2001 in architecture

Events

• January 13 – Biblioteca Gallardo, one of the most important libraries in Central America, is among buildings destroyed in the January 2001 El Salvador earthquake.
• February 11 – Three Rivers Stadium, in Pittsburgh, United States, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, is demolished.
• April – Proposals for the Grollo Tower in Melbourne, Australia, projected to become the tallest in the world at this time, are rejected by the local authority.
• September 11 – September 11 attacks: World Trade Center in New York City is destroyed, and The Pentagon is heavily damaged by hijacked airliners. In New York, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is completely destroyed; and the Deutsche Bank Building and Fiterman Hall are subsequently demolished due to severe damage.
• December 15 – Preservation efforts having been completed on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it reopens to the public after 12 years of reconstruction.
• unknown date – 6a architects is established by Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson in London.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• January 26 – Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, designed by Toyo Ito.
• March 11 – National Museum of Australia in Canberra, designed by Howard Raggatt
• March 17 – Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, UK, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
• April – Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK, designed by Wilkinson Eyre. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
• May 4
• *Milwaukee Art Museum opens the Quadracci Pavilion, the first completed American project by Santiago Calatrava.
• *Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque opens in Muscat, Oman.
• June 28 – Gehry Tower in Hanover, Germany.
• June 30 – National Space Centre, Leicester, England, by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
• September 9
• *Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, Berlin, Germany.
• *National Museum of Ireland's Museum of Country Life, Turlough, County Mayo, designed by Des Byrne of Architecture Services, Office of Public Works, is opened.
• September 17 – Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a pedestrian tilt bridge for spanning the River Tyne, UK, designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford. It wins the 2002 Stirling Prize.
• September 23 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan, designed by Stepan Kurkchyan.
• November – Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, constructed to host the Academy Awards.
• November 15 – Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada, USA, designed by The Jerde Partnership.
• November 21 – Cologne Tower inaugurated; designed by Kohl & Kohl and Jean Nouvel.
• December 10 – Puente de la Mujer, a pedestrian swing cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge spanning a dock in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated.
• December 11 – American Folk Art Museum in New York City, USA, inaugurated; designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
• date unknown
• *Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg
• *Neue Galerie New York, opened in the William Starr Miller House, New York City, United States.

Buildings completed

• October 30 – Redevelopment of Gasometer, Vienna, by Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Manfred Wehdorn and Wilhelm Holzbauer is completed.
• date unknown
• *88 Wood Street office building, City of London, by Richard Rogers.
• *Caja General de Ahorros, Granada, by Alberto Campo Baeza.
• *Betty and Gordon Moore Library in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), UK, designed by Edward Cullinan Architects.
• *Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt
• *DG Bank building in Berlin, Germany, by Frank Gehry.
• *Telekom Tower building, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• *One Wall Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by architects Perkins+Will Canada.
• *Ku’damm-Eck in Berlin, Germany, by Gerkan, Marg und Partner.
• *Neues Kranzler Eck in Berlin, Germany, by Helmut Jahn.
• *Tower 2000, the first building in the Moscow International Business Centre, Russia.
• *Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway
• *Exhibition building at Scotland's National Museum of Rural Life completed by Page\Park Architects.
• *Building D, Giudecca, Venice, by Cino Zucchi.
• *Jacobs Ladder at Chinnor, England, by Niall McLaughlin Architects.

Awards

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture – Geoffrey Bawa
• AIA Gold Medal – Michael Graves
• Architecture Firm Award – Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – One Wall Centre
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Rafael Moneo for Kursaal Centre
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Jean-Louis Subileau
• Mies van der Rohe Prize – Rafael Moneo
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Jean Nouvel
• Pritzker Prize – Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
• RAIA Gold Medal – Keith Cottier
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Jean Nouvel
• Stirling Prize – Wilkinson Eyre Architects for Magna Centre, Rotherham
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Glenn Murcutt
• Twenty-five Year Award – Weyerhaeuser Headquarters
• Vincent Scully Prize – Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Deaths

• January 11 – Denys Lasdun, British architect
• January 18 – Morris Lapidus, US Neo-baroque Miami Modern architect
• February 4 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer
• March 14 – Robert S. McMillan, US architect, co-founder of The Architects Collaborative
• December 30 – Samuel Mockbee, US architect