1994 in architecture

The year 1994 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

• The Maupoleum in Amsterdam is demolished.^[1]

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1994

Buildings opened

• May 6 – The Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France is opened.
• September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, designed by Renzo Piano, opens with its Terminal 1 as the longest building in the world.
• date unknown – Channel 4 Building, home of the Channel 4 television company, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opened on Horseferry Road in Westminster, London.

Buildings completed

The Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China

The Manggha in Kraków, Poland

• Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, China.
• Shinjuku Park Tower, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
• Kamiichi Mountain Pavilion, Japan, designed by Peter Salter.^[2]
• World Trade Center México, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Qingdao TV Tower, Qingdao, China.
• International Saddam Tower, Baghdad, Iraq.
• Igualada Cemetery, Catalonia, designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.
• Pirkkala Church, Finland, designed by Käpy and Simo Paavilainen.
• Garden Quadrangle, St John's College, Oxford, England, designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard.^[3]
• Hauer-King House, Canonbury, London, designed by Future Systems.
• Manggha, Kraków, Poland, by Arata Isozaki.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Norman Foster.
• Architecture Firm Award – Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners for Waterloo International railway station, London.
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Charles Correa.
• Pritzker Prize – Christian de Portzamparc.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Henri and Bruno Gaudin.
• RAIA Gold Medal – Neville Quarry.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Michael and Patricia Hopkins.
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Frank O. Gehry.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Deaths

• February 14 – Pietro Belluschi, Italian-born American architect (born 1899)
• August 11 – Gordon Cullen, English architect and urban designer associated with the "Townscape" movement (born 1914)^[4]
• August 19 – Nancy Lancaster, American-born interior decorator associated with the English country house look (born 1897)
• October 24 – John Lautner, American architect (born 1911)
• November 11 – Stephen Dykes Bower, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1903)
• December 10 – Henry Bernard, French architect, designer of the Palace of Europe (born 1912)

References

1. Otten, Harvey (4 July 2012). "vh. het Maupoleum" (in Dutch). Andere Tijden Archi tectuur. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
2. "Mountain Pavilion in Bambajima, Toyama, Japan by Peter Salter". A weekly dose of architecture. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
3. Bradley, Simon (2023). Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East. The Buildings of England (New ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 282–3. ISBN 978-0-300-20929-7.
4. "Library of Congress LCCN Permalink 73161799". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10.