1996 in architecture
Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 The year 1996 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- June 30 – The historic Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, designed by architect Wayne McAllister, is demolished.
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- The Stirling Prize is instituted in memory of James Stirling. The first winner is Stephen Hodder for the Centenary Building, University of Salford, Greater Manchester (opened in the same year).<ref>RIBA: Awards Template:Webarchive. Accessed 19 June 2014</ref>
- Eden Project, Cornwall near St Austell is designed by Nicholas Grimshaw (completed 2001).
- The Pringle Richards Sharratt partnership is established in London.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- March 15 – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund.<ref>Arken: History Template:Webarchive. Accessed 19 June 2014</ref>
- May 26 – Hong Kong China Temple, Hong Kong (inaugurated).
- October 3 – Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta.
- November – Museum für Gegenwart (contemporary art museum) in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, converted by Josef Paul Kleihues.
Buildings completed
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- Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
- Eco Building at Horniman Museum, London, designed by Architype.
- Fruit Museum, Yamanashi, Japan, designed by Itsuko Hasegawa.<ref>Japan Architect, 19 (Autumn 1995) pp. 48-57.</ref>
- Aukrust Centre, Alvdal, Norway, designed by Sverre Fehn.
- Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Denton Corker Marshall.
- Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, designed by K. Y. Cheung Design Associates, the tallest building in Asia until it is surpassed the following year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Therme Vals in Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor.
- The Dancing House (Nationale-Nederlanden building) in Prague, designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry.
- Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, a drop-in cancer care centre; building conversion by Richard Murphy.
- Orphanage (first stage), Chhebetor, Nepal, designed by Hans Olav Hesseberg and Sixten Rahiff of Bergen School of Architecture.
- 81 Mill Street, Osney, Oxford, England, a house designed for himself by Adrian James.
Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Philip Johnson
- Architecture Firm Award – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Dominique Perrault for Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Grand prix national de l'architecture – Bernard Tschumi
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Tadao Ando
- Pritzker Prize – Rafael Moneo
- Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Pierre-Louis Faloci
- RAIA Gold Medal – Denton Corker Marshall
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Harry Seidler
- Stirling Prize – Stephen Hodder for Centenary Building, University of Salford<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Jane Jacobs
- Twenty-five Year Award – United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
- UIA Gold Medal – Rafael Moneo
Deaths
- February 14 – Alejandro de la Sota, Spanish architect (born 1913)
- May 19 – Roy Mason, American lecturer, writer and futuristic architect (born 1938)<ref>"Roy Mason, Obituary", The Futurist, September–October 1996.</ref>
- July 17 – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect (born 1900)
- July 27 – Dame Jane Drew, English modernist architect and town planner (born 1911)
- November 23 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect, designer of the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain (born 1912)