- 2006 in architecture
The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
*Beetham Tower in
Birmingham ,England , is completed.
*Beetham Tower inManchester , England, is completed.
*Brisbane Square by architectsDenton Corker Marshall is completed inBrisbane Events
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January 9 - Fire destroysChicago 's 1891Pilgrim Baptist Church , designed byLouis Sullivan .
*January 31 - Ground breaks onWaterview Tower , and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel inChicago .
*April 10 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated greenway inNew York City .
*April 27 - Construction begins on theFreedom Tower , a replacement for theWorld Trade Center .
*May 26 -Berlin Hauptbahnhof opens in Berlin. It is the largest train station in Europe.
*July 8 - The government of Abu Dhabi andSolomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of theGuggenheim Abu Dhabi .Awards
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AIA Gold Medal -Antoine Predock .
*Architecture Firm Award - Moore Ruble Yudell.
* AIA Twenty-Five Year Award -Thorncrown Chapel byE. Fay Jones .
*Emporis Skyscraper Award - Hearst Tower.
*Pritzker Prize -Paulo Mendes da Rocha (born 1928) from São Paulo, Brasil.
*Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent -Orléans-la-Source Science Library byFlorence Lipsky andPascal Rollet .
*RIAS Award in Architecture -PagePark forMaggie's Centre, Inverness .
* RAIA Gold Medal -Kerry Hill .
*Royal Gold Medal -Toyo Ito .
*Stirling Prize -Richard Rogers .
*Vincent Scully Prize -Phyllis Lambert .Births
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Deaths
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April 25 -Jane Jacobs (born 1916)
*July 5 -Hugh Stubbins Jr. "See also:"Architecture timeline
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