1986 in architecture

• March 15 – Hotel New World disaster: The six-story Lian Yak Building (1971) in Singapore, housing the Hotel New World, collapses in less than a minute due to structural failure, perhaps caused by a gas explosion, trapping 50 people and killing 33.
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• Construction work begins on Park Pobedy station in the Moscow Metro.{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.ru/map/1989/metro.ru-1989map-big3.gif |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-11-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003020857/http://www.metro.ru/map/1989/metro.ru-1989map-big3.gif |archivedate=2008-10-03 }}
• schmidt hammer lassen architects founded in Aarhus, Denmark.

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• January 17 – The Buenos Aires Argentina Temple is dedicated by Thomas S. Monson.
• May 11 – The Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, in Barranquilla, Colombia.
• July 29 – Glasgow Sheriff Court Building in Glasgow, Scotland, formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• September 14 – Museum Ludwig and Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne, Germany, designed by Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer.{{cite web|title=20th Anniversary of the Kölner Philharmonie|url=http://www.philharmonie-jubilaeum.de/de/home.php|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504033017/http://www.philharmonie-jubilaeum.de/en/home.php|archivedate=2010-05-04|year=2007|website=Philharmonie Jubiläum|language=English|accessdate=2019-09-21}}
• October 23 – The Beirut Memorial in Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA, is dedicated.[http://www.lejeune.usmc.mil/visitors/beirut_memorial Memorial description, Camp Lejeune website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140206201122/http://www.lejeune.usmc.mil/visitors/beirut_memorial |date=February 6, 2014 }}, retrieved December 15, 2011.
• October 26 – The nave of Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland, is consecrated.{{cite AV media|year=1997|title=Organ Fireworks VII – Christopher Herrick at the organ of the Hallgrimskirkja|medium=CD|publisher=Hyperion}}
• November 18 – The Lloyd's Building in the City of London, UK
• December 24 – The Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India, designed by Fariborz Sahba.[http://www.uga.edu/bahai/india.html Bahá'í Houses of Worship, India] The Lotus of Bahapur. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507195820/http://bahai.uga.edu/india.html |date=2016-05-07 }}

• Museum Tower in Miami, Florida, United States.
• Rialto Towers in Melbourne, Australia.
• Temasek Tower in Singapore.
• The AXA Center in New York City, United States.
• The Dakin Building in Brisbane, California, United States.
• The Robot Building in Bangkok, Thailand.
• Nabemba Tower, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pcXqAAAAMAAJ&q=nabemba+tower+1990 Africa Economic Digest, volume 11, issues 1–12] (1990), page 9.
• The Fernmeldeturm Münster in Münster, Germany.
• The Tortoise Mountain TV Tower in Wuhan, China.
• The Town Pavilion in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
• Zendstation Roosendaal in Roosendaal, Netherlands.
• The Lipstick Building in New York City, United States.
• 1221 Brickell Building in Miami, Florida, United States.
• 701 Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida, United States.
• Henbury Hall, Cheshire, England, designed by Julian Bicknell after Palladio as depicted by Felix Kelly.
• Y Pencadlys (County Hall), headquarters of Gwynedd County Council in Caernarfon, Wales, designed by Dewi-Prys Thomas (died 1985) and executed by Council architects Merfyn Roberts and Terry Potter.{{cite web|url=http://www.dewi-prysthomas.org/biog-en.html|title=Biography|publisher=The Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust|accessdate=2017-09-14}}
• Russian State Scientific Center of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, Saint Petersburg, designed by B. I. Artiushin and S. V. Savin.
• Te Rata Bridge, King Country, New Zealand (collapses 1994).{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4505706a11.html|title=Berrymans win court battle|accessdate=2008-09-19|author1=Mulrooney, Paul|author2=Chalmers, Anna|author3=Burns, Kelly|date=2008-05-02|work=The Dominion Post|location=Wellington|publisher=stuff.co.nz}}

• Aga Khan Prize – Rifat Chadirji.
• AIA Gold Medal – Arthur Charles Erickson.
• Architecture Firm Award – Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis.
• Grand prix national de l'architecture – Adrien Fainsilber.
• Pritzker Prize – Gottfried Boehm.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Adrien Fainsilber.
• RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Butterworth.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Arata Isozaki.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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• February 6 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (born 1912)
• February 21 – Mart Stam, Dutch architect (born 1899)
• May – Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli-American architect (born 1907)
• Werner Schindler, Swiss architect (born 1905)

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