2010 in architecture

• 12 May – Stephen T. Ayers becomes the 11th Architect of the Capitol.{{cite web|url=http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/press-room/Stephen-Ayers-confirmed-by-Senate.cfm |title=Stephen T. Ayers Confirmed by United States Senate to Serve as 11th Architect of the Capitol |access-date=2013-08-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315130836/http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/press-room/Stephen-Ayers-confirmed-by-Senate.cfm |archive-date=15 March 2012 }}
• June – Broadcasting Tower, Leeds, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building in the World award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.{{ cite web |title=CTBUH 9th Annual Awards, 2010 |publisher=Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat |url=http://www.ctbuh.org/Events/Awards/2010Awards/tabid/1571/language/en-GB/Default.aspx |access-date=2007-06-15}}
• November – The third World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.

{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2010}}

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• 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/06/maxxi-rome-zaha-hadid|first=Rowan|last=Moore|title=Zaha Hadid's new Roman gallery joins the pantheon of the greats |work=The Observer|date=6 June 2010|access-date=21 December 2011}}
• 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.{{cite news|first=Ellis|last=Woodman |title=Stirling Prize: Zaha Hadid is a worthy winner|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/8802248/Stirling-Prize-Zaha-Hadid-is-a-worthy-winner.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 October 2011|access-date=20 December 2011}}
• 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.{{cite news|title=Plantations dedicates new ultra-green welcome center|url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/10/plantations-dedicates-new-welcome-center|access-date=1 July 2018|publisher=Cornell University|date=29 October 2010}}
• 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.{{cite web|last=Youngs|first=Ian|title=Sainsbury Laboratory wins Stirling architecture prize|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19923820|work=BBC News|date=14 October 2012|access-date=14 October 2012}}
• Guangzhou International Finance Center in China, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects; it later wins the 2012 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130619015322/http://www.architecture.com/Awards/LubetkinPrize/LubetkinPrize.aspx 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.

• AIA Gold Medal – Peter Q. Bohlin (United States).
• Architecture Firm Award – Pugh + Scarpa
• Carbuncle Cup – Strata SE1
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Rafael Manzano Martos
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Laurent Théry
• Lawrence Israel Prize – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Boogertman + Partners + Populous
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Toyo Ito
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA)
• RAIA Gold Medal – Kerry Clare and Lindsay Clare
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – I. M. Pei
• Stirling Prize – Zaha Hadid for MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy{{cite news |first=Edwin |last=Heathcote |title=Hadid finally wins Stirling Prize |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962728c2-cec0-11df-9be2-00144feab49a.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/962728c2-cec0-11df-9be2-00144feab49a.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |work=Financial Times |date=3 October 2010 |access-date=18 October 2024}}
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Edward O. Wilson
• Vincent Scully Prize – Adele Chatfield-Taylor
• Twenty-five Year Award – The Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport

• 25 February – Frank Williams, 73, US skyscraper architect (b. 1936){{cite news|author=Dennis Hevesi|title=Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2010-03-08|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/arts/design/09williams.html?partner=rss&emc=rss}}
• 4 March – Raimund Abraham, 77, Austrian architect (b. 1933){{cite web|title=Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/arts/design/06abraham.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=12 March 2017}}
• 14 March – Der Scutt, 75, American architect (b. 1934)
• 13 September – John Elliott, 73, British architect (b. 1936){{Cite news|url=http://www.rebec.rs/speakers.php?lang=en&Y=2010|title=Confirmed Speakers/John Elliott|work=REBEC|date=21–23 June 2010}}

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