2020 in architecture

• November 16 – Work to dismantle the flanking walls of a pavilion erected by Tadao Ando at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre in England (2002) begins. ==Buildings and structures==

;Australia • Australia 108, the tallest building in Melbourne, completed. • Crown Sydney, the tallest building in Sydney, completed. ;Belgium • Alex guesthouse (private garden building), Berlare, designed by Atelier Vens Vanbelle, completed. ;Canada • Vancouver House, designed by Bjarke Ingels. ;Germany • Berlin Brandenburg Airport completed and opened on 31 October. ;Hong Kong • M+ museum scheduled for completion. ;Lebanon • Stone Garden (apartments), Beirut, designed by Lina Gotmeh, completed. ;Mexico • Torres Obispado in Monterrey, the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, completed. • 'OUM Wellness', built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, the first net-zero energy building (NZEB) in Latin America. ;Norway • Powerhouse Telemark, "energy positive" project in Porsgrunn designed by Snøhetta. ; Sweden • Norra Tornen, a pair of residential buildings in Stockholm designed by OMA, is completed ;Taiwan • Tainan Spring (adaptive reuse), Tainan, designed by MVRDV, completed. ;United Arab Emirates • The Opus, Dubai, including a boutique hotel with interiors designed by Zaha Hadid. • Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road (apartments), East London, designed by Henley Halebrown, completed. • Newfoundland Quay diagrid skyscraper rental apartments in London Docklands, designed by Horden Cherry Lee, projected for completion. • Town House, combining a library and dance studios, Kingston University London, designed by Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell), opened to students 6 January. • Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt), opened 5 March. • Falkirk Campus, Forth Valley College, Scotland, designed by Reiach & Hall, officially opened January. ==Awards==

• AIA Gold Medal – Marlon Blackwell (U.S.) • Architecture Firm Award AIA – Architecture Research Office • 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 – Postponed until October 2021 • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – • Pritzker Architecture Prize – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara • RAIA Gold Medal – John Wardle • RIAS Award for Architecture – cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Grafton Architects (Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell) • Stirling Prize – RIBA announced that the Stirling Prize awards had been postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – WEISS/MANFREDI • Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Eric Owen Moss Architects for Conjunctive Points – The New City ==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, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and architectural theorist ("mobile architecture") (born 1923) • March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect (born 1927) • March 26 – Michael Sorkin, 71, American architect (born 1948) • March 28 – Michael McKinnell, 84, American architect (born 1935) • April 4 – Bashirul Haq, 77, Bangladeshi architect (born 1942) • April 10 – Rifat Chadirji, 93, Iraqi architect (born 1926) • April 12 – Justus Dahinden, 94, Swiss architect, teacher and writer (born 1925) • August 4 – Jean-Marc Bonfils, 57, Lebanese architect (born 1963) • September 2 – Christian Liaigre, 77, French architect and interior designer (born 1943) • December 27 – Vikram Lall - Indian architect (Akshardham temple), (Birthdate not disclosed) • December 29 – Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect (born 1963) ==See also==