The year2006 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

• January 9 – Fire destroys Chicago's 1891Pilgrim Baptist Church, designed byLouis Sullivan.
• January 31 – Ground breaks onWaterview Tower, and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago.
• March 15 –Cirrus apartment building topped off inHelsinki, becoming thetallest building in Finland (until 2014).
• April 10 – Groundbreaking ceremony for theHigh Line elevatedgreenway in New York City.
• April 27 – Construction work begins on theFreedom Tower, a replacement for theWorld Trade Center.
• July 8 – The government of Abu Dhabi andSolomon R. Guggenheim Foundation signs a memorandum of understanding for the building of theGuggenheim Abu Dhabi.
• September 21 – Construction work begins on theSkolkovo Moscow School of Management campus, designed byDavid Adjaye.

• February 5 –Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 inaugurated, designed byAntonio Lamela andRichard Rogers.
• March 1 – TheSenedd, the National Assembly building inCardiff,Wales, by architectRichard Rogers, is opened byQueen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.^[1]

• April 4 –Busch Stadium, designed byPopulous (formerly HOK sport), opened as the new home of theSt. Louis Cardinals.
• May 4 –Hearst Tower employees move into theNorman Foster designed,diagrid building nearColumbus Circle, in New York City.
• May 5 –Aurora Tower opened to the public asthe tallest building inBrisbane, Australia (until 2012).
• May 19 –Mercedes-Benz Museum,Stuttgart, Germany, designed byUNStudio, opened.
• May 23 –7 World Trade Center officially opens thenew building designed bySkidmore, Owings & Merrill at noon, with a free concert.
• May 26 –Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main Station) opening ceremony. Design from the winning competition entry by theHamburg architecture firmGerkan, Marg and Partners.
• June 14 –Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts grand opening inToronto, Ontario, Canada, byCanadianDiamond and Schmitt Architects.
• June 16 –The National Library of Belarus opened inMinsk,Belarus in the shape of arhombicuboctahedron.
• June 20 –Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, designed byJean Nouvel, inaugurated.
• June 26 –Savill Building opens at theSavill Garden inWindsor Great Park,Surrey, with agridshell roof designed byGlen Howells Architects.
• July – Red Ribbon (bench), designed by Turenscape as part ofTanghe River Park,Qinhuangdao, China, opens.^[2]
• July 1 – Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard, designed byFoster and Partners opens as part ofThe Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture refurbishment in Washington, D.C.^[2]
• July 22 –Emirates Stadium, designed byPopulous, opened in theLondon Borough of Islington for theArsenal Football Club.
• Summer –House of Sweden (the Swedish embassy) completed in Washington, D.C., designed bySwedish architectsGert Wingårdh andTomas Hansen.
• September –Museum of Modern Literature (Literaturmuseum der Moderne or LiMo) opened inMarbach, Germany, byBritish architectDavid Chipperfield.
• September 2 –Bishan Community Library opened inSingapore.
• October –Janelia Farm Research Campus completed inLoudoun County, Virginia, byRafael Viñoly.
• October 5 –The Arsht Center opens inDowntown Miami, Florida as the third largest performing arts center in the United States.
• October 11 –Eureka Tower a 297.3 metres (975 ft) residential skyscraper, designed byFender Katsalidis Architects, opens inMelbourne, Australia.

• October 26 –Klaus Advanced Computing Building officially opened on the campus ofGeorgia Institute of Technology, byAmerican architectsPerkins+Will.^[3]
• October 27 –Vesteda Tower a 90 m (300 ft) residential tower, designed byJo Coenen, opens inEindhoven, Netherlands.
• November –Maggie's Centre,Kirkcaldy,Scotland, a drop-in cancer care centre;Zaha Hadid's first built work in the United Kingdom.^[4]
• December 1
  • Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, designed byArchitectus, opens inBrisbane,Queensland, Australia.
  • Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse officially opened inEugene, Oregon, designed byMorphosis.
• date unknown –America's Cup Building inaugurated inValencia, Spain, designed byBritish architectDavid Chipperfield.^[5]

• January 16 –10 Holloway Circus is completed inBirmingham, UK, designed bySimpsonHaugh and Partners.
• October 9 –Beetham Tower inManchester, UK, designed by architectIan Simpson, who himself resides in the top penthouse.
• December 10 –Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston completed, designed byDiller Scofidio + Renfro.
• December –Megasport Arena in Moscow, Russia.

• date unknown
  • Accordia housing development inCambridge, UK, phase 1 construction, designed byFeilden Clegg Bradley Studios withMaccreanor Lavington andAlison Brooks Architects (Stirling Prize 2008).
  • Saint-Pierre, Firminy, France, completed byJosé Oubrerie to a church design byLe Corbusier (died1965) begun in1971.
  • CNOOC Building inBeijing, designed by American architectsKohn Pedersen Fox.
  • KUMU (KUnstiMUuseum),Tallinn,Estonia, designed byFinnish architectPekka Vapaavuori.
  • Halmstad Library,Halmstad, Sweden, designed bySchmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
  • The New York Times Building in New York City, designed byRenzo Piano andFox & Fowle.

• AIA Gold Medal –Antoine Predock
• Architecture Firm Award –Moore Ruble Yudell
• Carbuncle Cup –Drake Circus Shopping Centre
• Driehaus Architecture Prize –Allan Greenberg^[6]
• Emporis Skyscraper Award –Hearst Tower
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme –Francis Cuillier
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award –Frei Otto
• Pritzker Prize –Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) from São Paulo, Brasil
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent –Orléans-la-Source Science Library byFlorence Lipsky andPascal Rollet
• RAIA Gold Medal –Kerry Hill
• RIAS Award in Architecture –Page\Park Architects forMaggie's Centre, Inverness
• RIBARoyal Gold Medal –Toyo Ito
• Stirling Prize –Richard Rogers Partnership forBarajas Airport Terminal 4,Madrid, Spain^[7]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –Peter Zumthor
• AIATwenty-five Year Award –Thorncrown Chapel byE. Fay Jones
• Vincent Scully Prize –Phyllis Lambert

• March 9 –Harry Seidler, Austrian-born Australian architect (born1923)
• April 25 –Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies (born1916)^[8]
• May 10 –Nisse Strinning, Swedish architect and designer (born1917)
• July 5 –Hugh Stubbins, US architect (born1912)

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