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The year 2006 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Beetham Tower in Birmingham, England, is completed.
• Beetham Tower in Manchester, England, is completed.
• Brisbane Square by architects Denton Corker Marshall is completed in Brisbane

Events

• January 9 - Fire destroys Chicago's 1891 Pilgrim Baptist Church, designed by Louis Sullivan.
• January 31 - Ground breaks on Waterview Tower, and the 89-story Shangri-La Hotel in Chicago.
• April 10 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the High Line elevated greenway in New York City.
• April 27 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center.
• May 26 - Berlin Hauptbahnhof opens in Berlin. It is the largest train station in Europe.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Antoine Predock.
• Architecture Firm Award - Moore Ruble Yudell.
• AIA Twenty-Five Year Award - Thorncrown Chapel by E. Fay Jones.
• Emporis Skyscraper Award - Hearst Tower.
• Pritzker Prize - Paulo Mendes da Rocha (born 1928) from São Paulo, Brasil.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Orléans-la-Source Science Library by Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet.
• RIAS Award in Architecture - Page\Park for Maggie's Centre, Inverness.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Kerry Hill.
• Royal Gold Medal - Toyo Ito.
• Stirling Prize - Richard Rogers.
• Vincent Scully Prize - Phyllis Lambert.

Births

Deaths

• April 25 - Jane Jacobs (born 1916)
• July 5 - Hugh Stubbins Jr.

See also: Architecture timeline