This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning. One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year.
Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point.
2020s 2026 – The Sagrada Família is expected to be finished. 2025 – Universal Epic Universe opened in Orlando, Florida. 2024 – The Arch of Reunification in North Korea is demolished. 2023 – The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City designed by Studio Gang opened to the public. 2022 – 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is completed. 2021 – Central Park Tower in New York City, the tallest residential building in the world, is completed. 2020 – Torres Obispado in Monterrey, Mexico the tallest skyscraper in Latin America, completed.
2010s 2019 – Notre-Dame fire 2017 – Apple's new headquarters Apple Park, designed by Norman Foster, opened in Cupertino, California. 2016 – MahaNakhon opens in Bangkok, Zaha Hadid dies. 2015 – Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, the tallest building in China and the second-tallest building in the world, gets completed, Charles Correa dies. 2014 – One World Trade Center opens in New York City. 2013 – Gran Torre Santiago is completed in Santiago. 2012 – The Tokyo Skytree opens in Tokyo, The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is open in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Oscar Niemeyer dies. 2011 – Al Hamra Tower, the tallest skyscraper in Kuwait, is completed. 2010 – Burj Khalifa became the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 828 metres (2,717 ft).
2000s 2009 – CityCenter opens on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. This project is the largest privately funded construction project in the history of the United States. 2008 – "Water Cube", "Bird's Nest", South railway station, and other buildings in Beijing, completed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. 2007 – Tarald Lundevall completes the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway. 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower, on the site of the former World Trade Center. 2005 – Casa da Música opens in Porto, Portugal, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas with Office for Metropolitan Architecture. 2004 – 30 St Mary Axe (also known as "the Gherkin" and the Swiss Re Building), designed by Norman Foster, completed in the City of London. 2003 – Taipei 101, designed by C.Y. Lee & Partners the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010 is topped out. 2002 – Simmons Hall dormitory, designed by architect Steven Holl, completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2001 – Jewish Museum Berlin designed by Daniel Libeskind opens to the public. 2000 – The Emirates Towers are both completed in Dubai, The London Eye is open in London.
1990s 1999 – Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed. 1998 – Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, designed by César Pelli completed (world tallest building 1998–2004). Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art by Steven Holl opens to public. 1997 – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao designed by Frank Gehry. Sky Tower (Auckland) completed. 1996 – Oscar Niemeyer completes the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil. 1996 – Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati completed by Peter Eisenman. 1995 – Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel at Seattle University. 1994 – Building of the Basel Signal Box by Herzog and de Meuron 1993 – The Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City, Japan is completed. 1992 – The Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is completed. 1991 – Stansted Airport terminal building in Essex, England, designed by Norman Foster, is completed. 1990 – Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota completed by Frank Gehry.
1980s 1989 – I. M. Pei's pyramid addition to the Louvre is opened. 1988 – MOMA Exhibition called Deconstructivist architecture opens. 1987 – The Riga Radio & TV Tower in Riga, Latvia is completed. 1986 – The Lloyd's Building in London, designed by Richard Rogers, is completed. 1985 – The HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, China by Norman Foster, is completed. 1984 – Philip Johnson's AT&T Building opens in New York City 1983 – Xanadu House in Kissimmee opened. 1982 – Design competition is held for the Parc de la Villette in Paris. 1981 – Richard Serra installs Tilted Arc in the Federal Plaza in New York City. The sculpture is removed in 1989. 1980 – Santa Monica Place constructed by Frank Gehry.
1970s 1979 – Charles Moore designs the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. 1978 – United Nations City in Vienna, Austria is completed. 1977 – The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, is opened. 1976 – The Barbican Estate, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, opens in the City of London. 1976 – The CN Tower in Toronto opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land. 1975 – Completion of the Seoul Tower in Seoul, South Korea. 1974 – National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh is completed. 1973 – The World Trade Center towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, are opened in New York. 1972 – The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, designed by William Pereira, is completed. 1971 – Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson is completed. 1970 – Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill).
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