1996 in architecture

• June 30 – The historic Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, designed by architect Wayne McAllister, is demolished. • date unknown • The Stirling Prize is instituted in memory of James Stirling. The first winner is Stephen Hodder for the Centenary Building, University of Salford, Greater Manchester (opened in the same year). • Eden Project, Cornwall near St Austell is designed by Nicholas Grimshaw (completed 2001). • The Pringle Richards Sharratt partnership is established in London. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened • March 15 – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund. • May 26 – Hong Kong China Temple, Hong Kong (inaugurated). • October 3 – Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta. • November – Museum für Gegenwart (contemporary art museum) in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, converted by Josef Paul Kleihues. Buildings completed , Brazil in Prague, Czech Republic • Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. • Eco Building at Horniman Museum, London, designed by Architype. • Fruit Museum, Yamanashi, Japan, designed by Itsuko Hasegawa. • Aukrust Centre, Alvdal, Norway, designed by Sverre Fehn. • Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Denton Corker Marshall. • Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, designed by K. Y. Cheung Design Associates, the tallest building in Asia until it is surpassed the following year. • Therme Vals in Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor. • The Dancing House (Nationale-Nederlanden building) in Prague, designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry. • Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, a drop-in cancer care centre; building conversion by Richard Murphy. • Orphanage (first stage), Chhebetor, Nepal, designed by Hans Olav Hesseberg and Sixten Rahiff of Bergen School of Architecture. • 81 Mill Street, Osney, Oxford, England, a house designed for himself by Adrian James. ==Awards==

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Philip Johnson • Architecture Firm Award – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP • European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Dominique Perrault for Bibliothèque Nationale de France • Grand prix national de l'architecture – Bernard Tschumi • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Tadao Ando • Pritzker Prize – Rafael Moneo • Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Pierre-Louis Faloci • RAIA Gold Medal – Denton Corker Marshall • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Harry Seidler • Stirling Prize – Stephen Hodder for Centenary Building, University of Salford • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Jane Jacobs • Twenty-five Year Award – United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel • UIA Gold Medal – Rafael Moneo ==Deaths==

• February 14 – Alejandro de la Sota, Spanish architect (born 1913) • May 19 – Roy Mason, American lecturer, writer and futuristic architect (born 1938) • July 17 – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect (born 1900) • July 27 – Dame Jane Drew, English modernist architect and town planner (born 1911) • November 23 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect, designer of the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain (born 1912) ==References==