2020 in architecture
The year 2020 in architecture is expected to involve some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings and structures

Central Park Tower in New York City under construction in late 2019
- Australia
- Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, projected for completion.
- Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, projected for completion.
- Belgium
- Alex guesthouse (private garden building), Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed.[1]
- Canada
- Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels.[2]
- China
- Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, designed by Ma Yansong.[2]
- 1000 Trees, designed by Thomas Heatherwick in Shanghai.[2]
- "Crystal" skyway at Raffles City Chongqing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened to public June.[3]
- Germany
- Berlin Brandenburg Airport scheduled for opening 31 October.
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Thamrin Nine in Jakarta, the tallest building in Indonesia, projected for completion.
- Italy
- Bridge (as yet unnamed) by Renzo Piano, over the Polcevera River in Genoa, replacing the Ponte Morandi which collapsed in 2018, completed and expected to open to traffic in July.[4]
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- '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.[6]
- Norway
- Poland
- Varso in Warsaw, the tallest building in Warsaw and Poland and in the European Union, projected for completion.
- Taiwan
- United Arab Emirates
- The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid.[2]
- Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.[2]
- 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.
- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by Renzo Piano in Los Angeles, is set to open on December 20.[8]
Awards
- 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[9]
- Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent –
- RAIA Gold Medal –
- RIAS Award for Architecture –
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell)[10]
- Stirling Prize –
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –
- UIA Gold Medal –
- Twenty-five Year Award AIA –
- Vincent Scully Prize –
Exhibitions
- 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[11]
Deaths
- February 21 – Yona Friedman, Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923)
- March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (born 1927)
- March 26 – Michael Sorkin, 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)
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See also
References
- "Alex Guesthouse / atelier vens vanbelle". ArchDaily. 2020-04-28. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- The most anticipated buildings set to shape the world in 2020 CNN Style, Dec 31, 2019
- Lang, Fabienne (2020-06-08). "World's Highest Horizontal Skyscraper at 250 Meters Opens in China". Interesting Engineering. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
- https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/italy-genoa-new-bridge/index.html
- "'stone garden' tower expresses the archaeological language of beirut". designboom. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- Tendrá Nuevo León el primer edificio ‘Cero Energía’ de México El Mañana (Mexico), 12 Jan 2020
- "Tainan Spring / MVRDV". ArchDaily. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
- https://deadline.com/2020/02/academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-opening-date-oscars-1202855663/
- Wainwright, Oliver (4 March 2020). "Irish women win Pritzker prize, architecture's highest honour". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- Block, India (2019-10-02). "Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal". de zeen. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- https://www.guggenheim.org/press-release/rem-koolhaas-and-amo-explore-radical-change-in-the-worlds-nonurban-territories-in-the-guggenheim-exhibition-countryside-the-future
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