2007 in architecture

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The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• January 20 - Olympic Sculpture Park opens in Seattle, WA., designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
• January 21 - The National Art Center, Tokyo opens, designed by Kisho Kurokawa
• February 28 - Opening of the San Francisco Federal Building, by Morphosis.
• March 8 - Limoges Concert Hall opens in France by Bernard Tschumi Architects.
• March 9 - New Wembley Stadium opens in 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
• August 9 - Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England, by Henning Larsen from Denmark.
• October 17 - BMW Welt ("BMW World") exhibition facility in Munich, Germany, by Coop Himmelb(l)au
• December 1- The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York by SANAA.
• The following buildings are completed in Manchester, England:
  • Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall.
  • Beetham Tower by Ian Simpson.

Events

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

• Arch Moscow exhibition.
• 30 May - The Saitta House of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York built in 1899 was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
• 21 July - Construction of Burj Khalifa surpasses the height of Taipei 101 (510 m) to become the tallest building in the world at 818m.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Edward Larrabee Barnes
• Architecture Firm Award - Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects
• Emporis Skyscraper Award - Het Strijkijzer
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme - Yves Lion
• Mies van der Rohe Prize - Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for the MUSAC in León, Spain
• 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
• Vincent Scully Prize - Witold Rybczynski
• Twenty-five Year Award - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Deaths

• 15 March - Wilson Gifford Combs (b. 1914)
• 20 June - Margaret Helfand (b. 1947)
• 11 August - Wolf Hilbertz (b. 1937)
• 12 October - Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa (b. 1934)
• 30 September - Oswald Mathias Ungers (b. 1926)