Overview of the events of 2009 in architecture
The year 2009 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
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January 22 – Wales Millennium Centre , Cardiff , Wales , opens to the public.January 31 – Porsche Museum, Stuttgart , designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens.February 15 – Princess Elisabeth Antarctica , inaugurated.February 22 – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City reopens after major renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro .March 7 – Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College , Santa Paula, California , designed by Duncan G. Stroik , is dedicated.March 14 – New Cardiff Central Library in St. David's , Cardiff , Wales , designed by Building Design Partnership , opens to the public.April 2 – New Yankee Stadium , home of the New York Yankees baseball team in the Bronx , designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport), opens.April 13 – Citi Field , new home of the New York Mets baseball team in Queens , opens.April 25 – Prada Transformer building in Seoul , South Korea , designed by Rem Koolhaas , opens.April 30 – 300 New Jersey Avenue office building on the mall in Washington, D.C. , designed by British architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners , opens.Aqua in downtown Chicago , USA May 21 – Museum Brandhorst in Munich , designed by Sauerbruch Hutton , opens.June 8 – First segment of the High Line Park in Chelsea, Manhattan opens.June 12 – Hafod Eryri at the summit of Snowdon in Wales, designed by Ray Hole Architects , is opened.[1] June 21 – New Acropolis Museum in Athens , designed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis, opens to the public.July – New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in Kuching , Malaysia, officially opened. August 4 – The Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy , Norway , designed by Steven Holl , opens.August 15 – 41 Cooper Square , the new Cooper Union academic building in New York City, designed by Thom Mayne , has its opening ceremony.September 9 – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art , Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl , opens.Liège-Guillemins railway station in Liège , BelgiumSeptember 18 – Liège-Guillemins railway station in Belgium, designed by Santiago Calatrava , has its opening ceremony.September 29 – Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg , designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto , opens.October 16 – Extensive interior reconstruction of the Neues Museum , Berlin , to the designs of David Chipperfield , is officially opened.November 7 – Extensive three-year internal rebuild and expansion of the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , to the designs of Rick Mather , is completed.November 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (gallery) in Nottingham , England, designed by Caruso St John , opens.December – Jamieson Place (Calgary) in Calgary , Alberta December 5 – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas , part of the CityCenter complex in Paradise, Nevada , opens.December 16 – The CityCenter urban complex in Paradise, Nevada, designed by Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, opens.date unknown – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum library at Humboldt University of Berlin , designed by Max Dudler .
Buildings completed May 21 – Stanbrook Abbey , Wass, North Yorkshire , England, first stage, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios .[2] May 27 – Cowboys Stadium , new home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, designed by HKS.October 21 – Soccer City (FNB Stadium) in Johannesburg, South Africa , host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup .November – MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy , designed by Zaha Hadid . November 1 – Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi in the Yas Marina Circuit , Abu Dhabi , designed by Asymptote Architecture of New York.December 27 – Darunaman Mosque in northern Thailand .date unknown The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Voronezh , Russia . Legacy Tower , Chicago , designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz.The Tower, Meridian Quay , Swansea , Wales, designed by Latitude Architects.Punta della Dogana art museum in Venice , restored by Tadao Ando .Woodward's Building in Vancouver , Canada .Bateman's Row (home and studio) in Shoreditch , London, designed for themselves by Theis + Khan Architects.[3] Buildings in Spain designed by Alberto Campo Baeza
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See also
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