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Overview of the events of 2011 in architecture
The year 2011 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Salvador Dali Museum ,
St. Petersburg, Florida , United States
Museo Soumaya in
Mexico City , Mexico
Riverside Museum in
Glasgow , Scotland
January 11 –
Salvador Dali Museum ,
St. Petersburg, Florida , United States, designed by
HOK .
January 21 –
Museum of Old and New Art , on the
Berriedale peninsula in
Hobart ,
Tasmania ,
Australia , designed by
Nonda Katsalidis .
January 25 –
New World Center , home of the
New World Symphony Orchestra , at
Miami Beach, Florida , designed by
Frank Gehry .
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February 10 — The
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at
Brown University , designed by
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
[5]
February 28 –
Museo Soumaya in
Mexico City , designed by
Fernando Romero .
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March 1 –
Media City Footbridge across the
Manchester Ship Canal at
MediaCityUK ,
Salford Quays , England, designed by
Gifford and
Wilkinson Eyre Architects .
April 16 –
Turner Contemporary art gallery, in
Margate ,
Kent , England, designed by
David Chipperfield .
[12]
May 1 – New
Lyric Theatre, Belfast , designed by
O'Donnell & Tuomey of
Dublin .
[13]
May 21 –
The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery,
West Yorkshire ,
England , designed by
David Chipperfield .
[12]
May 31 –
Ponte della Musica-Armando Trovajoli across the
Tiber in Rome, Italy, designed by
BuroHappold Engineering and Powell-Williams Architects.
June – Windmill Hill archive centre,
Waddesdon , England, designed by Stephen Marshall.
[14]
June 16 –
Gothenburg Mosque , Sweden.
June 20 –
Riverside Museum , the new development of the
Glasgow Museum of Transport in
Scotland , designed by
Zaha Hadid Architects .
June 25 –
Peace Bridge across the
River Foyle in
Derry ,
Northern Ireland , designed by
Wilkinson Eyre Architects .
July 19 – New
Museum of Liverpool , at
Liverpool
Pier Head , England, designed by architects
3XN and engineers
Buro Happold .
[15]
August 27 –
Rustavi Sioni , church in
Rustavi ,
Georgia , designed by Besarion Menabde, Nikoloz Abashidze and Nikolos Dadiani (consecration date).
September –
firstsite new art gallery,
Colchester , England, designed by
Rafael Viñoly .
[12]
September 11 –
National September 11 Memorial , Reflecting Absence , on the
World Trade Center site in
New York City , USA, designed by architect
Michael Arad with landscape architect Peter Walker (dedication date).
September 13 –
Westfield Stratford City shopping mall,
Stratford, London .
October 12 –
Royal Opera House Muscat opens in
Muscat ,
Oman .
October 20 — The Human Ecology Building at
Cornell University is dedicated. Designed by
Gruzen-Samton Architects (IBI Group) .
[16]
December 21 –
Capital Gate skyscraper hotel and office building, in
Abu Dhabi .
Olympic Stadium (London) , England
Metropol Parasol in
Seville , Spain
Aberdeen University New Library in Scotland
ArcelorMittal Orbit at
Olympic Park, London , England
January
February
March 29 –
London Olympic Stadium , designed by
Populous .
April –
Metropol Parasol in
Seville , Spain, designed by
Jürgen Mayer .
July 6 –
Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower ,
the tallest building in Panama and
Latin America .
July 27 –
London Aquatics Centre , designed by
Zaha Hadid .
September
October 20 — Milstein Hall at
Cornell University , designed by
Rem Koolhaas
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October 28 –
ArcelorMittal Orbit , designed by
Anish Kapoor with
Cecil Balmond , erected at
Olympic Park, London .
November
dates unknown
N M Rothschild & Sons ' New Court banking headquarters in the
City of London , designed by
Rem Koolhaas 's
OMA , completed.
[21]
Brockholes Visitor Centre, a floating wooden nature reserve centre designed by Adam Khan of Arca, opens near
Preston, Lancashire , England.
[22]
Eighth Avenue Place East in
Calgary ,
Alberta
Maggie's Centres , drop-in cancer care centres in
Great Britain
[13]
Temporary
Serpentine Pavilion in London, designed by
Peter Zumthor .
[23]
Folly for a Flyover, a 'pop-up' temporary arts centre in
East London , England, designed by Assemble.
[13]
New Hospital Pavilion,
University of Chicago Medical Center , designed by
Rafael Viñoly , projected for completion.
University of Arizona Science Center,
Tucson , designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
The Crystal, Copenhagen , Denmark (part of
Nykredit headquarters), designed by
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects .
Kravis Center,
Claremont McKenna College ,
Claremont, California , designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
June 6
September 17 –
Colin Madigan , Australian architect (born
1921 )
September 27 –
Imre Makovecz , Hungarian architect (born
1935 )
October 2 –
Efraín Recinos , Guatemalan architect (born
1928 )
October 5 –
Enver Faja , Albanian architect (born
1934 )
October 24 –
Bruno Weber , Swiss architect (born
1931 )
November 25 –
Karel Hubacek , Czech architect (born
1924 )
December 12 –
Gene Summers , American architect (born
1928 )
December 26 –
Kiyonori Kikutake , Japanese architect, co-founder of the
Metabolist group.
[24] (born
1928 )
December 27 –
Anne Tyng , American architect (born
1920 )
December 30 –
Ricardo Legorreta , Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medalist (born
1931 )
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"Preah Vihear temple shelled in clashes between Cambodia and Thai" . Beijing: News.xinhuanet.com. 2011-02-07. Archived from
the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-10 . Thai officials claim that the temple sustained only minor damage.
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"BBC North" . Wilkinson Eyre Architects. Archived from
the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2011-12-26 .
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"St Paul's Cathedral completes £40m restoration project" .
BBC News . London. 2011-06-15.
Archived from the original on 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2018-05-28 .
^ Hawthorne, Christopher (2011-01-24).
"Architecture review: Frank Gehry's New World Center in Miami Beach" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2011-12-19 .
^ Baum, Deborah (25 January 2011).
"The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts opens at Brown" . Brown University. Retrieved 27 October 2018 . Brown University will officially open the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Feb. 10, 2011
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"Museo Soumaya in Mexico City gets asymmetrical new building" .
Wired . 26 November 2010. Archived from
the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2017 .
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"Carlos Slim: At home with the world's richest man" .
The Daily Telegraph . London. 21 February 2011.
^ Casey, Nicholas (3 March 2011).
"Emperor's New Museum" .
The Wall Street Journal . New York. Retrieved 29 March 2011 .
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"Mexico's Carlos Slim Builds a Dazzling Art Palace" .
Business Week . New York. 26 January 2010. Archived from
the original on January 29, 2010.
^ Tuckman, Jo (2 March 2011).
"Mexican billionaire's new museum gives The Thinker much to ponder" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 29 March 2011 .
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"Carlos Slim's Museo Soumaya: Money Can't Buy Taste" . ArtInfo . April 12, 2011.
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c Higgins, Charlotte (10 April 2011). "Amid tough times, gallery building boom brings hope for the future". The Guardian . London. p. 11.
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c Moore, Rowan (2011-12-11). "Architecture". The Observer . London. p. 21 (The New Review).
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"Whistle down the windmill" . World Architecture News . Retrieved 2015-09-29 .
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"Museum of Liverpool schedule and key dates" .
National Museums Liverpool . Retrieved 2011-07-19 .
^ Boscia, Ted (11 October 2011).
"Human Ecology Building advances science and design" . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University. Retrieved 21 August 2018 . The building, which will be officially dedicated Oct. 20 with a ribbon cutting, was designed by the architecture firm Gruzen Samton
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Ouroussoff, Nicolai (2011-02-09).
"Downtown Skyscraper For the Digital Age" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2011-12-19 .
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"Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico" . eVolo . 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2015-04-10 .
^ Aloi, Daniel (13 October 2011).
"Milstein Hall now complete with state-of-the-art auditorium" . Cornell University. Retrieved 28 June 2018 .
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Moore, Rowan (2011-12-04).
"Canada Water library – review" .
The Observer . London. Retrieved 2016-07-07 .
^ Moore, Rowan (2011-11-27). "An office that's right on the money". The Observer . London. p. 42 (The New Review).
^ Moore, Rowan (2011-05-01).
"Brockholes nature reserve visitor centre – review" . The Observer . London. Retrieved 2011-12-19 .
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Glancey, Jonathan (2011-06-27).
"Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2011-12-19 .
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日本を代表する建築家、菊竹清訓氏が死去 83歳 建築運動「メタボリズム」をリード (in Japanese).
MSN . 2012-01-05. Archived from
the original on 30 April 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2012 .