1995 in architecture
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The year 1995 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
[edit]- 19 April – Oklahoma City bombing: The blast destroys or damages 324 buildings within a 16-block radius.[1]
- 6 November – Rova of Antananarivo in Madagascar largely destroyed by fire.
- date unknown
- Zaha Hadid wins the competition to design the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales. Funding is rejected in December and the project abandoned.
- Steven Holl Architects begin construction work at St. Ignatius Chapel, Seattle University, USA.[citation needed]
Buildings and structures
[edit]Buildings completed
[edit]- January – New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, designed by Mario Botta.
- 1 March – Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia.
- 11 April – Évry Cathedral, designed by Mario Botta.[2]
- 20 August – BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London Hindu temple in Neasden, designed by C. B. Sompura.[3]
- August – Cambridge Judge Business School (England) designed by John Outram.
- 28 November – Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Richard Meier.
- Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Aldo Rossi.
- Benedictine monastery, Tomelilla, Sweden, designed by Dom Hans van der Laan (d.1991).
- Ojo del Sol in Berkeley, California, designed by Eugene Tsui as a home for his parents.
Awards
[edit]- AIA Gold Medal – César Pelli.
- Architecture Firm Award – Beyer Blinder Belle.
- Carlsberg Architectural Prize – Juha Leiviskä
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Renzo Piano.
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Tadao Ando.
- Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Christian de Portzamparc for the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Colin Rowe.
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Ian McHarg.
- Twenty-five Year Award – The Ford Foundation Headquarters
Deaths
[edit]- 31 March – Max Brüel, Danish architect and jazz musician (born 1927)[4]
- 20 September – Eulie Chowdhury, Indian architect (born 1923)
References
[edit]- ^ "Oklahoma City Police Department Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing After Action Report" (PDF). Terrorism Info. p. 58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2007.
- ^ (in French and English) Évry Cathedral website of the Diocese of Évry-Corbeil-Essonnes.
- ^ Hardy, Adam (November 1995). "Spirit of suburbia". Perspectives on Architecture. 2 (19): 42–47.
- ^ Classic modern spotlight on Torben Orskov. Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine