Buildings
- February 19 – Rose Center for Earth and Space opened in New York City, designed by Polshek Partnership Architects.
- March 8 – Peckham Library in London, designed by Alsop and Störmer, opens to the public. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
- May 12 – Tate Modern in London, a conversion of Bankside Power Station by Herzog & de Meuron opens to the public.
- October 12 – The Lowry theatre and gallery centre in Salford, England, designed by Michael Wilford and Buro Happold, officially opens.
- October 25 – Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial unveiled in Vienna, designed by Rachel Whiteread.
- Emirates Towers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, are completed and open to the public.
- Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is the first building to be completed in the competition between two Saudi princes. The Kingdom Center is completed several months later.
- Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California opened for classes. Designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis.
- Experience Music Project opens in Seattle, designed by Frank Gehry.
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“Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.”
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