2022 in architecture
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The year 2022 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
- 1 March - Russian shelling of Freedom Square in Kharkiv severely damages the Regional State Administration Building and more heritage listed buildings.[1]
- 16 March - Shelling in Mariupol destroys Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre.[2]
- 8 October - Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge collapsed due to explosion.[3]
Buildings and structures
- India
- The Statue of Belief (Vishwas Swaroopam), depicting Shiva opens on 29 October in Rajasthan.
- Spain
- Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated on 28 May.
- Taiwan
- Taipei Performing Arts Center, designed by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten at Office for Metropolitan Architecture, opens officially on 7 August.[4]
- Turkey
- 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is completed.
- United Arab Emirates
- The Museum of the Future designed by Killa Design architecture studio and engineered by Buro Happold opened to public on 22 February in Dubai.[5]
- United States
- The Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University Bloomington is completed based largely on a 1952 design by Mies van der Rohe.[6]
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
- Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Rob Krier
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Diébédo Francis Kéré
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – B. V. Doshi
- RAIA Gold Medal – Sean Godsell
- Stirling Prize – The New Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge[7]
- Upcoming
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – (announced end April)
- Aga Khan Award for Architecture – (announced autumn)