2007 in architecture

The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings opened

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• January 20 – Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA., USA, designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
• January 21 – The National Art Center, Tokyo, designed by Kisho Kurokawa.
• February 28 – San Francisco Federal Building, by Morphosis.
• March 8 – Limoges Concert Hall, France, by Bernard Tschumi Architects.
• March 9 – New Wembley Stadium, London (original stadium demolished in 2002).
• April 25 – IAC/InterActiveCorp headquarters opens in New York, by Gehry Partners.
• June 9 – Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. by Steven Holl Architects.
• June – Pawilon Wyspiański 2000, Kraków, Poland, by Krzysztof Ingarden.
• August 9 – Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England, by Henning Larsen.
• October – Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by David Adjaye.
• October 12 – Armed Forces Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, England, by Liam O'Connor Architects and Planning Consultants.
• October 17 – BMW Welt ("BMW World") exhibition facility in Munich, Germany, by Coop Himmelb(l)au.
• November 3 – Digital Beijing Building in China, by Pei Zhu.
• December 1 – The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, by SANAA.
• December 10 – Inauguration of major Marseille-Saint-Charles railway station's requalification.

Buildings completed

• Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall.
• Beetham Tower, Manchester by Ian Simpson.
• Kolumba (diocesan art museum) in Cologne, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor
• Wachendorf-Feldkapelle-Bruder-Klaus, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor
• FiftyTwoDegrees in Nijmegen, designed by Mecanoo

Events

• May 30 – The Saitta House at Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York built in 1899 is added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]
• June 26 - The Museum of the History of Polish Jews groundbreaking ceremony is held in Warsaw. The building was completed in 2013.
• July 21 – Construction of Burj Khalifa surpasses the height of Taipei 101 (510 m) to become the tallest building in the world at 818m.

Exhibitions

• Arch Moscow

Awards

The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York (built in 1899) has been on the National Register since 2007.

• AIA Gold Medal – Edward Larrabee Barnes
• Architecture Firm Award – Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects
• BNA Building of the Year (nl) - Vesteda Tower
• Driehaus Architecture Prize – Jaquelin T. Robertson^[2]
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Het Strijkijzer
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Yves Lion
• Mies van der Rohe Prize – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for the MUSAC in León, Spain
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Herzog & de Meuron
• Pritzker Prize – Richard Rogers
• RAIA Gold Medal – Enrico Taglietti
• Royal Gold Medal – Herzog & de Meuron
• Stirling Prize – David Chipperfield Architects for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Zaha Hadid
• Twenty-five Year Award – Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vincent Scully Prize – Witold Rybczynski

Deaths

• June 26 – Lucien Hervé, French photographer of architecture (born 1910)
• June 20 – Margaret Helfand, Manhattan-based New York architect and urban planner (born 1947; colon cancer)
• August 11 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor, and marine scientist (born 1938)
• September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German rationalist architect and architectural theorist (born 1926)
• October 12 – Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa, Japanese architect and co-founder of the Metabolist Movement (born 1934)
• October 21 - Jorge Arango, Colombian-born US minimalist architect (born 1917)

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