2003 in architecture

The year 2003 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

The Selfridges Building in the Bull Ring in Birmingham, which won Future Systems seven architecture awards

Treasure Hill illegal settlement transformed into an example of urban acupuncture in Taipei.2003

• February 8 - New Salt Lake City Public Library (Utah), designed by Moshe Safdie and VCBO Architecture, is opened.
• February 14 - L'Oceanogràfic marine park in Valencia, Spain, designed by Félix Candela, Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro, is opened.
• July 8 - Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Novo Museu) reopens in Curitiba, Brazil, originally designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
• September 4 - Selfridges store in Birmingham, England, designed by Czech-born British architect Jan Kaplický of Future Systems, is opened (subsequently popularizing the color Yves Klein Blue).
• September - Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland a drop-in cancer care centre; Frank Gehry's first work in the United Kingdom.
• October 23 - Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, opens in Los Angeles, California.
• December 30 - Estádio Municipal de Braga, designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura, opens in Portugal.
• Laban Dance Centre, Deptford, London, and Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland, both designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
• Peabody Essex Museum new wing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opens in Salem, Massachusetts.
• Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego, designed by Moshe Safdie, is built.
• Pantages Tower, Toronto, Canada, designed by Moshe Safdie and Core Architects, is completed.
• Corrour Lodge, Inverness-shire, Scotland, designed by Moshe Safdie, is built.
• Taipei Treasure Hill designed by Marco Casagrande is completed.
• Park Pobedy in the Moscow Metro system is completed.
• Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), designed by Edward Cullinan Architects, is completed.

Events

• July 1 - Taipei 101 is topped out to become the tallest building in the world.
• December 20 - Triumph-Palace apartment building in Moskow becomes the highest building in Europe.
• Daniel Libeskind's design, entitled Memory Foundations, is accepted for the World Trade Center site in New York.
• Demolition of the Department of the Environment Building (completed 1971) at Marsham Street, Westminster, London. A new five storey glass-faced Home Office building is being erected in its place.

Awards

• Architecture Firm Award - The Miller Hull Partnership
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Rogelio Salmona
• Emporis Skyscraper Award - 30 St Mary Axe
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Zaha Hadid for Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme - Michel Corajoud
• Mies van der Rohe Prize - Zaha Hadid
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Rem Koolhaas
• Pritzker Prize - Jørn Utzon
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Yves Lion and Claire Piguet, French Embassy in Beirut
• RAIA Gold Medal - Peter Corrigan
• RIAS Award for Architecture - Sutherland Hussey Architects for An Turas Ferry Shelter, Tiree
• Royal Gold Medal - Rafael Moneo
• Stirling Prize - Herzog & de Meuron, Laban dance centre
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
• Twenty-five Year Award - Design Research Headquarters Building

Deaths

• March 3 - Peter Smithson, English architect (born 1923)
• August 10 - Cedric Price, English architect (born 1934)