2000 in architecture explained

The year 2000 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

June 22 – The Architect company Snøhetta wins the international Architect competition for Oslo's New National Opera House.^[1]
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Greenwich Millennium Village in London designed by Ralph Erskine.

February 19 – Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City, USA, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects.
March 8 – Peckham Library in London, UK, designed by Alsop and Störmer. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
May 12 – Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron.
October 12 – The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England, designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold.
August – Centro Brasileiro Britânico in São Paulo, designed by Marc Rabin.
August 19 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia, reconstructed to Konstantin Thon's 1832 design, is dedicated.
October 25 – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial unveiled in Vienna, designed by Rachel Whiteread.
November 13 – Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe in Valencia, Spain, with façade designed by Santiago Calatrava.
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- Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn.
- Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California, USA, designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis.
- Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, USA, designed by Frank Gehry.
- Sibelius Hall in Lahti, Finland, designed by Kimmo Lintula and Hannu Tikka.

May 14 – Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by Foster and Partners, the first building to be completed in a competition between two Saudi princes; the Kingdom Centre is completed in 2002.
Bankers Hall West in Calgary, Alberta, designed by Cohos Evamy.
Montevetro (apartments), Battersea Reach, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.

January 18 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect in the Nazi Resistance movement (born 1897)^[2]
February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist and architect (born 1928)
July 3 – Enric Miralles, Spanish architect (born 1955)
July 29 – Eladio Dieste, Uruguayan engineer and architect (born 1917)