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