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The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events. Contents 1 Buildings 2 Events 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths Buildings Eureka Tower Southbank Melbourne January 16 - 10 Holloway Circus is completed in Birmingham England designed by Ian Simpson Architects. February 5 - Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 inaugurated designed by Antonio Lamela and Richard Rogers. March 1 - Senedd the National Assembly building in Cardiff Wales is completed by architect Richard Rogers. April 4 - Busch Stadium designed by Populous (formerly HOK sport) opened as the new home of the St. Louis Cardinals. May 4 - Hearst Tower employees move-in to the Norman Foster designed diagrid building near Columbus Circle in New York City. May 5 - Aurora Tower opened to the public as the tallest building in Brisbane Australia. May 23 - 7 World Trade Center officially opened the new building designed by SOM at noon with a free concert. May 26 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station) opening ceremony. Design from the winning competition entry by the Hamburg architecture firm Gerkan Marg and Partners. June 14 - Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts grand opening in Toronto Ontario Canada by Canadian Diamond and Schmitt Architects. June 16 - The National Library of Belarus opened in Minsk Belarus in the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. June 26 - Savill Building opens at the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park Surrey with a gridshell roof designed by Glen Howells Architects. July 22 - Emirates Stadium designed by Populous opened in the London Borough of Islington for the Arsenal Football Club. Summer - House of Sweden (the Swedish embassy) completed in Washington D.C. designed by Swedish architects Gert Wingrdh and Tomas Hansen. September - Museum of Modern Literature (Literaturmuseum der Moderne or LiMo) opened in Marbach Germany by British architect David Chipperfield. September 2 - Bishan Community Library opened in Singapore. October - Janelia Farm Research Campus completed in Loudoun County Virginia by Rafael Violy. October 5 - The Arsht Center opens in Downtown Miami Florida as the third largest performing arts center in the United States. October 9 - Beetham Tower in Manchester England is completed by architect Ian Simpson who resides in the top penthouse. October 26 - Klaus Advanced Computing Building officially opened on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology by American architects Perkins+Will. October 11 - Eureka Tower is a 300-metre (984 ft) skyscraper which opened in Melbourne Australia by Fender Katsalidis Architects. December - Megasport Arena completed in Moscow Russia. December 1 - Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse officially opened in Eugene Oregon designed by Morphosis. December 10 - Institute of Contemporary Art Boston completed designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. America's Cup Building inaugurated in Valencia Spain designed by British architect David Chipperfield. KUMU (KUnstiMUuseum) is completed in Tallinn Estonia by Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori. Events January 9 - Fire destroys Chicago's 1891 Pilgrim Baptist Church designed by Louis Sullivan. January 31 - Ground breaks on Waterview Tower and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago. March 15 - Cirrus apartment building topped off in Helsinki becoming the tallest building in Finland. April 10 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated greenway in New York City. April 27 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower a replacement for the World Trade Center. July 8 - The government of Abu Dhabi and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Awards AIA Gold Medal - Antoine Predock Architecture Firm Award - Moore Ruble Yudell Emporis Skyscraper Award - Hearst Tower Pritzker Prize - Paulo Mendes da Rocha (born 1928) from So Paulo Brasil Prix de l'querre d'Argent - Orlans-la-Source Science Library by Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet RAIA Gold Medal - Kerry Hill RIAS Award in Architecture - Page and Park for Maggie's Centre Inverness RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Toyo Ito Stirling Prize - Richard Rogers AIA Twenty-five Year Award - Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones Vincent Scully Prize - Phyllis Lambert Births Deaths April 25 - Jane Jacobs (born 1916) July 5 - Hugh Stubbins Jr.

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