1988 in architecture

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The year 1988 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings opened

Parliament House Canberra

• March 13 - Seikan Tunnel beneath the Tsugaru Strait in Japan
• May 9 - Parliament House, Canberra, Australia.
• September 25 - Aalto Theatre, Essen, Germany.
• October 10 - Cairo Opera House, Egypt.
• November 2 - Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Dili, Indonesia.^[1]
• December - Torre Picasso, in Madrid, Spain, by Minoru Yamasaki.^[2]
• date unknown - National Union of Mineworkers headquarters, Sheffield, England^[3]

Buildings completed

• March 11 - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque, Selangor, Malaysia.^[4]
• July - BankWest Tower in Perth, Western Australia.^[5]
• Scotia Plaza in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
• Pitampura TV Tower in New Delhi, India.
• Washington Mutual Tower in Seattle, Washington.
• Central Plaza 1, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• One Kansas City Place, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
• Bellevue Place, Hong Kong, designed by Rocco Design Architects.
• Richmond Riverside development in London, England, designed by Quinlan Terry.^[6]
• Storm water pumping station on the Isle of Dogs in London Docklands, designed by John Outram Associates.^[6]

Awards

• Alvar Aalto Medal – Alvaro Siza
• Architecture Firm Award - Hartman-Cox Architects
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Alvaro Siza for Banco Borges e Irmão, Vila do Conde
• Pritzker Prize - Oscar Niemeyer and Gordon Bunshaft
• RAIA Gold Medal - Romaldo Giurgola
• Royal Gold Medal - Richard Meier
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Romaldo Giurgola.
• Twenty-five Year Award - Washington Dulles International Airport Terminal Building

Deaths

• March 12 - Bernard Rudofsky, Moravian-born American writer, architect, collector, teacher, designer, and social historian (born 1905)
• August 21 - Ray Eames, American architect and designer, partner of Charles Eames (born 1912)
• November 22 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (born 1902)

References

1. UCANews November 9, 1988
2. "History". Torre Picasso. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
3. "Sheffield casino plan approved for ex-NUM headquarters". BBC. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
4. "Tourism Malaysia-Selangor destinations-Blue Mosque". Government website-Tourism Malaysia. 2011. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
5. MacDonald, Rob (1988-07-08). "214m tower is all set to open for business". Daily News (Perth). p. 14.
6. Hardingham, Samantha (1996). London: a guide to recent architecture (3rd ed.). London: Ellipsis. ISBN 1-899858-08-3.