2009 in architecture
# 2009 in architecture

The year 2009 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* March 3 – Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (1971) collapses.
* April 6 – 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in Italy; dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapses for the second time.
* May 26 – Construction work at Louvre Abu Dhabi officially begins.
* October 21 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City celebrates its 50th anniversary (after a three-year restoration effort).
* November – The second World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.
* Burj Khalifa is set to open several different times in 2009, and ultimately postponed until 2010.
* The Russia Tower gets cancelled due to unknown reasons.
* PLP Architecture founded in London.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* January – Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, the largest and most expensive embassy in the world, opens.
* January 17 – Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.

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* January 22 – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, opens to the public.
* January 31 – Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens.
* February 15 – Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, inaugurated.
* February 22 – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City reopens after major renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
* March 7 – Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, designed by Duncan G. Stroik, is dedicated.
* March 14 – New Cardiff Central Library in St. David's, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Building Design Partnership, opens to the public.
* April 2 – New Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team in the Bronx, designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport), opens.
* April 13 – Citi Field, new home of the New York Mets baseball team in Queens, opens.
* April 25 – Prada Transformer building in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens.
* April 30 – 300 New Jersey Avenue office building on the mall in Washington, D.C., designed by British architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens.
* May 21 – Museum Brandhorst in Munich, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, opens.
* June 8 – First segment of the High Line Park in Chelsea, Manhattan opens.
* June 12 – Hafod Eryri at the summit of Snowdon in Wales, designed by Ray Hole Architects, is opened.
* June 21 – New Acropolis Museum in Athens, designed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis, opens to the public.
* July – New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in Kuching, Malaysia, officially opened.
* August 4 – The Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, Norway, designed by Steven Holl, opens.
* August 15 – 41 Cooper Square, the new Cooper Union academic building in New York City, designed by Thom Mayne, has its opening ceremony.
* September 9 – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl, opens.
* September 18 – Liège-Guillemins railway station in Belgium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has its opening ceremony.
* September 29 – Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg, designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto, opens.
* October 16 – Extensive interior reconstruction of the Neues Museum, Berlin, to the designs of David Chipperfield, is officially opened.
* November 7 – Extensive three-year internal rebuild and expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to the designs of Rick Mather, is completed.
* November 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (gallery) in Nottingham, England, designed by Caruso St John, opens.
* December – Jamieson Place (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta
* December 5 – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, part of the CityCenter complex in Paradise, Nevada, opens.
* December 16 – The CityCenter urban complex in Paradise, Nevada, designed by Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, opens.
* date unknown – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum library at Humboldt University of Berlin, designed by Max Dudler.

### Buildings completed

* May 21 – Stanbrook Abbey, Wass, North Yorkshire, England, first stage, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
* May 27 – Cowboys Stadium, new home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, designed by HKS.
* October 21 – Soccer City (FNB Stadium) in Johannesburg, South Africa, host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
* November – MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid.
* November 1 – Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi in the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, designed by Asymptote Architecture of New York.
* December 27 – Darunaman Mosque in northern Thailand.
* date unknown
   * The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Voronezh, Russia.
   * Legacy Tower, Chicago, designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz.
   * The Tower, Meridian Quay, Swansea, Wales, designed by Latitude Architects.
   * Punta della Dogana art museum in Venice, restored by Tadao Ando.
   * Woodward's Building in Vancouver, Canada.
   * Bateman's Row (home and studio) in Shoreditch, London, designed for themselves by Theis + Khan Architects.
   * Buildings in Spain designed by Alberto Campo Baeza
      * "Between Cathedrals", Cádiz.
      * MA Museum, Granada.
      * Rufo House, Toledo.

## Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
* Alvar Aalto Medal – Tegnestuen Vandkunsten
* Architecture Firm Award – Olson Kundig Architects
* Driehaus Architecture Prize – Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil
* Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – François Ascher
* Emporis Skyscraper Award – Aqua
* European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Snøhetta
* Lawrence Israel Prize - Gaetano Pesce
* Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Zaha Hadid
* Pritzker Prize – Peter Zumthor
* RAIA Gold Medal – Ken Maher
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Álvaro Siza Vieira
* Stirling Prize – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
* Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Robert Irwin.
* Twenty-five Year Award – Faneuil Hall Marketplace
* Vincent Scully Prize – Christopher Alexander

## Deaths

* January 14 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect (born 1937)
* February 3 – Earl Flansburgh, Boston architect (born 1931)
* February 23 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (born 1924)
* July 9 – H. T. Cadbury-Brown, English architect (born 1913)
* July 15 – Julius Shulman, California architectural photographer (born 1910)
* August 3 – Charles Gwathmey, American architect (born 1938)
* August 16 – Mualla Eyüboğlu, one of the first female Turkish architects (born 1919)
* November 27 – Maxwell M. Kalman, Québécois architect (born 1906)
* December 8 – Claude Vasconi, French architect (born 1940)
