2005 in architecture

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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 - Demolition of the last of the Xanadu Houses begins, ending on October 10.

Buildings opened

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2005

Q1, in Gold Coast, Australia, when completed was the world's tallest residential building and the tallest building in Australia

• 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.
• 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.
• September - Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK designed by David Adjaye Associates.
• 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.
  • Mirador apartment building in Madrid, Spain, designed by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó.

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.
• Royal Gold Medal - Frei Otto.
• RIAS Award for Architecture - Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
• Stirling Prize - Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Shigeru Ban.
• Vincent Scully Prize - Charles, Prince of Wales.
• 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