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The year 1996 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

  • June 30 – The historic Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, designed by architect Wayne McAllister, is demolished.
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  • The Stirling Prize is instituted in memory of James Stirling. The first winner is Stephen Hodder for the Centenary Building, University of Salford, Greater Manchester (opened in the same year).
  • Eden Project, Cornwall near St Austell is designed by Nicholas Grimshaw (completed 2001).
  • The Pringle Richards Sharratt partnership is established in London.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • March 15 – Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, designed by Søren Robert Lund.
  • May 26 – Hong Kong China Temple, Hong Kong (inaugurated).
  • October 3 – Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta.
  • November – Museum für Gegenwart (contemporary art museum) in former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, converted by Josef Paul Kleihues.

Buildings completed

thumb|[[Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil]]

thumb|The [[Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic]]

  • Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
  • Eco Building at Horniman Museum, London, designed by Architype.
  • Fruit Museum, Yamanashi, Japan, designed by Itsuko Hasegawa.
  • Aukrust Centre, Alvdal, Norway, designed by Sverre Fehn.
  • Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Denton Corker Marshall.
  • Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, designed by K. Y. Cheung Design Associates, the tallest building in Asia until it is surpassed the following year.
  • Therme Vals in Switzerland, designed by Peter Zumthor.
  • The Dancing House (Nationale-Nederlanden building) in Prague, designed by Vlado Milunić with Frank Gehry.
  • Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh, a drop-in cancer care centre; building conversion by Richard Murphy.
  • Orphanage (first stage), Chhebetor, Nepal, designed by Hans Olav Hesseberg and Sixten Rahiff of Bergen School of Architecture.
  • 81 Mill Street, Osney, Oxford, England, a house designed for himself by Adrian James.

Awards

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Philip Johnson
  • Architecture Firm Award – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
  • European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Dominique Perrault for Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • Grand prix national de l'architecture – Bernard Tschumi
  • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Tadao Ando
  • Pritzker Prize – Rafael Moneo
  • Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Pierre-Louis Faloci
  • RAIA Gold Medal – Denton Corker Marshall
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Harry Seidler
  • Stirling Prize – Stephen Hodder for Centenary Building, University of Salford
  • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Jane Jacobs
  • Twenty-five Year Award – United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel
  • UIA Gold Medal – Rafael Moneo

Deaths

  • February 14 – Alejandro de la Sota, Spanish architect (born 1913)
  • May 19 – Roy Mason, American lecturer, writer and futuristic architect (born 1938)
  • July 17 – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, English landscape architect (born 1900)
  • July 27 – Dame Jane Drew, English modernist architect and town planner (born 1911)
  • November 23 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect, designer of the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Britain (born 1912)

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