Overview of the events of 2010 in architecture
The year 2010 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures [ edit ]
Burj Khalifa
The Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore
4 January – Burj Khalifa (originally known as Burj Dubai) opens in the United Arab Emirates as the tallest man-made structure in the world (2010–present), at 828 m (2,717 ft).
6 February – New building of Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, Florida , designed by Stanley Saitowitz , opens to the public.
27 April – Marina Bay Sands resort, Singapore , designed by Moshe Safdie , has a soft opening.
12 May – Centre Pompidou-Metz , designed by Shigeru Ban , is inaugurated.
May – Central Saint Giles designed by Renzo Piano , completed in Central London .
May – MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome , designed by Zaha Hadid , opens to the public. It wins this year's Stirling Prize .[ 3]
June – Strata SE1 , residential apartments with integral wind turbines, designed by BFLS, completed in the London Borough of Southwark .
September – Evelyn Grace Academy , a London school designed by Zaha Hadid , opens. It wins the 2011 Stirling Prize .[ 4]
October – Maggie's , a drop-in cancer care centre in Cheltenham , England, designed by Sir Richard MacCormac's MJP Architects , opens.
28 October – Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center at Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, New York , designed by Baird Sampson Neuert of Toronto, dedicated.[ 5]
10 November – Sagrada Família in Barcelona , designed by Antoni Gaudí (d. 1926 ), is dedicated as a basilica and expiatory church following completion of the vault.
12 November – Canton Tower opens for the 2010 Asian Games .
December – Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University , designed by Stanton Williams , completed. It wins the 2012 Stirling Prize.[ 6]
Guangzhou International Finance Center in China , by Wilkinson Eyre Architects ; it later wins the 2012 Lubetkin Prize .
International Commerce Centre opens as the tallest building in Hong Kong.
Centennial Place (Calgary) in Calgary , Alberta .
Kaufhaus Tyrol department store in Innsbruck , designed by David Chipperfield with Dieter Mathoi , opens.
Dybkær Church, Silkeborg , Denmark, designed by Regnbuen Arkitekter.
More than 70 exposition pavilions are completed for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China .