Buildings

*May 12 - Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron opens to the public.
*The Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates are completed and open to the public.
*The Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is the first building to be completed in the competition between two Saudi princes. The Kingdom Center was completed several months later.

Awards

*Grand Prix de l'urbanisme - Alexandre Chemetoff
*Pritzker Prize - Rem Koolhaas
*Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent - Philippe Gazeau
*Stirling Prize - Alsop & Störmer, Peckham Library

Births

Deaths

* January 18 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (born 1897)
* February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser (born 1928)
* July 3 - Enric Miralles (born 1955)
* Eladio Dieste (born 1917)

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