2012 in architecture

• April 30 – 1 WTC surpasses the height of the Empire State Building to become the tallest building in New York City.{{cite news|date=April 30, 2012|title=It's official: 1 WTC is New York's new tallest building|work=Daily News|location=New York|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/official-1-wtc-york-tallest-building-article-1.1069925?localLinksEnabled=false|url-status=dead|access-date=April 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503023258/http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/official-1-wtc-york-tallest-building-article-1.1069925?localLinksEnabled=false|archive-date=May 3, 2012}}
• July – Mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu (Mali) are deliberately attacked by rebels, a war crime for which Ahmad al-Mahdi in 2016 pleads guilty before the International Criminal Court.
• July 20 – A fire at the newly-opened Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, leads to its closure for more than a year.{{cite news|title=Opening of the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan|url=http://www.baku-magazine.com/blogs/opening-heydar-aliyev-centre-baku-azerbaijan-2/|access-date=29 November 2015|work=Baku Magazine|publisher=Condé Nast International|date=21 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135109/http://www.baku-magazine.com/blogs/opening-heydar-aliyev-centre-baku-azerbaijan-2/|archive-date=2015-12-08|url-status=dead}}
• October
• The fifth World Architecture Festival is held in Singapore.
• Second hurricane survival of 1 WTC.
• It is announced that the Opera House, Wellington, is below 34% of the earthquake code and may have to close for strengthening work to be carried out.{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/7800357/Opera-House-may-close|title=Opera House may close|author=Jackman, Amy|work=The Wellingtonian}}
• November – The Japanese government announces plans for a new National Olympic Stadium (Tokyo) for the 2020 Summer Olympics based on a design by Zaha Hadid;{{cite web|title=New National Stadium – Tokyo, Japan|url=http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/new-national-stadium/|work=Zaha Hadid Architects|access-date=July 18, 2015}} these will be abandoned in 2015.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-orders-full-review-2020-olympic-stadium-070207621--spt.html|title=Japan rips up 2020 Olympic stadium plans to start anew|last1=Himmer|first1=Alastair|date=July 17, 2015|website=news.yahoo.com|publisher=AFP|access-date=July 17, 2015}}
• December 11 – 1 WTC's spire comes to New York City.
• Assemble (collective) begins working in Granby Four Streets, Liverpool.

{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2012}}

File:SeaCity Museum.jpg in Southampton, England]]

File:隅田公園右岸からスカイツリーと桜.jpg in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan]]

File:The Shard at sunset (Unsplash).jpg in London, England]]

File:London Aquatics Centre - Olympic Park.jpg in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, England]]

File:Suvarna Vidhana Soudha.jpg in Belgaum, India]]

File:Statoil fornebu IMG 4600.JPG headquarters building in Fornebu, Norway]]

• January
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum extension in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.{{cite journal|first=Dale|last=Kneen|title=Starchitects In Our Eyes|journal=High Life|publisher=British Airways|date=Summer 2012|pages=16–17}}
• JW Marriott Marquis Dubai, the tallest hotel in the world, in Dubai.
• January 1 – Ada Bridge, one of the tallest bridges in Europe, in Belgrade, Serbia.
• January 5 – Baluarte Bridge, the longest cable-stayed bridge in Latin America.
• February – Extension to Städel art gallery in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by schneider+schumacher.{{cite web|title=Die Erweiterung des Städel Museums|url=http://www.staedelmuseum.de/sm/index.php?StoryID=1206&websiteLang=de|publisher=Städel Museum|access-date=October 14, 2012}}
• January 6 – Porta Macedonia, Skopje, designed by sculptor Valentina Stefanovska.
• February 28 – Halley VI Research Station, designed by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects, becomes operational in the Antarctic.
• March – Jerwood Gallery on The Stade in Hastings, England, designed by Hana Loftus and Tom Grieve of HAT Projects.{{cite web|url=http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/about/the-gallery|title=The Gallery|publisher=Jerwood Gallery|access-date=March 12, 2012}}{{cite news|first=Rowan|last=Moore|title=A happy end to the battle of Hastings|newspaper=The Observer|location=London|date=March 11, 2012|page=28 (The New Review)}}
• March 18 – Bharati (research station) in Antarctica.
• March 19 – Western concourse, London King's Cross railway station, designed by John McAslan + Partners.{{cite web|first=Amy|last=Frearson|title=Western Concourse at King's Cross by John McAslan + Partners|work=Dezeen|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2012/03/14/western-concourse-at-kings-cross-by-john-mcaslan-partners/|date=March 14, 2012|access-date=April 13, 2012}}
• March 24 – Maria Skłodowska-Curie Bridge, Warsaw, the eighth road bridge in the capital of Poland.
• March 29 – Refurbished Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney with new Mordant Wing, designed by Sam Marshall.{{cite news|first=Ginanne|last=Brownell|date=March 20, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/21iht-rartsydney21.html|access-date=October 14, 2012|title=A Makeover for Contemporary Art in Sydney|newspaper=The New York Times}}
• March 31 – Sandworm by Marco Casagrande, in the Beaufort04 Triennial of Contemporary art in Wenduine, Belgium. The work is both architecture and environmental art.{{cite web|title=Marco Casagrande Sandworm|url=http://www.beaufort04.be/en/artistiek/31/marco-casagrande-.html|work=Beaufort04|date=January 25, 2013|access-date=January 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227190403/http://www.beaufort04.be/en/artistiek/31/marco-casagrande-.html|archive-date=December 27, 2012|url-status=dead}}
• April 4 – Twin Sails Bridge, Poole, England, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
• April 10 – SeaCity Museum, Southampton, England, with extension by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.{{cite web|title=SeaCity Museum by Wilkinson Eyre Architects|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2012/04/21/seacity-museum-by-wilkinson-eyre-architects/|work=de zeen|date=April 21, 2012}}
• April 20
• Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, Tokyo, designed by Kengo Kuma.{{Cite web |title=Cultural complex |url=https://www.g-mark.org/gallery/winners/9d8db373-803d-11ed-862b-0242ac130002 |access-date=January 2, 2024 |website=Good Design Award |language=ja}}
• Belfast MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre) in Northern Ireland, by Hackett Hall McKnight.{{cite news|title=Belfast's new arts venue the MAC prepares to open|work=BBC News|date=April 19, 2012|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17770503|access-date=October 27, 2014}}
• May 10 – Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by Zaha Hadid.
• May 11 – ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower and sculpture in Olympic Park, London, designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond and Ushida Findlay Architects.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/06/olympics-orbit-anish-kapoor?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|first=Tim|last=Adams|title=Anish Kapoor's Orbit tower: the mother of all helter-skelters|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=May 5, 2012|access-date=December 3, 2013}}
• May 22 – Tokyo Skytree in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.{{cite web |url=http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/22/11809861-tokyo-sky-tree-takes-root-as-worlds-second-tallest-structure?chromedomain=itineraries |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525134229/http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/22/11809861-tokyo-sky-tree-takes-root-as-worlds-second-tallest-structure?chromedomain=itineraries |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 May 2012 |title=Tokyo Sky Tree takes root as world's second-tallest structure |author=Arata Yamamoto |date=22 May 2012 |work=NBC News |access-date=22 May 2012 }}
• June 29 – Cloud Forest and Flower Dome Bay South Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (landscape design by Grant Associates).{{citation|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/05/movie-wilkinson-eyre-architects/|title=Wilkinson Eyre Architects on winning World Building of the Year|work=De Zeen|date=October 5, 2012|access-date=May 1, 2013}}
• July 3 – Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre in Northern Ireland designed by Heneghan Peng for the National Trust.{{citation|title=Heneghan Peng's Giant's Causeway scheme finally opens doors|date=July 4, 2012|access-date=July 19, 2013|first=Richard|last=Waite|work=Architects' Journal|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/heneghan-pengs-giants-causeway-scheme-finally-opens-doors/5215711.article}}
• July 5 – The Shard, designed by Renzo Piano, the tallest building in the European Union at the time.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shard-owners-shatter-abseiling-ambition-of-hague-snr-7782687.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shard-owners-shatter-abseiling-ambition-of-hague-snr-7782687.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Shard owners shatter abseiling ambition of Hague Snr |work=The Independent |date=24 May 2012 |access-date=8 June 2012}}{{cbignore}}
• July 18 – Tate Modern, London, opens The Tanks performance art/installation space, refurbished by Herzog & de Meuron.{{cite web|title=Tate Modern's giant tanks swap oil for performance art|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18862201|work=BBC News|date=July 17, 2012|access-date=July 17, 2012}}
• July 27 – Opening of 2012 Summer Olympics based at Olympic Park, London, England, with site design by the EDAW Consortium (including EDAW and Buro Happold), working with Arup and WS Atkins; taken over by LDA Design in conjunction with Hargreaves Associates. Individual buildings include
• Olympic Stadium, designed by Populous{{cite news|first=Rowan|last=Moore|title=Architecture|newspaper=The Observer|location=London|date=December 11, 2011|page=21 (The New Review)}}
• London Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid
• London Velopark, designed by Hopkins Architects, Expedition Engineering, BDSP, and Grant Associates
• ArcelorMittal Orbit tower, designed by Anish Kapoor (see above)
• August 3 – Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane, Australia.
• September 21 – Islamic art gallery at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, designed by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti.{{cite news|first=Gareth|last=Harris|date=September 13, 2012|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ad9c2ff2-f5bf-11e1-bf76-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26xYVPBmB|title=Islamic art, covered|newspaper=Financial Times|access-date=October 11, 2012}}
• September 23 – Renovation and new wing for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architekten.{{cite web|url=http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/news-items/stedelijk-museum-opens-september-23rd|title=Stedelijk Museum Opens September 23rd|publisher=Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam|date=September 23, 2012|access-date=October 14, 2012}}
• October 11 – Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belgaum, India, built by B.G. Shirke Construction Technology Pvt. Ltd.
• October 17 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City, designed by Louis Kahn.
• October 24 – Boekenberg ("Book mountain") public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by MVRDV.
• December 3 – United States Courthouse, Austin, Texas, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam.
• December 11 – Le Louvre-Lens art gallery in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, designed by SANAA.{{cite news|first=Angelique|last=Chrisafis|title=Louvre opens 'glass river' on Lens slagheap|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/03/louvre-lens-art-france-mining|date=December 4, 2012|access-date=December 4, 2012}}
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• Flame Towers, Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by HOK.
• ME Hotel, London, designed by Foster and Partners.
• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art new buildings are opened in Oslo, Norway.
• Statoil (now Equinor) Regional and International Offices, Oslo, Norway, by A-Lab Architects, winner of 2012 WAN Award for best office building{{cite news |title=Statoil regional and international offices |url=https://archello.com/project/statoil-regional-and-international-offices |website=Archello |access-date=December 13, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Equinor regional and international office building (previously Statoil) |url=https://www.visitoslo.com/en/product/?TLp=940995 |website=Visit Oslo |access-date=December 13, 2019}}

File:Abraj-al-Bait-Towers.JPG in Mecca, Saudi Arabia]]

• January 6 – Porta Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia.[http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/28/macedonia-kazakhstan-triumphal-arches-to-celebrate-20-years-of-independence/ Macedonia, Kazakhstan: Triumphal Arches to Celebrate 20 Years of Independence], Global Voices Online
• February 29 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest tower in the world, is completed in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan.
• June – Airport Link, a 6.7 km road tunnel in Brisbane, the longest in Australia.
• September – NEO Bankside apartments in London, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.{{cite web|title=NEO Bankside |url=http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/project.php?id=946|website=New London Architecture|access-date=January 15, 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115133925/http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/project.php?id=946|archive-date=January 15, 2015}}
• November 1 – Mercury City Tower, in Moscow, topped-out to become the tallest building in Europe (2012–2014).
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• Abraj Al Bait in Mecca, the tallest buildings in Saudi Arabia.
• Absolute World in Mississauga, Ontario, designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Studio.
• Church of Pentecost, Vinkovci, Serbia, a replica of the 18th century church that was destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence.{{cite news|url=http://www.novossti.com/2011/03/zlo-u-ratu-dobrota-u-miru/|language=sr|title=Zlo u ratu, dobrota u miru|newspaper=Novosti|issue=585|date=March 5, 2012|access-date=November 26, 2012}}
• Princess Tower, the world's tallest residential building, is completed in Dubai.
• The Bow (skyscraper) in Calgary, Alberta
• Soleil, the tallest building in Brisbane, Australia (until 2014) designed by DBI Design.
• Community in a Cube, RiversideOne, Middlesbrough, England, designed by FAT.{{cite journal|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/aj-building-studies/alone-in-riverside-one/8629467.article|title=Alone in Riverside One|date=April 26, 2012|first=Steve|last=Parnell|journal=Architects' Journal|location=London}}
• Astley Castle in North Warwickshire, England, refurbished for the Landmark Trust by Witherford Watson Mann Architects (winner, Stirling Prize, 2013).{{cite web|title=2013 RIBA Stirling Prize winner – Astley Castle, Warwickshire|url=http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/riba-stirling-shortlist-2013-astley-castle-warwickshire/|publisher=RIBA|access-date=September 27, 2013|date=September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925053524/http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/riba-stirling-shortlist-2013-astley-castle-warwickshire/|archive-date=September 25, 2013|url-status=dead}}
• University of Limerick Medical School in Ireland designed by Grafton Architects.
• Sarajevo City Center.
• The Wilson art gallery and museum extension and refurbishment in Cheltenham, England, designed by BGS Architects.

• AIA Architecture Firm Award – Vincent James Associates Architects
• AIA Gold Medal – Steven Holl
• Carbuncle Cup – Cutty Sark Renovation
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Paulo David
• Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Michael Graves
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Absolute World in Mississauga designed by Burka Architects and MAD Studio
• Lawrence Israel Prize – Diller Scofidio + Renfro
• LEAF Award, Overall Winner – Sou Fujimoto Architects
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Henning Larsen
• Pritzker Architecture Prize – Wang Shu
• RAIA Gold Medal – Lawrence Nield
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Herman Hertzberger
• Stirling Prize – Stanton Williams, for Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University{{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=October 14, 2012|access-date=October 15, 2012}}
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Rafael Moneo
• Twenty-five Year Award – Frank Gehry for Gehry Residence, Santa Monica
• Vincent Scully Prize – Paul Goldberger

• January 4 – Rod Robbie, Canadian architect (born 1928)
• January 8 – John Madin, English architect (born 1924)
• February 6 – Norma Merrick Sklarek, African American architect (born 1926)
• March 21 – Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (born 1907)
• June 4 – Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect (born 1925)
• June 15
• Francis Bonaert, Belgian architect (born 1914) was a Belgian architect.{{cite web|url=http://www.patrimoine-mobilier.be/patrimoine/News.aspx?id=299141&LangType=2060 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115030112/http://www.patrimoine-mobilier.be/patrimoine/News.aspx?id=299141&LangType=2060 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |title=In memoriam Baron Francis Bonaert |publisher=Patrimoine-mobilier.be |access-date=June 25, 2012 |language=fr}}
• Günther Domenig, Austrian architect (born 1934)
• June 19 – Gerhard M. Kallmann, German-born American architect (born 1915)
• July 2 – Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer (born 1929){{cite web|url=https://www.casatigallery.com/designers/angelo-mangiarotti/|title=Angelo Mangiarotti|website=Casati Gallery|access-date=2 February 2021}}
• August 20 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese architect and Prime Minister (born 1916){{cite news |url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120820/local/dom-mintoff-malta-s-most-controversial-political-giant.429112 |title=Dom Mintoff, Malta's political giant, passes away. |work=Times of Malta |date=20 August 2012 |access-date=20 August 2012}}
• August 26 – Peter L. Shelton, American architect and interior designer (born 1945)
• October 6 – Ulrich Franzen (born 1921), German-born American architectVitello, Paul (14 October 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/arts/design/ulrich-franzen-architect-of-new-york-buildings-dies-at-91.html Ulrich Franzen, Designer of Brutalist Buildings, Dies at 91], The New York Times
• October 26 – John M. Johansen, American architect (born 1916)
• October 30
• Wayland Tunley, British architect associated with Milton Keynes (born 1937){{cite web|title=OBITUARY: MARCH 2013|url=http://www.ribajournal.com/pages/march13_obituary_205702.cfm|work=RIBA Journal|access-date=March 19, 2013|date=March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226105040/http://www.ribajournal.com/pages/march13_obituary_205702.cfm|archive-date=February 26, 2014|url-status=dead}}
• Lebbeus Woods, American architect and artist (born 1940)
• November 1 – Gae Aulenti), Italian architect, interior and lighting designer (born 1927
• November 4 – David Resnick, Brazilian-born Israeli architect and town planner (born 1924)
• December 5 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (born 1907)
• December 14 – Alan Colquhoun, British architect (born 1921){{cite web |url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/great-educator-alan-colquhoun-dies-aged-91/8640228.article |title='Great educator' Alan Colquhoun dies aged 91 |last=Fulcher |first=Merlin |date=December 14, 2012 |work=architectsjournal |publisher=EMAP Publishing Limited|access-date=January 10, 2013}}

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