2006 in architecture

Events

January 9 – Fire destroys Chicago's 1891 Pilgrim Baptist Church, designed by Louis Sullivan.
January 31 – Ground breaks on Waterview Tower, and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago.
March 15 – Cirrus apartment building topped off in Helsinki, becoming the tallest building in Finland (until 2014).
April 10 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated greenway in New York City.
April 27 – Construction work begins on the Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center.
July 8 – The government of Abu Dhabi and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
September 21 – Construction work begins on the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management campus, designed by David Adjaye.

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Buildings

February 5 – Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 inaugurated, designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers.
March 1 – The Senedd, the National Assembly building in Cardiff, Wales, by architect Richard Rogers, is opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.^[1]

April 4 – Busch Stadium, designed by Populous (formerly HOK sport), opened as the new home of the St. Louis Cardinals.
May 4 – Hearst Tower employees move into the Norman Foster designed, diagrid building near Columbus Circle, in New York City.
May 5 – Aurora Tower opened to the public as the tallest building in Brisbane, Australia (until 2012).
May 19 – Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, designed by UNStudio, opened.
May 23 – 7 World Trade Center officially opens the new building designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill at noon, with a free concert.
May 26 – Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main Station) opening ceremony. Design from the winning competition entry by the Hamburg architecture firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners.
June 14 – Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts grand opening in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Canadian Diamond and Schmitt Architects.
June 16 – The National Library of Belarus opened in Minsk, Belarus in the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron.
June 20 – Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, designed by Jean Nouvel, inaugurated.
June 26 – Savill Building opens at the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, with a gridshell roof designed by Glen Howells Architects.
July – Red Ribbon (bench), designed by Turenscape as part of Tanghe River Park, Qinhuangdao, China, opens.^[2]
July 1 – Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, designed by Foster and Partners opens as part of The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture refurbishment in Washington, D.C.^[2]
July 22 – Emirates Stadium, designed by Populous, opened in the London Borough of Islington for the Arsenal Football Club.
Summer – House of Sweden (the Swedish embassy) completed in Washington, D.C., designed by Swedish architects Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.
September – Museum of Modern Literature (Literaturmuseum der Moderne or LiMo) opened in Marbach, Germany, by British architect David Chipperfield.
September 2 – Bishan Community Library opened in Singapore.
October – Janelia Farm Research Campus completed in Loudoun County, Virginia, by Rafael Viñoly.
October 5 – The Arsht Center opens in Downtown Miami, Florida as the third largest performing arts center in the United States.
October 11 – Eureka Tower a 297.3 metres (975 ft) residential skyscraper, designed by Fender Katsalidis Architects, opens in Melbourne, Australia.

October 26 – Klaus Advanced Computing Building officially opened on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology, by American architects Perkins+Will.^[3]
October 27 – Vesteda Tower a 90 m (300 ft) residential tower, designed by Jo Coenen, opens in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
November – Maggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a drop-in cancer care centre; Zaha Hadid's first built work in the United Kingdom.^[4]
December 1
- Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, designed by Architectus, opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse officially opened in Eugene, Oregon, designed by Morphosis.
date unknown – America's Cup Building inaugurated in Valencia, Spain, designed by British architect David Chipperfield.^[5]

Deaths

March 9 – Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian architect (born 1923)
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies (born 1916)^[8]
May 10 – Nisse Strinning, Swedish architect and designer (born 1917)
July 5 – Hugh Stubbins, US architect (born 1912)

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