2009 in architecture

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The year 2009 in architecture involves some significant events.

Buildings

• January 17 – Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.
• January 31 – Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens.
• February 22 – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City reopens after major renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• March 14 – New Cardiff Central Library in St. David's, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Building Design Partnership, opens to the public.
• April 2 – The new Yankee Stadium completed in the Bronx, by Populous (formerly HOK Sport).
• April 13 – Opening day at Citi Field, the new home of the New York Yankees.
• April 25 – Prada Transformer building, designed by Rem Koolhaas opens in Seoul, South Korea.
• April 30 – 300 New Jersey Avenue office building opens on the mall in Washington, D.C.. Designed by British architect Richard Rogers.
• May 21 – Museum Brandhorst opened in Munich, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton.
• May 27 – Cowboys Stadium designed by HKS, completed as the home of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.
• June 8 – Opening day for the first segment of the High Line Park in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
• August 4 – The Knut Hamsun Centre opened in Hamarøy, Norway. Designed by Steven Holl.
• August 15 – Opening ceremony for 41 Cooper Square, the new Cooper Union academic building in New York City, designed by Thom Mayne.
• September 29 – Manitoba Hydro Place opens in downtown Winnipeg, designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto.
• October 21 – Construction completed on Soccer City (FNB Stadium) in Johannesburg, South Africa, host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
• November 1 – Yas Marina Hotel is completed in the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, designed by Asymptote Architecture of New York.
• November 7 – Completion of extensive three-year internal rebuild and expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to the designs of Rick Mather.
• November – Building of MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid, completed.
• December 5 – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas (part of the CityCenter complex) is opened in Las Vegas.
• December 16 – The CityCenter urban complex opens in Las Vegas, designed by Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects.
• December 27 – Darunaman Mosque completed in northern Thailand.
• The Cathedral of the Annunciation is completed in Voronezh, Russia.
• The Tower, Meridian Quay, is completed in Swansea, Wales, designed by Latitude Architects.

Events

• October 21 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates 50th year anniversary (after a three year restoration effort).
• Burj Khalifa was set to open several different times in 2009, and ultimately postponed until 2010.
• May 26 – construction works at Louvre Abu Dhabi officially started.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Tegnestuen Vandkunsten
• Architecture Firm Award – Olson Kundig Architects
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – François Ascher
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Aqua
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Snøhetta
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Zaha Hadid
• Pritzker Prize – Peter Zumthor
• RAIA Gold Medal – Ken Maher
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Álvaro Siza Vieira
• Stirling Prize – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
• Twenty-five Year Award – Faneuil Hall Marketplace
• Vincent Scully Prize – Christopher Alexander

Deaths

• January 14 – Jan Kaplický (born 1937)
• July 15 – Julius Shulman (born 1910) died in Los Angeles, California, at age 98. Best known for photographs of modernist California houses.
• August 3 – Charles Gwathmey FAIA (born 1938) died in New York City, at age 71
• August 16 – Mualla Eyüboğlu (born 1919)
• December 8 – Claude Vasconi (born 1940)

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