- 2000 in architecture
The year 2000 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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May 12 -Tate Modern inLondon , a conversion ofBankside Power Station byHerzog & de Meuron opens to the public.
*TheEmirates Towers inDubai ,United Arab Emirates are completed and open to the public.
*TheAl Faisaliyah Center inRiyadh ,Saudi Arabia is the first building to be completed in the competition between two Saudi princes. TheKingdom Center was completed several months later.Events
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June 22 - The Architect company Snøhetta wins the international Architect competition for Oslo's New National Opera House. [ [http://www.statsbygg.no/FilSystem/files/opera/publikasjoner/NorwegianOperaEnglishBrochure.pdf Statsbygg's brochure about the Oslo's Opera] , "page 8/12"]Awards
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AIA Gold Medal -Ricardo Legorreta
*Architecture Firm Award -Gensler
*Grand Prix de l'urbanisme -Alexandre Chemetoff
*Pritzker Prize -Rem Koolhaas
*Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent -Philippe Gazeau
*RAIA Gold Medal - John Morphett
*Royal Gold Medal -Frank Gehry
*Stirling Prize -Alsop & Störmer ,Peckham Library
*Vincent Scully Prize -Jane Jacobs *
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the UNESCOWorld Heritage List Births
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Deaths
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January 18 -Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (born 1897)
*February 19 -Friedensreich Hundertwasser (born 1928)
*July 3 -Enric Miralles (born 1955)
*Eladio Dieste (born 1917)References
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