam Mosque, a mosque for Romanian converts to Islam in Rediu, is completed.

Taiwan

• November 23 – National Taichung Theater, by Toyo Ito with Cecil Balmond, is opened.

United Arab Emirates

• Marina 101, 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

• July – Buildings in London designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners completed:
  • 122 Leadenhall Street in the City.
  • World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre, British Museum.
• August – 20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London, designed by Rafael Viñoly, completed.
• September 16 – The News Building (London), designed by Renzo Piano, officially opened and named.
• September 29 – Weston Library, a major reconstruction of the University of Oxford's New Bodleian Library by WilkinsonEyre, opens to readers.
• December 9 – University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building, designed by heneghan peng architects (hparc), opened.
• London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey.
• Burntwood School, Wandsworth, London, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, completed; awarded 2015 Stirling Prize.
• Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, designed by Haworth Tompkins, completed and awarded Stirling Prize.
• Maggie's palliative care centres opened in
  • Lanarkshire, designed by Reiach and Hall (September).
  • Oxford, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (October).

United States

• October 1 — Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University is dedicated, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects.
• October 9 – Windhover Contemplative Center, designed by Aidlin Darling Design, opens at Stanford University.
• 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 buildings in New York City became the tallest mixed-use (residential and hotel) skyscraper in the city.

Exhibitions

• October 25 until February 22, 2015 - Diller & Scofidio + Renfro Musings on a Glass Box at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, France.
• December 3 (ends May 2015) – "One Way: Peter Marino" at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.

Awards

• AIA Architecture Firm Award – Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
• AIA Gold Medal – Julia Morgan
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Wangjing SOHO designed by Zaha Hadid
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical architecture – Pier Carlo Bontempi
• Lawrence Israel Prize – LOT-EK
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Steven Holl
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Shigeru Ban
• Reed Award for classical architecture commitment – Ruan Yisan
• 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

• January 10 – Kathryn Findlay, British-born architect working in Japan (b. 1953)
• February 25 – Heikki Siren, Finnish architect (b. 1918)
• March 20 – William Toomath, (b. 1925), New Zealand architect
• March 28
  • Robin Gibson, Australian architect (b. 1930)
  • Avraham Yaski, Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927)
• April 24 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect (b. 1934)
• April 28 – Frederic Schwartz, American architect, author and city planner (b. 1951)
• July 11 – Randall Stout, 56, American architect (b. 1958)
• July 26 – Sir Richard MacCormac, British architect (b. 1938)
• August 18 – Kurt Meyer, Swiss-born architect working in the United States and Nepal (b. 1922)
• August 22 – Sir Philip Dowson, British architect (b. 1924)
• September 6 – Édith Girard, French architect (b. 1949)
• September 27
  • Taylor Hardwick, American architect (b. 1925)
  • Antti Lovag, Hungarian architect (Palais Bulles) (b. 1920)
• December 24 – Ricardo Porro, Cuban architect who worked in France (b. 1925)

See also

• Timeline of architecture

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