2020 in architecture

Buildings and structures

• Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, projected for completion.
• Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, projected for completion.

• Alex guesthouse, Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed.

• Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels.

• Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, designed by Ma Yansong.
• 1000 Trees, designed by Thomas Heatherwick in Shanghai.
• "Crystal" skyway at Raffles City Chongqing, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened to public June.

• Berlin Brandenburg Airport scheduled for opening 31 October.

• M+ museum scheduled for completion.

•  Thamrin Nine in Jakarta, the tallest building in Indonesia, projected for completion.

• Bridge by Renzo Piano, over the Polcevera River in Genoa, replacing the Ponte Morandi which collapsed in 2018, completed and expected to open to traffic in July.

• Stone Garden, Beirut, designed by Lina Gotmeh, completed.

• 'OUM Wellness', built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the first net-zero energy building in Latin America.

• Powerhouse Telemark, "energy positive" project in Porsgrunn designed by Snøhetta.

• Varso in Warsaw, the tallest building in Warsaw and Poland and in the European Union, projected for completion.

• Tainan Spring, Tainan, designed by MVRDV, completed.

• The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid.
• Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

• Newfoundland Quay diagrid skyscraper rental apartments in London Docklands, designed by Horden Cherry Lee, projected for completion.

• Central Park Tower in New York City, the second tallest skyscraper in the United States and the tallest residential building in the world projected for completion.
• 111 West 57th Street in New York City, supertall residential building, the thinnest skyscraper in the world, projected for completion.
• The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by Renzo Piano in Los Angeles, is set to open on December 20.

  Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell
• Architecture Firm Award AIA –
• Emporis Skyscraper Award –
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Ong-ard Satrabhandhu
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme –
• Grand Prix national de l'architecture –
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner –
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate –
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent –
• RAIA Gold Medal –
• RIAS Award for Architecture –
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects
• Stirling Prize –
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –
• UIA Gold Medal –
• Twenty-five Year Award AIA –
• Vincent Scully Prize –

  Exhibitions

• 20 February until 14 August – Rem Koolhaas and AMO: "Countryside; the Future" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

  Deaths

• February 21 – Yona Friedman, Hungarian born French architect and architectural theorist
• March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect
• March 26 – Michael Sorkin, American architect
• March 28 – Michael McKinnell, 84, American architect
• April 4 – Bashirul Haq, 77, Bangladeshi architect
• April 10 – Rifat Chadirji, 93, Iraqi architect
• April 12 – Justus Dahinden, 94, Swiss architect, teacher and writer