2003 in architecture

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The year 2003 in architecture involved some significant events.

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The Selfridges Building in the Bull Ring in Birmingham, which won Future Systems seven architecture awards.

Treasure Hill illegal settlement transformed into an example of urban acupuncture in Taipei.2003.

July 8 - Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Novo Museu) reopens in Curitiba, Brazil, originally designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
September 4 - Selfridges Birmingham store opened (subsequently popularizing the color Yves Klein Blue). Designed by Czech born British architect Jan Kaplický of Future Systems.
September - Maggie's Centre, Dundee, Scotland a drop-in cancer care centre; Frank Gehry's first work in the United Kingdom.
October 23 - Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, opens in Los Angeles, California.
December 30 - Estádio Municipal de Braga opens, designed by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Laban Dance Centre, Deptford, London, and Schaulager, Münchenstein, Switzerland, both designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
Taipei Treasure Hill designed by Marco Casagrande completed.
Park Pobedy in the Moscow Metro system is completed.
Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), designed by Edward Cullinan Architects, is completed.

July 1 - Taipei 101 is topped out to become the tallest building in the world.
December 20 - Triumph-Palace apartment building in Moskow becomes the highest building in Europe.
Daniel Libeskind's design, entitled Memory Foundations, is accepted for the World Trade Center site in New York.
Demolition of the Department of the Environment Building (completed 1971) at Marsham Street, Westminster, London. A new five storey glass-faced Home Office building is being erected in its place.