# 2020 in architecture

The year 2020 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* November 16 – Work to dismantle the flanking walls of a pavilion erected by Tadao Ando at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre in England (2002) begins.

## Buildings and structures
### Australia

* Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, completed.
* Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, completed.

### Belgium

* Alex guesthouse (private garden building), Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed.

### Canada

* Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels.

### Germany

* Berlin Brandenburg Airport completed and opened on 31 October.

### Hong Kong

* M+ museum scheduled for completion.

### India

* World One in Mumbai, the tallest building in India, is completed.

### Italy

* Genoa-Saint George Bridge by Renzo Piano, over the Polcevera River in Genoa, replacing the Ponte Morandi which collapsed in 2018, completed and open to traffic on 3 August.

### Japan

* The Kadokawa Culture Museum at Tokorozawa Sakura Town in Tokorozawa, Japan partially opened on 1 August and then fully opened on 6 November.

### Lebanon

* Stone Garden (apartments), Beirut, designed by Lina Gotmeh, completed.

### Mexico

* Torres Obispado in Monterrey, the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, completed.
* 'OUM Wellness', built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the first net-zero energy building (NZEB) in Latin America.

### Norway

* Powerhouse Telemark, "energy positive" project in Porsgrunn designed by Snøhetta.

### People's Republic of China

* Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, designed by Ma Yansong.
* 1000 Trees, designed by Thomas Heatherwick in Shanghai.
* "Crystal" skyway at Raffles City Chongqing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened to public June.

### Sweden

* Norra Tornen, a pair of residential buildings in Stockholm designed by OMA, is completed

### Taiwan

* Tainan Spring (adaptive reuse), Tainan, designed by MVRDV, completed.

### United Arab Emirates

* The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid.
* Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

### United Kingdom

* 100 Liverpool Street office redevelopment in the City of London, designed by Hopkins Architects.
* Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road (apartments), East London, designed by Henley Halebrown, completed.
* Newfoundland Quay diagrid skyscraper rental apartments in London Docklands, designed by Horden Cherry Lee, projected for completion.
* Town House, combining a library and dance studios, Kingston University London, designed by Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell), opened to students 6 January.
* Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), opened 5 March.
* Falkirk Campus, Forth Valley College, Scotland, designed by Reiach & Hall, officially opened January.

## Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell (U.S.)
* Architecture Firm Award AIA – Architecture Research Office
* Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ong-ard Satrabhandhu
* Grand Prix de l'urbanisme –
* Grand Prix national de l'architecture –
* LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Postponed until October 2021
* Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –
* Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
* RAIA Gold Medal – John Wardle
* RIAS Award for Architecture – cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell)
* Stirling Prize – RIBA announced that the Stirling Prize awards had been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – WEISS/MANFREDI
* Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Eric Owen Moss Architects for Conjunctive Points – The New City

## Exhibitions

* 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

## Deaths

* February 21 – Yona Friedman, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923)
* March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect (born 1927)
* March 26 – Michael Sorkin, 71, American architect (born 1948)
* March 28 – Michael McKinnell, 84, American architect (born 1935)
* April 4 – Bashirul Haq, 77, Bangladeshi architect (born 1942)
* April 10 – Rifat Chadirji, 93, Iraqi architect (born 1926)
* April 12 – Justus Dahinden, 94, Swiss architect, teacher and writer (born 1925)
* August 4 – Jean-Marc Bonfils, 57, Lebanese architect (born 1963)
* September 2 – Christian Liaigre, 77, French architect and interior designer (born 1943)
* December 27 – Vikram Lall - Indian architect (Akshardham temple), (Birthdate not disclosed)
* December 29 – Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect (born 1963)