2004 in Architecture - Buildings

Buildings

  • April 28 - 30 St Mary Axe, London (the Swiss Re building), designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
  • May 1 - Europa Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, the tallest building in the Baltic States, is opened.
  • May 8 - Forum Building, by Herzog & de Meuron, inaugurated in Barcelona during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.
  • May 23 - Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.
  • October 9 - Scottish Parliament Building, by Enric Miralles, opened.
  • November 18 - Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, by James Polshek, is opened.
  • November 20 - Expansion and renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
  • November 28 - Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales, is opened.
  • December 14 - Millau Viaduct, by Norman Foster, at Millau, France is opened.
  • December 17 - The Sage Gateshead, a concert hall designed by Foster and Partners, opens in North East England.
  • December 31 - Taipei 101 is opened in Taiwan, and remains one of the tallest buildings in the world.
  • Netherlands Embassy in Berlin opened, designed by Rem Koolhaas.
  • The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China is topped out in a ceremony.
  • 30 Hudson Street, New Jersey, USA (the Goldman Sachs Tower), Jersey City's tallest building at 238 metres, is completed.
  • Reconstruction of Kingswood School, Dulwich, London, by De Rijke Marsh Morgan is completed.

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