2008 in architecture

• February 10–11 – 2008 Namdaemun fire: The wooden superstructure of the 550-year-old Namdaemun gate in Seoul (South Korea) is destroyed by arson. • June 20 – The Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 comes into force in the UK. • July 8 – The first in Francesco da Mosto's television series ''Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage'' is broadcast. • October 2 – The William L. Slayton House, designed by I. M. Pei in 1958, is listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2008-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf • October – The inaugural World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona. ==Buildings and structures==

in Lolland, Denmark in Oslo, Norway Buildings opened • January 1 – China Central Television Headquarters building in Beijing, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens. • January 12 – New Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station officially inaugurated. • January – Fuglsang Art Museum in Lolland, Denmark, designed by Tony Fretton, inaugurated. • March 26 – Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport opens, designed by Foster + Partners. • March 27 – Heathrow Terminal 5, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opens. • April 12 – New National Opera House in Oslo opens. • April – Maggie's Centre in London, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens (Stirling Prize 2009). • June – Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened. • June 25 – Chords Bridge ("Bridge of Strings") in Jerusalem, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated. • June 28 – Beijing National Stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron (known as the "Bird's Nest"), opened for the 2008 Summer Olympics. • August 1 – Beijing South railway station, designed by Terry Farrell, opened. • September • A. P. Møller School, Schleswig, Germany, designed by C. F. Møller Architects. • Darwin Centre II, Natural History Museum, London, designed by C. F. Møller Architects. • September 11 – Ponte della Costituzione in Venice, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated. • September 24 – Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. • September 27 – California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, designed by Renzo Piano. • October 16 – Weill Hall, Cornell University, designed by Richard Meier • November – New Ahus, Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, opened. • November 11 – Curve (theatre) in Leicester, England, designed by Rafael Viñoly, is opened. • November 20 – Peter B. Lewis Library at Princeton University, by Frank Gehry, officially dedicated. • November 22 – Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, in Qatar, designed by I. M. Pei, is officially opened. • The Public, West Bromwich, England, designed by Will Alsop, opens first stages to public. Buildings completed in Valencia, Spain in Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany • January 28 – Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the "Water Cube", in readiness for the 2008 Summer Olympics. • August 28 – Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China, designed by William Pedersen. • November – Transformation AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) renovation by Frank Gehry. • December – Assut de l'Or Bridge in Valencia, Spain, designed by Santiago Calatrava. • date unknown • Remodelling of Lumen United Reformed Church in Bloomsbury, London, designed by Theis + Khan Architects. • Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels. • Linked Hybrid, a nine-tower high-rise housing project by Steven Holl Architects, in Beijing, China. • 459 West 18th Street, Manhattan, a high-rise condominium designed by Della Valle + Bernheimer. • Living Shangri-La in Vancouver, Canada • Torre Caja Madrid (Caja Madrid Tower), Spain, designed by Foster and Partners. • First Kranhaus in Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany, designed by Alfons Linster and Hadi Teherani of BRT Architekten. • Westside shopping and leisure complex, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Daniel Libeskind. • Olnik Spanu House, Garrison, New York, United States, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. • Library and Learning Center of the University of Vienna, by Zaha Hadid • Moliner House, Zaragoza, Spain, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza. • The Grey House, Highgate, London. Designed by Eldridge Smerin. ==Awards==

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Richard Meier • AIA Gold Medal – Renzo Piano (Italy) • Architecture Firm Award – KieranTimberlake Associates • Driehaus Architecture Prize – Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk • Emporis Skyscraper Award – Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo • Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – David Mangin • Lawrence Israel Prize – AvroKO • LEAF Award, Grand Prix – schmidt hammer lassen for Performers House • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Peter Zumthor • Pritzker Prize – Jean Nouvel • Rome Prize for architecture – Frederick B. Fisher • RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Johnson • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edward Cullinan • Stirling Prize – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington for Accordia housing development, Cambridge • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Gro Harlem Brundtland • Twenty-five Year Award – The Atheneum • UIA Gold Medal – Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon • Vincent Scully Prize – Robert A. M. Stern ==Births==

• January 1 – Harald Deilmann, German architect (born 1920) • January 30 – Fernando Higueras, Spanish architect (born 1930) • February 9 – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (born 1932) • March 5 – Nader Khalili, Iranian architect, writer, and humanitarian (born 1936) • March 24 – Victor Christ-Janer, American modernist architect (born 1915) • March 29 – Ralph Rapson, American architect (born 1914) • March 31 – David Todd, American architect (born 1915) • May 30 – Rodney Gordon, English architect (born 1933) • June 15 – Walter Netsch, American architect (born 1920) • July 6 – George Tibbits, Australian composer and architect (born 1933) • September 18 – Abdur Rahman Hye, Pakistani architect (born 1919) • November 14 – Sir Bernard Feilden, English conservation architect (born 1919) • November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (born 1918) ==See also==