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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li>The <a href="/facts/Maupoleum/vvyBnE9A">Maupoleum</a> in <a href="/facts/Amsterdam/Xdd393bz">Amsterdam</a> is demolished.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1994</p> <h3>Buildings opened</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/May_6/blgxDDYV">May 6</a> – The <a href="/facts/Channel_Tunnel/qTu1Un9Q">Channel Tunnel</a> connecting <a href="/facts/Great_Britain/TNgGQRPj">Britain</a> and France is opened.</li> <li><a href="/facts/September_4/maLcngq6">September 4</a> – <a href="/facts/Kansai_International_Airport/3mNqFb7l">Kansai International Airport</a> in <a href="/facts/Osaka/sbS1N7sl">Osaka</a>, Japan, designed by <a href="/facts/Renzo_Piano/xnbg4XQn">Renzo Piano</a>, opens with its Terminal 1 as the longest building in the world.</li> <li><i>date unknown</i> – Channel 4 Building, home of the <a href="/facts/Channel_4/qosXcrpc">Channel 4</a> television company, designed by the <a href="/facts/Richard_Rogers/IG2q2nuI">Richard Rogers</a> Partnership, opened on Horseferry Road in <a href="/facts/City_of_Westminster/8pvuYHq2">Westminster</a>, London.</li></ul> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Oriental_Pearl_Tower/kATL6L2F">Oriental Pearl Tower</a>, Shanghai, China.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Shinjuku_Park_Tower/UEknrMLw">Shinjuku Park Tower</a>, in the <a href="/facts/Shinjuku/g0BY2Qz3">Shinjuku</a> district of Tokyo, Japan.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Kamiichi%2c_Toyama/e4sBf9HN">Kamiichi</a> Mountain Pavilion, Japan, designed by <a href="/facts/Peter_Salter/RjxjJ76h">Peter Salter</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/World_Trade_Center_M%25C3%25A9xico/8NvVSuAR">World Trade Center México</a>, Mexico City, Mexico.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Qingdao_TV_Tower/fU5WKkho">Qingdao TV Tower</a>, <a href="/facts/Qingdao/5BjM20Ju">Qingdao</a>, China.</li> <li><a href="/facts/International_Saddam_Tower/EjxmwW7R">International Saddam Tower</a>, <a href="/facts/Baghdad/RbtLzzHe">Baghdad</a>, Iraq.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Igualada_Cemetery/7wwuYgFY">Igualada Cemetery</a>, <a href="/facts/Catalonia/p2KeGXbf">Catalonia</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Enric_Miralles/ltFdBE5e">Enric Miralles</a> and <a href="/facts/Carme_Pin%25C3%25B3s/tHnQHjb4">Carme Pinós</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pirkkala/UkSJJIyh">Pirkkala</a> Church, Finland, designed by Käpy and <a href="/facts/Simo_Paavilainen/GA5KTtKV">Simo Paavilainen</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/St_John%2527s_College%2c_Oxford/P8Kc5mt8">Garden Quadrangle, St John's College, Oxford</a>, England, designed by <a href="/facts/MJP_Architects/Q2vAMsFA">MacCormac Jamieson Prichard</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>Hauer-King House, <a href="/facts/Canonbury/tpV7t2CL">Canonbury</a>, London, designed by <a href="/facts/Future_Systems/4H23HWyW">Future Systems</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Manggha/5XuX66aN">Manggha</a>, <a href="/facts/Krak%25C3%25B3w/hubj59IT">Kraków</a>, Poland, by <a href="/facts/Arata_Isozaki/403uty1J">Arata Isozaki</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/AIA_Gold_Medal/WBHeDAGH">AIA Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/Norman_Foster%2c_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank/G3StsbXt">Norman Foster</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Architecture_Firm_Award/KmIuHYcy">Architecture Firm Award</a> – <a href="/facts/Bohlin_Cywinski_Jackson/3cQo6rTV">Bohlin Cywinski Jackson</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/European_Union_Prize_for_Contemporary_Architecture/8jRmlRrw">European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture</a> (<a href="/facts/Mies_van_der_Rohe_Prize/8jRmlRrw">Mies van der Rohe Prize</a>) – <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Grimshaw_%2526_Partners/z7zS4pBo">Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners</a> for <a href="/facts/Waterloo_International_railway_station/nRyVqk1w">Waterloo International railway station</a>, London.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Praemium_Imperiale/AHmofYnr">Praemium Imperiale</a> Architecture Laureate – <a href="/facts/Charles_Correa/kuu6lvYc">Charles Correa</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pritzker_Prize/g7tzyDc2">Pritzker Prize</a> – <a href="/facts/Christian_de_Portzamparc/euqeFtB2">Christian de Portzamparc</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Prix_de_l%2527%25C3%2589querre_d%2527Argent/VvCpkuqH">Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent</a> – <a href="/facts/Henri_Gaudin/RkPxmArq">Henri and Bruno Gaudin</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Royal_Australian_Institute_of_Architects_Gold_Medal/wyxC5tKH">RAIA Gold Medal</a> – Neville Quarry.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">RIBA</a> <a href="/facts/Royal_Gold_Medal/xhPS9zJU">Royal Gold Medal</a> – <a href="/facts/Michael_Hopkins_(architect)/AMFueYyE">Michael</a> and <a href="/facts/Patricia_Hopkins/j6lplt9r">Patricia Hopkins</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Thomas_Jefferson_Medal_in_Architecture/fMfykP74">Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture</a> – <a href="/facts/Frank_O._Gehry/tSunALsf">Frank O. Gehry</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Twenty-five_Year_Award/2y9z2AoH">Twenty-five Year Award</a> – <a href="/facts/Haystack_Mountain_School_of_Crafts/wA5udtoa">Haystack Mountain School of Crafts</a></li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_14/CpNgqcq1">February 14</a> – <a href="/facts/Pietro_Belluschi/8HuWQISf">Pietro Belluschi</a>, Italian-born American architect (born <a href="/facts/1899_in_architecture/B4b8EAql">1899</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/August_11/wU6X1Ukc">August 11</a> – <a href="/facts/Gordon_Cullen/FVxyNl9p">Gordon Cullen</a>, English architect and urban designer associated with the "Townscape" movement (born <a href="/facts/1914_in_architecture/9P2VpBaL">1914</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/August_19/xAVwH4El">August 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Nancy_Lancaster/fBckNl7F">Nancy Lancaster</a>, American-born interior decorator associated with the <a href="/facts/English_country_house/vn35efjh">English country house</a> look (born <a href="/facts/1897_in_architecture/E8rU8dGV">1897</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_24/UqvFhsjm">October 24</a> – <a href="/facts/John_Lautner_(architect)/H9RB6Imn">John Lautner</a>, American architect (born <a href="/facts/1911_in_architecture/bmd3a6qw">1911</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/November_11/wUfLGUtc">November 11</a> – <a href="/facts/Stephen_Dykes_Bower/H51AymbS">Stephen Dykes Bower</a>, English ecclesiastical architect (born <a href="/facts/1903_in_architecture/WVzTpr5X">1903</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_10/XGs6d7Fl">December 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Henry_Bernard_(architect)/REMSTn07">Henry Bernard</a>, French architect, designer of the <a href="/facts/Palace_of_Europe/NGlaIPHw">Palace of Europe</a> (born <a href="/facts/1912_in_architecture/sBqGeWAY">1912</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Otten, Harvey (4 July 2012). "vh. het Maupoleum" (in Dutch). Andere Tijden Archi tectuur. Retrieved 6 September 2014. <a href="http://anderetijdenarchitectuur.com/2012/07/04/jodenbreestraat/" target="_blank">http://anderetijdenarchitectuur.com/2012/07/04/jodenbreestraat/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Mountain Pavilion in Bambajima, Toyama, Japan by Peter Salter". A weekly dose of architecture. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2018-08-21. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105725/http://archidose.org/wp/2004/10/04/mountain-pavilion" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20111001105725/http://archidose.org/wp/2004/10/04/mountain-pavilion</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Bradley, Simon (2023). Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East. The Buildings of England (New ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 282–3. ISBN 978-0-300-20929-7. <a href="978-0-300-20929-7" target="_blank">978-0-300-20929-7</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Library of Congress LCCN Permalink 73161799". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. <a href="https://archive.today/20120710185037/http://lccn.loc.gov/73161799" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20120710185037/http://lccn.loc.gov/73161799</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>