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Factory International (Aviva Studios) arts venue in Manchester, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; lead architect Ellen van Loon) opened officially on 18 October (previews from June)⁸

United States

Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York, projected for completion⁹
The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City designed by Studio Gang opened to the public on May 4¹⁰ ¹¹
Vici Properties finishes construction of the sphere, the largest sphere in the world in Las Vegas, Nevada¹²

Awards

AIA Gold Medal – Carol Ross Barney
Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ben Pentreath
Pritzker Architecture Prize – David Chipperfield ¹³
RIBA Royal Gold Medal –
RIBA House of the Year – Green House, Tottenham, London, designed by Hayhurst & Co¹⁴
Stirling Prize – Mæ for John Morden Centre, Blackheath, London¹⁵

Exhibitions

Venice Biennale of Architecture: 20 May – 26 November
Copenhagen Architecture Festival x FILM: 1 – 11 June

Deaths

January 1 – Ron Labinski, 85, American stadium architect (b. 1937)¹⁶
January 6 – William S.W. Lim, 90, Singaporean architect (b. 1932)
January 12 – Vittorio Garatti, 95, Italian architect (b. 1927)
January 24 – Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, 95, Indian architect, Pritzker Prize winner (2018) (b. 1927)
January 31 – Graham Winteringham, 99, English architect (Crescent Theatre) (b. 1923) (death announced on this date)
February 13 – Robert Geddes, 99, American architect, dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture (1965–1982) (b. 1923)
February 17 – Peter Muller, 95, Australian architect (b. 1927)
March 2 – Rafael Viñoly, 78, Uruguayan-born architect (b. 1944)
May 30 – Paolo Portoghesi, 91, Italian architect (Mosque of Rome) (b. 1931)
June 17 – Sir Michael Hopkins, 88, English architect (Portcullis House) (b. 1935)
July 17 – Bruno Flierl, 96, German architect (b. 1927)
August 7 – Jean-Louis Cohen, French architect and architectural historian (b. 1949)
August 13 – Thierry Despont, 75, French architect and interior designer (b. 1948)
September 12 – Roser Amadó, 79, Spanish architect (La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou) (b. 1944)
September 15 – Claude Cormier, 63, Canadian landscape architect (b. 1960)
October 1 – Beverly Willis, American architect (San Francisco Ballet Building) (b. 1928)
October 3 – Harriet Pattison, American landscape architect (b. 1928)
October 17 – George Baird, 84, Canadian architect (Cloud Gardens, Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory) (b. 1939)
October 21 – N. John Habraken, 94, Dutch architect, educator, and theorist of user participation in housing (b. 1928)
November 20 - Rob Krier, 85, Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, and urban designer (b. 1938)

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