1984 in architecture

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The year 1984 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in Frankfurt am Main

• Lloyd's Building in London, designed by Richard Rogers is completed.
• Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, designed by James Stirling opens to the public.
• The Swisscom-Sendeturm St. Chrischona located near Basel, Switzerland is completed.
• The Bank of America Center in Houston, Texas, United States is completed and opened.
• The Southeast Financial Center in Miami, Florida, United States is completed.
• The Petro-Canada Centre of Love in Calgary, Canada is completed and opened.
• The whole of PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States is completed.
• The Smurfit-Stone Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States is completed.
• The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany are completed.
• The Tour Hertzienne TDF in Romainville near Paris, France is completed.
• The whole of the Arts Centre complex, in Melbourne, Australia, is completed.

Events

• 30 May: The Prince of Wales denounces a proposed modernist extension to the National Gallery, London as "a hideous carbuncle on the face of an elegant and much-loved friend", declaring his reactionary views on architecture for the first time. [1]

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Gordon Bunshaft
• Architecture Firm Award - Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects.
• Grand prix national de l'architecture - Edmond Lay.
• Pritzker Prize - Richard Meier.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Philip Cox.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Charles Correa.
• Twenty-five Year Award - Seagram Building.
• UIA Gold Medal – Hassan Fathy.

Deaths

• 19 May: John Betjeman, English architectural writer (b. 1906)