2007 in architecture

none May 2012 2007 architecture December 2025 The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events May 30 – The Saitta House at Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York built in 1899 is added to the National Register of Historic Places.“Saitta House – Report Part 1" https://web.archive.org/web/20081216233832/http://www.dykerheightscivicassociation.com/saittareport.pdf December 16, 2008 DykerHeightsCivicAssociation.com June 26 – The Museum of the History of Polish Jews groundbreaking ceremony is held in Warsaw. The building is completed in 2013. July 21 – Construction of Burj Khalifa surpasses the height of Taipei 101 (510 m) to become the tallest building in the world at 818m. Buildings and structures thumb|The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan thumb|Pakistan Monument in Islamabad, Pakistan thumb|BMW Welt in Munich, Germany Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2007 Buildings opened January 20 – Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA., USA, designed by Weiss/Manfredi. January 21 – The National Art Center, Tokyo, designed by Kisho Kurokawa. February 28 – San Francisco Federal Building, by Morphosis. March 8 – Limoges Concert Hall, France, by Bernard Tschumi Architects. March 9 – New Wembley Stadium, London (original stadium demolished in 2002). March 23 – Pakistan Monument, Islamabad, designed by Arif Masoud. April 25 – IAC/InterActiveCorp headquarters opens in New York, by Gehry Partners. May 27 – St Bede's Church, Basingstoke, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Maguire and Murray. June 2 – Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, designed by Daniel Libeskind. June 9 – Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. by Steven Holl Architects. June – Pawilon Wyspiański 2000, Kraków, Poland, by Krzysztof Ingarden. June–July – East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton, England, by Thomas Heatherwick.https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2007/06/06/Sophie-Murray-on-opening-the-East-Beach-Cafe-in-Littlehampton Sophie Murray on opening the East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton bighospitality.co.uk August – La Vicaria Arch Bridge in Spain. August 9 – Roland Levinsky Building at the University of Plymouth, Devon, England, by Henning Larsen. September 16 – Hull Paragon Interchange (railway station reconstruction), Kingston upon Hull, England, designed by WilkinsonEyre. October – Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by David Adjaye. October 12 – Armed Forces Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, England, by Liam O'Connor Architects and Planning Consultants. October 17 – BMW Welt ("BMW World") exhibition facility in Munich, Germany, by Coop Himmelb(l)au. November 3 – Digital Beijing Building in China, by Pei Zhu. December 1 – The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, by SANAA. December 10 – Inauguration of Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles' major reconstruction as a transportation interchange in France. Buildings completed thumb|The FiftyTwoDegrees in Nijmegen, Netherlands Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall. Beetham Tower, Manchester by Ian Simpson. Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary, Alberta Kolumba (diocesan art museum) in Cologne, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor. Tama Art University Library, Hachiōji campus in Tokyo, designed by Toyo Ito. Wachendorf-Feldkapelle-Bruder-Klaus, Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor. FiftyTwoDegrees in Nijmegen, designed by Mecanoo. Fontana Boathouse, West Side Rowing Club, Buffalo, New York, based on a 1905 plan by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Lighthouse, Watford, Britain's first zero-carbon house, designed by Sheppard Robson. Albury Library Museum, designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. Sunken House, De Beauvoir Town, north London, designed by David Adjaye.Sunken House https://www.adjaye.com/work/sunken-house/ David Adjaye Associates website David Adjaye Associates 31 December 2025 Exhibitions Arch Moscow Awards AIA Gold Medal – Edward Larrabee Barnes Architecture Firm Award – Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects BNA Building of the Year (nl) - Vesteda Tower Driehaus Architecture Prize – Jaquelin T. RobertsonDriehaus Prize for Classical Architecture - Recipients http://architecture.nd.edu/about/driehaus-prize/recipients/ Notre Dame School of Architecture 5 April 2014 https://archive.today/20130403083406/http://architecture.nd.edu/about/driehaus-prize/recipients/ April 3, 2013 dead mdy-all Emporis Skyscraper Award – Het Strijkijzer European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Yves Lion Mies van der Rohe Prize – Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos for the MUSAC in León, Spain Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Herzog & de Meuron Pritzker Prize – Richard Rogers RAIA Gold Medal – Enrico Taglietti RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Herzog & de Meuron Stirling Prize – David Chipperfield Architects for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckarhttps://www.dezeen.com/2007/10/06/david-chipperfield-wins-stirling-prize/ David Chipperfield wins Stirling Prize Fairs Marcus 6 October 2007 Dezeen.com 19 October 2024 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Zaha Hadid Twenty-five Year Award – Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vincent Scully Prize – Witold Rybczynski Deaths May 14 – Sir Colin St John Wilson, English architect (born 1922)Ray Nicholas 2007-05-16 Sir Colin St John Wilson https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/16/guardianobituaries.obituaries 2025-08-12 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077 June 26 – Lucien Hervé, French architectural photographer (born 1910)December 2025 June 20 – Margaret Helfand, American architect and urban planner based in Manhattan (born 1947; colon cancer)https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/3771-margaret-helfand-noted-female-architect-dies-at-59 Margaret Helfand, Noted Female Architect, Dies at 59 Stephens Suzanne Architectural Record June 26, 2007 August 10, 2019 August 11 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (born 1938)December 2025 September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German rationalist architect and architectural theorist (born 1926)Kreativität im Quadrat: Architekt Oswald Ungers gestorben Der Spiegel 4 October 2007 https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/kreativitaet-im-quadrat-architekt-oswald-ungers-gestorben-a-509436.html de 11 October 2023 October 12 – Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa, Japanese architect and co-founder of the Metabolist Movement (born 1934)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2725285.ece Kisho Kurokawa The Times 24 October 2007 31 December 2025 May 24, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110524040020/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2725285.ece dead October 21 – Jorge Arango, Colombian-born American minimalist architect (born 1917)December 2025 See also Timeline of architecture References 2 Category:21st-century architecture