2018 in architecture

The year 2018 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

 * January 9 – The Church of St. Lambertus, Immerath, Germany, is demolished.
 * June 15 – The second major fire in four years breaks out at Glasgow School of Art.
 * August 14 – The Ponte Morandi, a road viaduct in Genoa, collapses, resulting in 43 deaths and numerous injuries.

Buildings and structures

 * China
 * Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.
 * Goldin Finance 117, Tianjin, the third tallest building in China, designed by P & T Group and ECADI, projected for completion.


 * Denmark
 * Fjordenhus, Kirk Kapital headquarters, on Vejle Fjord, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, completed.


 * Finland
 * Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, opened December 5.


 * France
 * Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux officially opened April 24.
 * Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes


 * Hong Kong
 * Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23.


 * Ireland
 * Pálás cinema, Galway, designed by Tom de Paor, opened February 23.


 * Malaysia
 * Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, the third tallest building in Malaysia, projected for completion.


 * Norway
 * Ureddplassen public toilet, designed by Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter + Landskapsfabrikken, opened.


 * Russia
 * Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge opened May 16.
 * Lakhta Center, in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe, commissioning begins June 27.


 * Spain
 * Mac House (Casa Mac), Novelda, designed by La Errería.


 * Sweden
 * Norra Tornen (Northern Towers) eastern residential tower, Stockholm, designed by OMA, completed.


 * Taiwan
 * Weiwuying (National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts), Kaohsiung, designed by Mecanoo, opened October 13.


 * Turkey
 * Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık, opened October 10.
 * Istanbul Airport with the future world’s largest terminal, officially opened October 29.


 * Ukraine
 * Chernobyl New Safe Confinement completed.


 * United Kingdom
 * Broomlands Primary School in Kelso, Scottish Borders, designed by Stallan-Brand, opened January 9.
 * Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery for the University of Cambridge at Eddington, designed by Stuart McKnight of MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), completed c. March.
 * Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford Department of Physics, designed by Hawkins\Brown, officially opened September 17.
 * The Hubert Perrodo Building at St Peter's College, Oxford, by Design Engine Architects, officially opened March 13.
 * Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) and Max Fordham, opened to public June 11.
 * V&A Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, designed by Kengo Kuma, opened September 15.
 * Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross Central in London, conversion of industrial premises to retail development by Thomas Heatherwick, opened October 26.
 * Gloucester Bus Station, designed by Building Design Partnership, opened October 26–28.
 * The Macallan distillery, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, new building opened.
 * Nevill Holt Opera within 17th century stable block, designed by Witherford Watson Mann, opened June 14.
 * Mapleton Crescent, Wandsworth (high-rise prefabricated apartments), designed by Metropolitan Workshop.
 * Wittering House, Finsbury Park, home for self by Charles Bettes of GPad London, completed.
 * House in the Garden, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford, completed.


 * United States
 * Amazon Spheres in Seattle, designed by NBBJ, opened January 30.
 * Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, Virginia designed by Steven Holl opened April 21.
 * Stir restaurant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (architectural interior) designed by Frank Gehry opened October 12.
 * 3 World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opened June 11.


 * Vietnam
 * Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City the tallest building in Vietnam and the tallest completed building in Southeast Asia, is completed.

Exhibitions

 * 26 May until 25 November - The 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy
 * 15 July until 13 January 2019 - "Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980" at MOMA in New York City.

Awards

 * AIA Gold Medal – James Stewart Polshek
 * Architecture Firm Award AIA – Snow Kreilich Architects
 * Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Marc Breitman & Nada Breitman-Jakov
 * Emporis Skyscraper Award – MGM Cotai
 * Lawrence Israel Prize - Annabelle Selldorf
 * Pritzker Architecture Prize – Balkrishna Doshi
 * RAIA Gold Medal – Alexander Tzannes
 * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Neave Brown
 * Stirling Prize – Foster and Partners for Bloomberg London
 * Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Sir David Adjaye
 * Vincent Scully Prize – Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell

Deaths

 * January 7 – Aydın Boysan, 96, Turkish architect
 * January 9 – Neave Brown, 88, American-born British architect
 * January 17 – Ted McCoy, 92, New Zealand architect
 * February 18 – Ivor Smith, 93, English architect
 * February 19 – Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian
 * February 20 – Lionel March, 84, British architect and mathematician
 * February 22 – Serban Cantacuzino, 90, French-born Romanian-British architect
 * April 26 – David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect
 * May 12 – Will Alsop, 70, British architect
 * May 18 – Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and architecture critic (From Bauhaus to Our House)
 * May 28 – Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese born Taiwanese architect
 * August 19 – Rafael Calventi, 92, Dominican architect and diplomat
 * August 26 – Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect
 * September 13 – Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect
 * September 18 – Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas
 * October 11 – Paul Andreu, 80, French architect (Osaka Maritime Museum)
 * November 24 – Gene Leedy, 90, American architect
 * December 27 – Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke)