2024 in architecture
The year 2024 in architecture involved various significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- January – The Arch of Reunification in North Korea is demolished within a week of Kim Jong Un calling for it.
- August – Removal of non-structural columns in a refurbishment of the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery reveals a note from the building's sponsor John, Lord Sainsbury indicating that he disagreed with the building's original architects over their inclusion in the first place.
- November 29 – Interior restoration of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral after the 2019 fire is first revealed publicly.
Buildings and structures
Albania
- Mixed-use skyscrapers in Tirana:
- * The Book Building, designed by 51N4E, completed.
- * Downtown One, designed by MVRDV, official opening scheduled.
- * Eyes of Tirana, designed by Henning Larsen Architects, completion expected.
- * Vertical Forest Tirana, designed by Stefano Boeri, expected completion in third quarter of 2024.
Malaysia
- Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, the second-tallest structure and the second-tallest building in the world, designed by Fender Katsalidis in association with RSP KL, officially opened on 10 January 2024.
Poland
- Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, opened on 25 October 2024.
Awards
- Aga Khan Award for Architecture –
- AIA Gold Medal – David Lake and Ted Flat
- Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture –
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Riken Yamamoto
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Lesley Lokko
- Stirling Prize – Elizabeth line, London
Exhibitions
- September 30 until March 16, 2025 – "Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Deaths
- January 6 - Kurt W. Forster, 88, Swiss architecture historian and teacher
- January 18 - Heinz Tesar, 84, Austrian architect, best known for his church and museum architecture
- February 5 - Peter Kulka, 86, German architect
- February 16 - Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, 89, American architect
- February 21 - Altuğ Çinici, 89, Turkish architect
- February 24 - Bill Alington, 94, New Zealand modernist architect
- February 24 - John Miller, 93, British architect
- March 2 - Antoine Predock, 87, American architect
- March 6 - Ray Grenald, 96, American architectural lighting designer
- March 9 - Lynn Kinnear, 64, British landscape architect
- March 9 - José Oubrerie, 91, French architect, author and educator
- March 26 - L. Jane Hastings, 96, American architect
- April 3 - Gaetano Pesce, 84, Italian architect and designer
- April 6 - Italo Rota, 70, Italian architect
- April 9 - Karl Momen, 90, Swedish architect, painter and sculptor
- April 29 - Ben Weese, 94, American architect
- April 30 - Renato De Fusco, 94, Italian architectural historian
- May 2 - Adolpho Lindenberg, 99, Brazilian civil engineer, architect and writer
- May 7 - Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, 95, American landscape architect and graphic designer
- May 20 - Aida Cruz, 101, Filipino architect
- May 20 - Bertus Mulder, 95, Dutch architect
- May 22 - Diana Cabeza, 69, Argentine architect and designer
- May 22 - Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić, 94, Macedonian architect, planner, and urban designer
- May 27 - Alan Choe, 93, Singaporean architect and urban planner
- May 30 - Pekka Salminen, 86, Finnish architect
- June 6 - Fumihiko Maki, 95, Japanese architect
- June 16 - Paul Chemetov, 95, French architect and urbanist
- June 24 - Alexandros Tombazis, 85, Greek architect
- July 22 - Maarja Nummert, 80, Estonian architect
- August 7 - Friedrich Möbius, 96, German art and architectural historian
- August 18 - Baruj Salinas, 89, Cuban-American contemporary visual artist and architect
- August 31 - Sir Harold Marshall, 92, New Zealand acoustician and architect
- September 4 - Colin Fournier, 79, British architect
- September 21 - Paola Marella, 61, Italian architect and television presenter
- September 30 - David Aradeon, 90, Nigerian-American architect
- October 2 - Christopher Charles Benninger, 82, American-born Indian architect and urban planner
- October 2 - Roger K. Lewis, 83, American architect and urban planner
- October 18 - Joseph Rykwert, 98, Polish-born British architectural historian
- October 19 - Sim Van der Ryn, 89, Dutch-born American architect
- November 4 - Victor A. Lundy, 101, American modernist architect
- November 7 - Sergio Los, 90, Italian architect and educator
- November 8 - Kazimierz Ferenc, 80, Polish architect and politician
- November 13 - Trond Eliassen, 102, Norwegian architect
- November 14 - Adolfo Moran, 70–71, Spanish architect
- November 26 - Jahangir Darvish, 91, Iranian architect
- December 16 - Yoshio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese architect
- December 18 - Friedrich St. Florian, 91, Austrian-American architect
- December 20 - Turgut Toydemir, 86, Turkish architect
- December 26 - Richard Gibson, 89, British architect