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- 4 May 2007: "The Serpentine's 2007 summer pavilion promises to be another hit" - collaboration with Olafur Eliasson, Kjetil Thorsen of Snohetta, and the Advanced Geometry Unit of Arup
- 3 May 2007: "Tadao Ando Construction Site 2006" - New museum forms the "Roppongi Art Triangle" near Gluckman Mayner's Mori Art Museum and Kisho Kurokawa's recently opened National Art Center, Tokyo
- 15 April 2007: "Mario Bellini hitting a new stride late in career"
- 13 April 2007: "Zaha Hadid Wins Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture"
- 12 April 2007: "Tadao Ando Talk Asia Interview"
- 10 April 2007: "NZIA Resene New Zealand Award Winners 2007"
- 9 April 2007: "Uganda: Nation's Lost Heritage" - Architecture of Uganda
- 8 April 2007: "Firm foundations" - interview with Will Alsop
- 7 April 2007: "Kimbell addition is in Piano's hands" - "Texas can't seem to get enough of Renzo Piano"
- 5 April 2007: "Contract awarded for National Conference Centre in Dublin" to Kevin Roche
- 4 April 2007: Urban design for everyday public spaces in traditional market streets in Hong Kong
- 3 April 2007: "Googie architecture: When Jetsons ruled the Earth"
- 30 March 2007: "Vladimir Shukhov one of the most prolific and innovative architects in early 20th-century Russia. But today his legacy is endangered"
- 29 March 2007: "Vernacular Architecture Forum focuses on Lowcountry" in Savannah, Georgia
- 28 March 2007: "Rogers takes the 'Nobel for architecture' " - Lord Richard Rogers honored with the 2007 Pritzker Prize + Newsweek interview
- 25 March 2007: "How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall" - Transportation planning
- 24 March 2007: "Vank Cathedral a specimen of Armenian architecture" - Cathedral architecture
- 23 March 2007: £290 million King Alfred development will be granted planning permission designed by Frank Gehry - see also: IAC headquarters reviewed New York Times
- 23 March 2007: "Havana's former grandeur decays and crumbles"
- 22 March 2007: "More architecture firms are offshoring", Businessweek
- 22 March 2007: "Koolhaas reveals design for Singapore skyscraper"
- 21 March 2007: "Josef Pleskot channels artistic ambitions into tall buildings" - Architecture of the Czech Republic
- 20 March 2007: Building Design Partnership rebuilds the grandstands at the Aintree racecourse in the northern suburbs of Liverpool
- 19 March 2007: "Urban style should regain harmony" - Urban planning in Ha Noi, Vietnam
- 19 March 2007: Eurostar begins its service from St Pancras railway station - 135 minutes from London to Paris, 2 hours to Brussels
- 18 March 2007: "Better education through architecture" - Architecture of Malaysia
- 18 March 2007: "The Best Architecture" … is from European architects. Newsweek
- 17 March 2007: Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, established in the spring of 2006 at Princeton University
- 16 March 2007: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art explores in “Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture” - Curtain Wall House by Shigeru Ban Architects, Blur Building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and more.
- 15 March 2007: "Where in heaven (or hell) did the McMansion come from?" - Easthampton, New York
- 14 March 2007: UK Architecture Week 15 - 24 June 2007 : "How Green is our Space"
- 13 March 2007: "Tastemakers in Architecture ". Forbes.com - 10 architects most influencing our culture: Adjaye, Hadid, Mayne, Sejima…
- 13 March 2007: "The Akhtamar Church has no analogs in the world’s architecture" - Architecture of Turkey
- 12 March 2007: "How New York City-based architect Tina Manis balances the demands of family and work" - Newsweek & “Currently, women make up only 11 percent of AIA membership,”… Interior Design
- 9 March 2007: After long delays the keys to Wembley Stadium are finally handed to the client.
- 9 March 2007: Architecture for Humanity launches the Open Architecture Network Official website
- 8 March 2007: Superstar architect Frank Gehry will expand the first art museum he designed at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis
- 7 March 2007: "First Lisbon Architecture Triennial to Focus on Filling Urban Voids" - Architecture of Portugal
- 7 March 2007: "Big home builders say most consumers won't pay for 'green' homes" - Green building and sustainable architecture
- 6 March 2007: "Walls go up in the search for security" - concrete barricades
- 5 March 2007: "Iran's rich architecture and rare treasures threatened by possible US strikes"
- 5 March 2007: "A Soviet historic site even the historians don't want to preserve" Europe's largest hotel, the enormous Rossiya - few are griping about it being bulldozed.
- 4 March 2007: "PRC cracks down on costly foreign architecture trend"
- 2 March 2007: Shetland Museum and Archives commended as one of the top examples of sustainable, high quality architecture in Scotland
- 3 March 2007: "The Architecture of Happiness: Where Beauty, History Meet - book review
- 2 March 2007: For Milan 2007: "20-06" All-Aluminum Chair by Foster and Partners and Emeco
- 2 March 2007: Depression era architecture proposal by Bernard Maybeck for Berkley California
- 1 March 2007: "Alexei Komech [Moscow] City Preservationist, Dies" [1] Heritage Champion Battles City Hall
- 28 February 2007: "International architecture competition for large integrated urban site in Dublin" - official site
- 25 February 2007: "S.F.'s new federal building" $144 million project by Thom Mayne of Morphosis
- 25 February 2007: [U.S.] "Architecture Billings Index Begins 2007 on a High Note"
- 24 February 2007: GBD Art District Phase 1 Architecture Competition official site first prize: RMB¥150,000 (US$19,300)
- 22 February 2007: "1.5 Million Euro Donated To Netherlands Architecture Institute"
- 22 February 2007: "Medieval Islamic Architecture Presages 20th-century Mathematics". Signs of Advanced Math in Islamic Girih tiles
- 20 February 2007: Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 2 Received by Herzog & de Meuron
- 20 February 2007: "Building Our Legacy" architecture blueprint unveiled Scottish government's new architecture policy
- 18 February 2007: Q&A with Elizabeth Diller, principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on her role in designing the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art on Boston Harbor.
- 17 February 2007: The mystery of Mahathupa or Ruwanweliseya stupa in Celon
- 17 February 2007: Scientists explore the Tarimi Palaces, in Yemen (part 2), (part 3), (part 4)
- 16 February 2007: Scottish firm NORD Architecture wins New Headquarters
- 14 February 2007: Lessons to learn in African architecture
- 12 February 2007: Spanish National Architecture prize awarded to Santiago Calatrava
- 12 February 2007: Collapse of a concrete floor section at Rafael Viñoly’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center, in Pittsburgh. No injuries were reported.
- 11 February 2007: Hyperboloids among the rectangle - Construction of new Tel Aviv Museum
- 9 February 2007: Memorial master shares influences, perspectives on art, architecture - Maya Lin lecture at Rice University
- 9 February 2007: Between Pompeii and Benin City architecture - History of Benin Empire architecture in southern Nigeria
- 7 February 2007: Modernism and Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture, 1917-1967 - book review
- 7 February 2007: Splendour of Russian Wooden Architecture - six museums and websites
- 7 February 2007: America's Favorite Architecture - 150 favorite structures across the nation
- 6 February 2007: New Evidence of Sassanid architecture identified at Kangelou Fortress, Iran
- 6 February 2007: Visiting the most recent architecture in the Basque region of Spain
- 3 February 2007: Denver Art Museum's $110 million addition by architect Daniel Libeskind
- 30 January 2007: Czech city of Brno sued for possession of the historic Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe
- 30 January 2007: Seven finalists announced for the Mies van der Rohe award
- 30 January 2007: Frank Lloyd Wright's Brandes House in the Puget Sound area is on the market
- 27 January 2007: US$14 million Swiss Ambassador's Residence by Steven Holl
- 26 January 2007: Restoring Penang’s heritage - restoring traditional Chinese architecture
- 26 January 2007: Qingyun Ma appointed new architecture dean at USC
- 25 January 2007: Paris to begun building affordable housing to replace Banlieue suburbs
- 24 January 2007: Frank Gehry gets green light on the 22-acre, US$4 billion–plus Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, New York
- 23 January 2007: Escaping From the Shadow of the 'Wall', Maya Lin 25 years after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- 22 January 2007: U.S. Architecture Billings Index (ABI) Ends 2006 with Highest Mark of the Year
- 22 January 2007: Architectural riches in Africa's newest country Eritrea, a former province of Ethiopia
- 21 January 2007: New Orleans preservationists protect damaged homes
- 21 January 2007: Lord Norman Foster considers sale of Foster + Partners with 44.5 mln stg. (87.2 M$) in billings for 2005
- 18 January 2007: Quebec Order of Architects (OAQ) reveal finalists in the 24th edition of the Architecture Awards of Excellence
- 17 January 2007: Billings at U.S. architecture firms increased 11 percent between 2002 and 2005; more
- 14 January 2007: Freedom Tower Gets Start in a Luxembourg Plant.
- 12 January 2007: AIA Honor Awards - Eight of the 11 projects are schools and educational facilities, plus the Bloomberg Tower interior, Peter Eisenman's Berlin Memorial and more.
- 12 January 2007: The Jarvis Street Campus at Canada's National Ballet School (NBS) received the 2007 AIA Institute Honor Award
- 5 January 2007: Mexican architect Enrique Norten Bags two waterfront competitions
- 4 January 2007: Prepare to vote for "City of the Future"
- 1 January 2007: Zaha Hadid unveils plans for an Art museum in Caligari, Italy
- 1 January 2007: Swiss Ambassador's Residence in Washington D.C. by Steven Holl
- January 2006 – after more than a year of renovations, Bellevue Palace once again becomes the residence of the President of Germany
- 18 December 2006: Prince Charles is to create ‘eco-castle’ [2]
- 27 April 2006: Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, a replacement for the World Trade Center
- 11 October 2006: In Melbourne, Australia, the Eureka Tower residential building is officially opened. At 297.5m (976ft), the structure is the second tallest skyscraper in the Southern Hemisphere, and the second tallest residential building in the world.
- 9 October 2006: Official opening of Hearst Tower, the first LEED Gold rated building in New York City
- 24 August 2006: The 2006 Stirling Prize shortlist is announced.
- 10 August 2006: Louis I Kahn's Trenton Bath House is purchased by Mercer County and Ewing Township, ensuring it's Restoration.
- 25 July 2006: Herzog & de Meuron are announced as winners of the Tate Modern extension competition.
- 26 May 2006 Berlin Hauptbahnhof opens in Berlin. It is the largest train station in Europe.
- 11 October 2006: A small aircraft crashes into a building at 524 East 72nd Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City killing 2 people. FBI states that there is so far no reason to suspect terrorism, and the alert level hasn't been raised. The plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. Lidle is reported to have been the pilot, and along with his flight instructor, was killed in the crash. (CBS 2 New York) (CNN) (The New York Times) (ESPN)
- 23 October 2006: In Panama, a proposal to double the capacity of the Panama Canal is approved in a national referendum
- 14 October 2006: The Richard Rogers Partnership wins the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 at Barajas Airport
