2018 in architecture explained

The year 2018 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• January 9 – The Church of St. Lambertus, Immerath, Germany, is demolished.
• June 15 – The second major fire in four years breaks out at Glasgow School of Art.^[1]
• August 14 – The Ponte Morandi, a road viaduct in Genoa, collapses, resulting in 43 deaths and numerous injuries.^[2]

Buildings and structures

China

• Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.
• Goldin Finance 117, Tianjin, the third tallest building in China, designed by P & T Group and ECADI, projected for completion.

Denmark

• Fjordenhus, Kirk Kapital headquarters, on Vejle Fjord, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, completed.^[3]

Finland

• Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, opened December 5.

France

• Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux officially opened April 24.^[4]
• Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.

Ireland

• Pálás cinema, Galway, designed by Tom de Paor, opened February 23.^[5]

Malaysia

• Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, the third tallest building in Malaysia, projected for completion.

Norway

• Ureddplassen public toilet, designed by Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter + Landskapsfabrikken, opened.^[6]

Russia

• Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge opened May 16.
• Lakhta Center, in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe, commissioning begins June 27.

Spain

• Mac House (Casa Mac), Novelda, designed by La Errería.^[7]

Sweden

• Norra Tornen (Northern Towers) eastern residential tower, Stockholm, designed by OMA, completed.

Taiwan

• Weiwuying (National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts), Kaohsiung, designed by Mecanoo, opened October 13.^[8]

Turkey

• Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık, opened October 10.
• Istanbul Airport with the future world’s largest terminal, officially opened October 29.

Ukraine

• Chernobyl New Safe Confinement completed.

United Kingdom

• Broomlands Primary School in Kelso, Scottish Borders, designed by Stallan-Brand, opened January 9.^[9]
• Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery for the University of Cambridge at Eddington, designed by Stuart McKnight of MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), completed c. March.^[10]
• Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford Department of Physics, designed by Hawkins\Brown, officially opened September 17.^[11]
• The Hubert Perrodo Building at St Peter's College, Oxford, by Design Engine Architects, officially opened March 13.^[12]
• Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) and Max Fordham, opened to public June 11.
• V&A Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, designed by Kengo Kuma, opened September 15.
• Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross Central in London, conversion of industrial premises to retail development by Thomas Heatherwick, opened October 26.^[13]
• Gloucester Bus Station, designed by Building Design Partnership, opened October 26 - 28.
• The Macallan distillery, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, new building opened.
• Nevill Holt Opera within 17th century stable block, designed by Witherford Watson Mann, opened June 14.^[14]

• Mapleton Crescent, Wandsworth (high-rise prefabricated apartments), designed by Metropolitan Workshop.^[15]
• Wittering House, Finsbury Park, home for self by Charles Bettes of GPad London, completed.
• House in the Garden, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford, completed.

United States

• Amazon Spheres in Seattle, designed by NBBJ, opened January 30.
• Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, Virginia designed by Steven Holl opened April 21.^{[16] [17]}
• Stir restaurant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (architectural interior) designed by Frank Gehry opened October 12.^[18]
• 3 World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opened June 11.

Vietnam

• Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City the tallest building in Vietnam and the tallest completed building in Southeast Asia, is completed.

Exhibitions

• 26 May until 25 November - The 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy
• 15 July until 13 January 2019 - "Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980" at MOMA in New York City.^{[19] [20]}

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – James Stewart Polshek
• Architecture Firm Award AIA – Snow Kreilich Architects
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Marc Breitman & Nada Breitman-Jakov
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – MGM Cotai
• Lawrence Israel Prize - Annabelle Selldorf^[21]
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Balkrishna Doshi
• RAIA Gold Medal – Alexander Tzannes
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Neave Brown
• Stirling Prize – Foster and Partners for Bloomberg London
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Sir David Adjaye

Deaths

• January 7 – Aydın Boysan, 96, Turkish architect
• January 9 – Neave Brown, 88, American-born British architect
• January 17 – Ted McCoy, 92, New Zealand architect
• February 18 – Ivor Smith, 93, English architect
• February 19 – Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian
• February 20 – Lionel March, 84, British architect and mathematician
• February 22 – Serban Cantacuzino, 90, French-born Romanian-British architect
• April 26 – David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect
• May 12 – Will Alsop, 70, British architect
• May 18 – Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and architecture critic (From Bauhaus to Our House)
• May 28 – Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese born Taiwanese architect
• August 19 – Rafael Calventi, 92, Dominican architect and diplomat
• August 26 – Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect
• September 13 – Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect
• September 18 – Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas
• October 11 – Paul Andreu, 80, French architect (Osaka Maritime Museum)
• November 24 – Gene Leedy, 90, American architect
• December 27 – Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke)

See also

• Timeline of architecture

Notes and References

1. News: Carrell. Severin. Brooks. Libby. Rawlinson. Kevin. 'Heartbreaking': fire guts Glasgow School of Art for the second time. 2018-06-16. The Guardian. London. 2018-06-16.
2. News: Genova, crollo ponte Morandi: le vittime . 15 August 2018 . La Repubblica . 15 August 2018.
3. News: Kate. Connolly. Disorientating and playful, Eliasson's first building 'grows' from Danish fjord. 2018-06-08. The Guardian. London. 2018-06-09.
4. News: 'We must remember': PM opens $100m Monash centre in France. David. Crowe. 2018-04-24. The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. 2018-04-25.
5. News: First look: Galway's new art-house cinema, a 'beautiful tower of song'. Lorna. Siggins. 2018-02-21. 2018-08-13. The Irish Times. Dublin.
6. News: Norway has just opened the world's most beautiful public loo. Hugh. Morris. The Daily Telegraph. London. 2018-03-28. 2018-04-16.
7. Web site: Mac House / La Errería. ArchDaily. 2020-04-15. 2020-05-15.
8. News: Oliver Wainwright. Oliver. Wainwright. Grand vision: The world's biggest arts venue opens in Taiwan. The Guardian. London. 2018-10-20. 19. 53545. 2018-10-21.
9. News: Broomlands Primary: Does a 'stunning school' help learning?. Giancarlo. Rinaldi. BBC News. 2019-05-19. 2019-06-02.
10. Web site: Storey's Field Centre. North West Cambridge Development. 2018-03-29. 2018-06-22. 2018-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20180623005204/http://www.nwcambridge.co.uk/news/storeys-field-centre. dead.
11. News: Oxford building named as one of the country's best. Nathan. Briant. Oxford Mail. 2019-06-27. 2019-06-27.
12. Web site: Hubert Perrodo Building shortlisted for RIBA Awards 2018. Design Engine. 2018-03-21. 2018-05-18.
13. News: Wills. Kate. Coal Drops Yard is London's new eating, shopping and playing paradise. 2018-10-26. Evening Standard. London. 2018-10-18.
14. Web site: Nevill Holt Opera Opens A New Theatre. Nevill Holt Opera. 2018-06-19. 2019-01-18.
15. News: Rowan Moore. Rowan. Moore. Mapleton Crescent: the London high-rise factory-built in Bedfordshire. The Observer. London. 2018-05-20. 2019-09-24.
16. Web site: VCU's landmark ICA opens with declaration to power of art and diversity. 13 April 2018.
17. Web site: Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU / Steven Holl Architects. 26 April 2018.
18. Stir (Gehry Partners) . October 15, 2018 . Architect Magazine.
19. Web site: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 | MoMA.
20. Web site: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Brutalist Yugoslavian Architecture.
21. Web site: Annabelle Selldorf to receive Lawrence Israel Prize from FIT. 22 October 2018.