The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 20 â Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA., USA, designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
- January 21 â The National Art Center, Tokyo, designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
- February 28 â San Francisco Federal Building, by Morphosis.
- March 8 â Limoges Concert Hall, France, by Bernard Tschumi Architects.
- March 9 â New Wembley Stadium, London (original stadium demolished in 2002).
- March 23 â Pakistan Monument, Islamabad, designed by Arif Masoud.
- April 25 â IAC/InterActiveCorp headquarters opens in New York, by Gehry Partners.
- May 27 â St Bede's Church, Basingstoke, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Maguire and Murray.
- June 2 â at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
- June 9 â Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. by Steven Holl Architects.
- June â , Kraków, Poland, by Krzysztof Ingarden.
- JuneâÂÂJuly â East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton, England, by Thomas Heatherwick.
- August â La Vicaria Arch Bridge in Spain.
- August 9 â at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England, by Henning Larsen.
- September 16 â Hull Paragon Interchange (railway station reconstruction), Kingston upon Hull, England, designed by WilkinsonEyre.
- October â Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by David Adjaye.
- October 12 â Armed Forces Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, England, by Liam O'Connor Architects and Planning Consultants.
- October 17 â BMW Welt ("BMW World") exhibition facility in Munich, Germany, by Coop Himmelb(l)au.
- November 3 â Digital Beijing Building in China, by Pei Zhu.
- December 1 â The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, by SANAA.
- December 10 â Inauguration of Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles' major reconstruction as a transportation interchange in France.
Buildings completed
- Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall.
- Beetham Tower, Manchester by Ian Simpson.
- Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary, Alberta
- Kolumba (diocesan art museum) in Cologne, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor.
- Tama Art University Library, HachiÃ
Âji campus in Tokyo, designed by Toyo Ito.
- , Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor.
- FiftyTwoDegrees in Nijmegen, designed by Mecanoo.
- , West Side Rowing Club, Buffalo, New York, based on a 1905 plan by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- , Watford, Britain's first zero-carbon house, designed by Sheppard Robson.
- Albury Library Museum, designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.
- Sunken House, De Beauvoir Town, north London, designed by David Adjaye.
Exhibitions
Awards
Deaths
See also
References