2024 in architecture

The year 2024 in architecture involved various significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

• January – The Arch of Reunification in North Korea is demolished within a week of Kim Jong Un calling for it.^[1]
• August – Removal of non-structural columns in a refurbishment of the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery reveals a note from the building's sponsor John, Lord Sainsbury (d. 2022) indicating that he disagreed with the building's original architects (Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, 1991) over their inclusion in the first place.^[2]
• November 29 – Interior restoration of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral after the 2019 fire is first revealed publicly.^[3]

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2024

Albania

• Mixed-use skyscrapers in Tirana:
  • The Book Building, designed by 51N4E, completed.^[4]
  • Downtown One, designed by MVRDV, official opening scheduled.^[5]
  • Eyes of Tirana, designed by Henning Larsen Architects, completion expected.^[6]
  • Vertical Forest Tirana, designed by Stefano Boeri, expected completion in third quarter of 2024.^[7][8]

Malaysia

• Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur, the second-tallest structure and the second-tallest building in the world, designed by Fender Katsalidis in association with RSP KL, officially opened on 10 January 2024.^[9]

Awards

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture –
• AIA Gold Medal – David Lake and Ted Flat
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture –
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Gustav Düsing and Büro Max Hacke)^[10]
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Riken Yamamoto^[11]
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Lesley Lokko^[12]
• Stirling Prize – Elizabeth line, London^[13]

Exhibitions

• September 30 until March 16, 2025 – "Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[14]

Deaths

• January 18 - Heinz Tesar, 84, an Austrian architect, best known for his church and museum architecture (born 1939)
• January 6 - Kurt W. Forster, 88, Swiss architecture historian and teacher (born 1935)
• February 16 - Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, 89, American architect (born 1934)
• February 24 - Bill Alington, 94, New Zealand modernist architect (born 1929)
• October 2 - Christopher Charles Benninger, 82, American-born Indian architect and urban planner (born 1942)
• November 4 - Victor A. Lundy, 101, American modernist architect (Warm Mineral Springs Motel) (born 1923)
• December 16 - Yoshio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese architect (MoMA) (born 1937)
• December 18 - Friedrich St. Florian, 91, Austrian-American architect (World War II Memorial, Providence Place) (born 1932)

See also

• Timeline of architecture