2008 in Architecture - Buildings

Buildings

  • January 1 – China Central Television Headquarters building, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens in Beijing
  • January 12 – New Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station officially inaugurated.
  • January 28 – Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the "Water Cube", completed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • March 26 – Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport opens, designed by Foster + Partners.
  • March 27 – London Heathrow Terminal 5 opens, by the Richard Rogers Partnership, now Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
  • April 12 – New National Opera House opens in Oslo.
  • April – Maggie's Centre in London, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens (Stirling Prize 2009).
  • June – Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened.
  • June 28 – Beijing National Stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron (known as the "Bird's Nest"), opened for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • August 1 – Beijing South Railway Station designed by Terry Farrell, opened.
  • August 28 – Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China, designed by William Pedersen, completed.
  • September 27 – California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, designed by Renzo Piano, opened.
  • November – Transformation AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) renovation by Frank Gehry is completed.
  • November 11 – Curve (theatre) in Leicester, England, designed by Rafael Viñoly, is opened.
  • November 20 – Peter B. Lewis Library at Princeton University, by Frank Gehry, officially dedicated.
  • November 22 – Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, in Qatar, designed by I. M. Pei, is officially opened.
  • Mountain Dwellings, designed by Bjarke Ingels, is completed in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Linked Hybrid, a nine-tower high-rise housing project by Steven Holl Architects, is completed in Beijing, China.
  • Torre Caja Madrid (Caja Madrid Tower) completed in Spain, designed by Foster and Partners.
  • Westside shopping and leisure complex in Bern, Switzerland, designed by Daniel Libeskind, completed.

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