2007 in architecture

• May 30 – The Saitta House at Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York built in 1899 is added to the National Register of Historic Places. • 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==

, Japan in Islamabad, Pakistan in Munich, Germany 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. • 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==

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. ==Exhibitions==

• 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. Robertson • 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 Neckar • 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) • June 26 – Lucien Hervé, French architectural photographer (born 1910) • June 20 – Margaret Helfand, American architect and urban planner based in Manhattan (born 1947; colon cancer) • August 11 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (born 1938) • September 30 – Oswald Mathias Ungers, German rationalist architect and architectural theorist (born 1926) • October 12 – Kisho Noriaki Kurokawa, Japanese architect and co-founder of the Metabolist Movement (born 1934) • October 21 – Jorge Arango, Colombian-born American minimalist architect (born 1917) ==See also==