1994 in architecture

The year 1994 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * The Maupoleum in Amsterdam is demolished.

Buildings opened

 * May 6 – The Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France is opened.
 * September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, designed by Renzo Piano, opens with its Terminal 1 as the longest building in the world.
 * date unknown – Channel 4 Building, home of the Channel 4 television company, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opened on Horseferry Road in Westminster, London.

Buildings completed

 * Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, China.
 * Shinjuku Park Tower, in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
 * Kamiichi Mountain Pavilion, Japan, designed by Peter Salter.
 * World Trade Center México, Mexico City, Mexico.
 * Qingdao TV Tower, Qingdao, China.
 * International Saddam Tower, Baghdad, Iraq.
 * Igualada Cemetery, Catalonia, designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.
 * Pirkkala Church, Finland, designed by Käpy and Simo Paavilainen.
 * Hauer-King House, Canonbury, London, designed by Future Systems.
 * Manggha, Kraków, Poland, by Arata Isozaki.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – Norman Foster.
 * Architecture Firm Award – Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
 * European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners for Waterloo International railway station, London.
 * Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Charles Correa.
 * Pritzker Prize – Christian de Portzamparc.
 * Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Henri Gaudin|Henri and Bruno Gaudin.
 * RAIA Gold Medal – Neville Quarry.
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Michael and Patricia Hopkins.
 * Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Frank O. Gehry.
 * Twenty-five Year Award – Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Deaths

 * February 14 – Pietro Belluschi, Italian-born American architect (born 1899)
 * August 11 – Gordon Cullen, English architect and urban designer associated with the "Townscape" movement (born 1914)
 * August 19 – Nancy Lancaster, American-born interior decorator associated with the English country house look (born 1897)
 * October 24 – John Lautner, American architect (born 1911)
 * November 11 – Stephen Dykes Bower, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1903)
 * December 10 – Henry Bernard, French architect, designer of the Palace of Europe (born 1912)