2000 in architecture

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The year 2000 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

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• February 19 – Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, USA, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects.
• March 8 – Peckham Library in London, UK, designed by Alsop and Störmer. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
• May 12 – Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron.
• October 12 – The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England, designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold.
• August 19 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, reconstructed to Konstantin Thon's 1832 design, is dedicated.
• October 25 – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial unveiled in Vienna, designed by Rachel Whiteread.
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  • Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California, USA, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis.
  • Experience Music Project in Seattle, USA, designed by Frank Gehry.

Buildings completed

• Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is the first building to be completed in the competition between two Saudi princes. The Kingdom Center is completed several months later.

Events

• June 22 – The Architect company Snøhetta wins the international Architect competition for Oslo's New National Opera House.
• Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Ricardo Legorreta
• Architecture Firm Award – Gensler
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Sofitel New York Hotel
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Alexandre Chemetoff
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Richard Rogers
• Pritzker Prize – Rem Koolhaas
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Philippe Gazeau
• RAIA Gold Medal – John Morphett
• Royal Gold Medal – Frank Gehry
• Stirling Prize – Alsop & Störmer, Peckham Library
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
• Twenty-five Year Award – The Smith House
• Vincent Scully Prize – Jane Jacobs

Deaths

• January 18 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect in the Nazi Resistance movement (born 1897)
• February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist and architect (born 1928)
• July 3 – Enric Miralles, Spanish architect (born 1955)
• July 29 - Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan engineer and architect (born 1917)