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❤️ 2018 in architecture 🌻

"The year 2018 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events Church of St. Lambertus * January 9 – Church of St. Lambertus, Immerath, Germany, demolished. * June 15 – Second major fire at Glasgow School of Art. * August 14 – Ponte Morandi, Genoa, collapses. Buildings and structures ;China * Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23. * Goldin Finance 117, Tianjin, the third tallest building in China, designed by P & T Group and ECADI, projected for completion. ;Denmark * Fjordenhus, Kirk Kapital headquarters, on Vejle Fjord, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, completed. ;France * Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux officially opened April 24. * Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes ;Hong Kong * Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opened October 23. ;Ireland * Pálás cinema, Galway, designed by Tom de Paor, opened February 23. ;Malaysia * Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, the third tallest building in Malaysia, projected for completion. Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia New Istanbul Airport in Arnavutköy, Istanbul, Turkey V&A; Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland ;Norway * Ureddplassen public toilet, designed by Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter + Landskapsfabrikken, opened. ;Russia * Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge opened May 16. * Lakhta Center, in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe, commissioning begins June 27. ;Spain * Mac House (Casa Mac), Novelda, designed by La Errería. ;Sweden * Norra Tornen (Northern Towers) eastern residential tower, Stockholm, designed by OMA, completed. ;Taiwan * Weiwuying (National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts), Kaohsiung, designed by Mecanoo, opened October 13. ;Turkey * Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık, opened October 10. * Istanbul New Airport with the future world’s largest terminal, officially opened October 29. ; Ukraine * Chernobyl New Safe Confinement projected for completion December. ;United Kingdom * Broomlands Primary School in Kelso, Scottish Borders, designed by Stallan- Brand, opened January 9. * Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery for the University of Cambridge at Eddington, designed by Stuart McKnight of MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), completed c. March. * Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford Department of Physics, designed by Hawkins\Brown, officially opened September 17. * The Hubert Perrodo Building at St Peter's College, Oxford, by Design Engine Architects, officially opened March 13. * Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) and Max Fordham, opened to public June 11. * V&A; Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, designed by Kengo Kuma, opened September 15. * Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross Central in London, conversion of industrial premises to retail development by Thomas Heatherwick, opened October 26. * Gloucester Bus Station, designed by Building Design Partnership, opened October 26-28\. * The Macallan distillery, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, new building opened. * Nevill Holt Opera within 17th century stable block, designed by Witherford Watson Mann, opened June 14. Amazon Spheres in Seattle, USA * Mapleton Crescent, Wandsworth (high-rise prefabricated apartments), designed by Metropolitan Workshop. * Wittering House, Finsbury Park, home for self by Charles Bettes of GPad London, completed. * House in the Garden, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford, completed. ;United States *Amazon Spheres in Seattle, designed by NBBJ, opened January 30. *Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, Virginia designed by Steven Holl opened April 21.https://www.wtvr.com/2018/04/13/vcus-landmark-ica-opens-with- declaration-to-power-of-art-and- diversity/amp/https://www.archdaily.com/893277/institute-for-contemporary-art- at-vcu-steven-holl-architects *Stir restaurant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (architectural interior) designed by Frank Gehry opened October 12.https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/stir_o *3 World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opened June 11. Exhibitions *26 May until 25 November - The 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy *15 July until 13 January 2019 - "Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980" at MOMA in New York City.https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3931https://designyoutrust.com/2018/11/toward- a-concrete-utopia-brutalist-yugoslavian-architecture/ Awards *AIA Gold Medal – James Stewart Polshek *Architecture Firm Award AIA – Snow Kreilich Architects *Emporis Skyscraper Award – MGM Cotai *Lawrence Israel Prize - Annabelle Selldorfhttps://archpaper.com/2018/10/annabelle-selldorf-lawrence- israel-prize-fit/#gallery-0-slide-0 *Pritzker Architecture Prize – Balkrishna Doshi *Prix Versailles Shops & Stores – Apple Orchard Road (Singapore, Singapore) / Foster and Partners (United Kingdom) *Prix Versailles Shopping Malls – Watermark Westquay (Southampton, United Kingdom) / acme, Hammerson (United Kingdom) *Prix Versailles Hotels – Amanyangyun (Shanghai, China) / Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore) *Prix Versailles Restaurants – Ixi'im (Chocholá Municipality, Mexico) / Central de proyectos SCP, Paulina Morán (Mexico) *RAIA Gold Medal – Alexander Tzannes *RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Neave Brown *Stirling Prize – Foster and Partners for Bloomberg London *Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Sir David Adjaye *Vincent Scully Prize – Inga Saffron and Robert Campbell Deaths Rafael Calventi *January 7 – Aydın Boysan, 96, Turkish architect *January 9 – Neave Brown, 88, American- born British architect *January 17 – Ted McCoy, 92, New Zealand architect *February 18 – Ivor Smith, 93, English architect *February 19 – Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian *February 20 – Lionel March, 84, British architect and mathematician *February 22 – Serban Cantacuzino, 90, French-born Romanian-British architect *April 26 – David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect *May 12 – Will Alsop, 70, British architect *May 18 – Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and architecture critic (From Bauhaus to Our House) *May 28 – Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese born Taiwanese architect *August 19 – Rafael Calventi, 92, Dominican architect and diplomat *August 26 – Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect *September 13 – Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect *September 18 – Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas *October 11 – Paul Andreu, 80, French architect (Osaka Maritime Museum) *November 24 – Gene Leedy, 90, American architect *December 27 – Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil- Université-de-Sherbrooke) See also *Timeline of architecture References Category:21st-century architecture Category:2018-related lists "

❤️ Jennifer Arveláez 🌻

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❤️ Speea 🌻

"Speea is a genus of Chilean plants in the onion subfamily within the Amaryllis family.Loesener, Ludwig Eduard Theodor. 1923. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 10: 63.Philippi, Rudolf Amandus 1884. Anales de la Universidad de Chile 65: 301, as Geanthus ;SpeciesThe Plant List Search for Speea Both known species are native to central Chile. *Speea humilis (Phil.) Loes. ex K.Krause *Speea triloba Ravenna References Category:Amaryllidaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Chile "

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