The year 1988 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events Hawkins\Brown architectural practice established in London.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
March 13 – Seikan Tunnel beneath the Tsugaru Strait in Japan. May 9 – Parliament House, Canberra, Australia. September 25 – Aalto Theatre, Essen, Germany. October 10 – Cairo Opera House, Egypt. November 2 – Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Dili, Indonesia.UCANews November 9, 1988 December – Torre Picasso, in Madrid, Spain, by Minoru Yamasaki. date unknown – National Union of Mineworkers headquarters, Sheffield, England.
Buildings completed
March 11 – Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque, Selangor, Malaysia. July – 108 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. Scotia Plaza in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Bell Media Tower in Montreal, Canada. Canterra Tower in Calgary, Alberta. Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Pitampura TV Tower in New Delhi, India. Washington Mutual Tower in Seattle, Washington. Central Plaza 1, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. One Kansas City Place, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Bellevue Place, Hong Kong, designed by Rocco Design Architects. Richmond Riverside development in London, England, designed by Quinlan Terry. ERCO Technical Centre (Technisches Zentrum ERCO-Leuchten) in Lüdenscheid, Germany, designed by Uwe Kiessler. Storm water pumping station on the Isle of Dogs in London, designed by John Outram Associates. Causewayside Building, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, designed by Andrew Merrylees.| Clovelly Visitor Centre in North Devon, England, designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects. House for Janet Street-Porter, Clerkenwell, London, designed by Piers Gough of CZWG.
Awards Alvar Aalto Medal – Alvaro Siza Architecture Firm Award – Hartman-Cox Architects European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Alvaro Siza for Banco Borges e Irmão, Vila do Conde Pritzker Prize – Oscar Niemeyer and Gordon Bunshaft RAIA Gold Medal – Romaldo Giurgola RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Richard Meier Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Romaldo Giurgola. Twenty-five Year Award – Washington Dulles International Airport Terminal Building
Deaths March – Tom Ellis, English architect (born 1911) March 12 – Bernard Rudofsky, Moravian-born American writer, architect, collector, teacher, designer, and social historian (born 1905) August 21 – Ray Eames, American architect and designer, partner of Charles Eames (born 1912) November 22 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (born 1902)
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