Arquitectura: what not to miss in 2009
Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy
The world's most influential architect gets his own show at London's Royal Academy, in celebration of his recent 500th birthday. Even the humblest British Georgian terrace is a relative of some of the best loved of all European buildings designed by the Italian master. Unmissable if you wish to make sense of British classicism, and even of 20th-century modernism.
• Royal Academy, London W1 (020-7300 8000), 31 Jan-13 April
Opening Festival: West 65th Project, Lincoln Centre, New York
The Lincoln Centre celebrates its 50th anniversary with the opening of the controversial transformation of the Alice Tully concert hall, originally designed in a brutalist style by Pietro Belluschi and the radical New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. What was a finely chiselled 1960s concrete fortress will be dressed from top-to-toe in transparent glass. The occasion is to be marked by a two-week festival starting on 22 February.
• Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre Plaza, New York. lincolncenter.org
Maxxi - Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del Secolo, Rome
The long-awaited completion of this museum, designed by Zaha Hadid on the site of former factories and army barracks, comes in the summer. With overlapping corridors, a confluence of galleries, open-air courtyards and floors that become walls and even roofs, it promises to be a major, and compelling, artwork. Maxxi will focus on art and architecture; it will be, in fact, the first national museum of architecture in Italy.
• Maxxi, Rome, (+39 06 321 0181; maxxi.darc.beniculturali.it)
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford
The exquisite Graeco-Roman museum designed by Charles Cockerell reveals its subtle, yet major, extension and transformation in the autumn. It has been given the once over by Rick Mather, the meticulous modern architect previously given the tricky job of extending Sir John Soane's precious Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. There will be 100% more display space along with teaching rooms, conservation galleries and an education centre.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (01865 278000), Sep
CCTV Tower, Beijing
This spectacular building, seemingly in the guise of some giant, ultra-modern Chinese calligraphic character, was completed (in skeletal form) in time for the 2008 Olympics. But there was nothing inside. By the end of 2009, it will become the headquarters of China's state television company and, remarkably, will be open to the public. The dynamic design is by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, with Cecil Balmond as design engineer. A tour-de-force.
• CCTV Tower, Third Ring Road, Beijing. cctv.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/dec/30/best-architecture-events-2009
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