1994 in architecture explained

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

Events

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

Buildings and structures

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

• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: vh. het Maupoleum. Otten . Harvey. 4 July 2012. Andere Tijden Archi tectuur. Dutch. 6 September 2014.
2. Web site: Mountain Pavilion in Bambajima, Toyama, Japan by Peter Salter. A weekly dose of architecture. 2018-08-21. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105725/http://archidose.org/wp/2004/10/04/mountain-pavilion. 2011-10-01.
3. Book: Bradley, Simon. 282-3. Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East. The Buildings of England. New Haven. Yale University Press. 2023. New. 978-0-300-20929-7.
4. Web site: Library of Congress LCCN Permalink 73161799. https://archive.today/20120710185037/http://lccn.loc.gov/73161799. dead. 2012-07-10.