The year 2011 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Buildings opened
Salvador Dali Museum , St. Petersburg, Florida , United States
Museo Soumaya in Mexico City , Mexico
Riverside Museum in Glasgow , Scotland
January 11 – Salvador Dali Museum , St. Petersburg, Florida , United States, designed by HOK .
January 21 – Museum of Old and New Art , on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart , Tasmania , Australia , designed by Nonda Katsalidis .
January 25 – New World Center , home of the New World Symphony Orchestra , at Miami Beach, Florida , designed by Frank Gehry .[4]
February 10 — The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University , designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro [5]
February 28 – Museo Soumaya in Mexico City , designed by Fernando Romero .[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
March 1 – Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal at MediaCityUK , Salford Quays , England, designed by Gifford and Wilkinson Eyre Architects .
April 16 – Turner Contemporary art gallery, in Margate , Kent , England, designed by David Chipperfield .[12]
May 1 – New Lyric Theatre, Belfast , designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey of Dublin .[13]
May 21 – The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, West Yorkshire , England , designed by David Chipperfield .[12]
May 31 – Ponte della Musica-Armando Trovajoli across the Tiber in Rome, Italy, designed by BuroHappold Engineering and Powell-Williams Architects.
June – Windmill Hill archive centre, Waddesdon , England, designed by Stephen Marshall.[14]
June 16 – Gothenburg Mosque , Sweden.
June 20 – Riverside Museum , the new development of the Glasgow Museum of Transport in Scotland , designed by Zaha Hadid Architects .
June 25 – Peace Bridge across the River Foyle in Derry , Northern Ireland , designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects .
July 19 – New Museum of Liverpool , at Liverpool Pier Head , England, designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold .[15]
August 27 – Rustavi Sioni , church in Rustavi , Georgia , designed by Besarion Menabde, Nikoloz Abashidze and Nikolos Dadiani (consecration date).
September – firstsite new art gallery, Colchester , England, designed by Rafael Viñoly .[12]
September 11 – National September 11 Memorial , Reflecting Absence , on the World Trade Center site in New York City , USA, designed by architect Michael Arad with landscape architect Peter Walker (dedication date).
September 13 – Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, Stratford, London .
October 12 – Royal Opera House Muscat opens in Muscat , Oman .
October 20 — The Human Ecology Building at Cornell University is dedicated. Designed by Gruzen-Samton Architects (IBI Group) .[16]
December 21 – Capital Gate skyscraper hotel and office building, in Abu Dhabi .
Buildings completed
Olympic Stadium (London) , England
Metropol Parasol in Seville , Spain
Aberdeen University New Library in Scotland
ArcelorMittal Orbit at Olympic Park, London , England
January
February
March 29 – London Olympic Stadium , designed by Populous .
April – Metropol Parasol in Seville , Spain, designed by Jürgen Mayer .
July 6 – Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower , the tallest building in Panama and Latin America .
July 27 – London Aquatics Centre , designed by Zaha Hadid .
September
October 20 — Milstein Hall at Cornell University , designed by Rem Koolhaas [19]
October 28 – ArcelorMittal Orbit , designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond , erected at Olympic Park, London .
November
dates unknown
N M Rothschild & Sons ' New Court banking headquarters in the City of London , designed by Rem Koolhaas 's OMA , completed.[21]
Brockholes Visitor Centre, a floating wooden nature reserve centre designed by Adam Khan of Arca, opens near Preston, Lancashire , England.[22]
Eighth Avenue Place East in Calgary , Alberta
Maggie's Centres , drop-in cancer care centres in Great Britain [13]
Temporary Serpentine Pavilion in London, designed by Peter Zumthor .[23]
Folly for a Flyover, a 'pop-up' temporary arts centre in East London , England, designed by Assemble.[13]
New Hospital Pavilion, University of Chicago Medical Center , designed by Rafael Viñoly , projected for completion.
University of Arizona Science Center, Tucson , designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
The Crystal, Copenhagen , Denmark (part of Nykredit headquarters), designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects .
Kravis Center, Claremont McKenna College , Claremont, California , designed by Rafael Viñoly, projected for completion.
June 6
September 17 – Colin Madigan , Australian architect (born 1921 )
September 27 – Imre Makovecz , Hungarian architect (born 1935 )
October 2 – Efraín Recinos , Guatemalan architect (born 1928 )
October 5 – Enver Faja , Albanian architect (born 1934 )
October 24 – Bruno Weber , Swiss architect (born 1931 )
November 25 – Karel Hubacek , Czech architect (born 1924 )
December 12 – Gene Summers , American architect (born 1928 )
December 26 – Kiyonori Kikutake , Japanese architect, co-founder of the Metabolist group.[24] (born 1928 )
December 27 – Anne Tyng , American architect (born 1920 )
December 30 – Ricardo Legorreta , Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medalist (born 1931 )
Higgins, Charlotte (10 April 2011). "Amid tough times, gallery building boom brings hope for the future". The Guardian . London. p. 11.
Moore, Rowan (2011-12-11). "Architecture". The Observer . London. p. 21 (The New Review).
Boscia, Ted (11 October 2011). "Human Ecology Building advances science and design" . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University. Retrieved 21 August 2018 . The building, which will be officially dedicated Oct. 20 with a ribbon cutting, was designed by the architecture firm Gruzen Samton
Moore, Rowan (2011-11-27). "An office that's right on the money". The Observer . London. p. 42 (The New Review).