Timeline Of Architecture

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.

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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.
*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, 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 .

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) – 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).

1960s

*1969 – Fernsehturm Berlin opens. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius die.
*1968 – Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin finished.
*1967 – Expo 67 in Montreal features the American pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, and the Habitat 67 housing complex designed by Moshe Safdie.
*1966 – The Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is finished in St. Louis, Missouri.
*1965 – NASA's Cape Canaveral VAB, the Niagara Skylon Tower, Philadelphia's LOVE Park, the Tel Aviv Shalom Meir tower and the Salk Institute all open.
*1964 – The Unisphere heads New York World's Fair.
*1963 – The Palace of Assembly at Chandigarh, India, is finished.
*1962 – Orinda Orinda House & by Charles W. Moore is completed.
*1962 – Seattle Space needle & TWA Terminal by Saarinen at JFK are opened.
*1961 – Louis Kahn finishes the Richards Medical Building at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
*1960 – Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer plan buildings of Brasilia, new capital of Brazil. The Television Centre for the BBC
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