1999 in architecture

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The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

April 19 – The Bundestag holds its first meeting at the Reichstag building in Berlin (following a redesign by Norman Foster) since 1933.^[1]

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

March – Pero's Bridge in Bristol, England, designed by Eilis O'Connell with Ove Arup & Partners.
March 6 – Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia.
May 3 – The Venetian Las Vegas, United States (casino resort), designed by KlingStubbins.
September 7 – Black Diamond (library) (part of Royal Danish Library) in Copenhagen, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
September 14 - Sainsbury's, Greenwich is opened in London, designed by Chetwoods.^[2]
October – Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, Illinois, designed by Perkins and Will.^[3]
October 8 – The new Embassy of the United States, Ottawa, Canada, designed by David Childs, is dedicated by President Bill Clinton.
December – Burj al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
December 31
- London Eye, designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield.
- Millennium Dome in London, designed by Richard Rogers.
- Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground Jubilee line.

Buildings completed

Burj Al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by Tom Wright
March – Main Tower in Frankfurt, Germany.
Jewish Museum, Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind.^[4]
Lille Cathedral in France (Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille), begun in 1854.
Palais de Justice de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
Town Hall extension, Murcia, Spain, by Rafael Moneo.
Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, by Rafael Moneo.
Great Court of the British Museum, redesigned by Norman Foster.
Maretas Museum, Lanzarote, designed by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue.
Millennium Tower in Vienna, Austria.
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Centre, Riversdale, West Cambewarra, New South Wales, Australia, designed by Glenn Murcutt with Reg Lark and Wendy Lewin.
Conde Nast Building in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
Lloyd's Register building, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
88 Wood Street, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
Lord's Media Centre in London by Future Systems.
Melbourne Museum by architects Denton Corker Marshall, Melbourne, Australia.
The Lighthouse (Glasgow), a conversion by Page\Park Architects of John Keppie's offices for The Glasgow Herald, opens as Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the city.
Culture House ("Hagymaház" auditorium), Makó, Hungary, designed by Imre Makovecz.
Contact Theatre in Manchester, England, rebuilt by Alan Short and Associates.
Daimler complex (Linkstraße), Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
House at La Clota, Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue.
Reconstructed House of the Blackheads in Riga, Latvia.
Vistet Fritid (vacation cabin) prototype, Sweden, designed by Thomas Sandell and Anders Landström.
University of Warsaw Library, Poland, by Marek Budzyński.
Supreme Court of Poland, Poland, by Marek Budzyński.
Hundertwasser Toilets, Kawakawa, New Zealand, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Awards

AIA Gold Medal – Frank Gehry
Architecture Firm Award – Perkins and Will
Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Philippe Panerai and Nathan Starkman
Grand prix national de l'architecture – Massimiliano Fuksas
Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Fumihiko Maki
Pritzker Architecture Prize – Norman Foster
Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France – Jean Nouvel
RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Leplastrier
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Barcelona
Stirling Prize – Future Systems for Lord's Media Centre, London^[5]
Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Richard Rogers
Twenty-five Year Award – John Hancock Center
UIA Gold Medal – Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
Vincent Scully Prize – Vincent Scully

Deaths

January 14 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch Structuralist architect (born 1918)^[6]
January 23 – Jay Pritzker, US entrepreneur, founder of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (born 1922)
August 15 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design (born 1910)
October 3 – Gordon Tait, British architect (born 1912)
October 27 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (born 1903)^[7]

References

^ Reichstag Archived 2015-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Berlin International
^ Ron Slade; Andrew Woodward; Iain Shaw (May 2000). "Sainsbury's millennium store at Greenwich peninsula". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering. 138 (3): 112–118.
^ "Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum". Perkins+Will. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "A Perfectly Normal Museum?". Archived from the original on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
^ "How BIM helped refurb Lord's Media Centre". Construction Management. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
^ Charlotte Perriand by Elisabeth Vedrenne. Assouline, November 2005. ISBN 2-84323-661-4.

[1] Reichstag Archived 2015-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Berlin International

[2] Ron Slade; Andrew Woodward; Iain Shaw (May 2000). "Sainsbury's millennium store at Greenwich peninsula". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering. 138 (3): 112–118.

[3] "Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum". Perkins+Will. Retrieved 2015-09-16.

[4] Jewish Museum Berlin. "A Perfectly Normal Museum?". Archived from the original on 2014-12-09. Retrieved 2014-12-09.

[5] "How BIM helped refurb Lord's Media Centre". Construction Management. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

[6] "Aldo van Eyck". Team 10 On line. Retrieved 9 September 2012.

[7] Charlotte Perriand by Elisabeth Vedrenne. Assouline, November 2005. ISBN 2-84323-661-4.

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