1999 in architecture explained

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]

Notes and References

1. http://www.berlin.de/orte/sehenswuerdigkeiten/reichstag/index.en.php Reichstag
2. Ron Slade . Andrew Woodward . Iain Shaw . Sainsbury's millennium store at Greenwich peninsula . . May 2000 . 138 . 3 . 112-118.
3. Web site: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Perkins+Will. 2015-09-16.
4. Web site: Jewish Museum Berlin. A Perfectly Normal Museum?. 2014-12-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141209185631/http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/01-Architecture/00-architecture.php. 2014-12-09.
5. Web site: How BIM helped refurb Lord's Media Centre . . 2 May 2017 . Construction Management . 19 October 2024.
6. Web site: Aldo van Eyck. Team 10 On line. 9 September 2012.
7. Charlotte Perriand by Elisabeth Vedrenne. Assouline, November 2005. .