Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 26 – Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, designed by Toyo Ito. [4]
- March 11 – National Museum of Australia in Canberra, designed by Howard Raggatt [5]
- March 17 – Eden Project, St Austell, Cornwall, UK, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
- April – Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK, designed by Wilkinson Eyre. It wins this year's Stirling Prize.
- May 4
- Milwaukee Art Museum opens the Quadracci Pavilion, the first completed American project by Santiago Calatrava.
- Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque opens in Muscat, Oman.
- June 28 – Gehry Tower (designed by Frank Gehry) in Hanover, Germany.
- June 30 – National Space Centre, Leicester, England, by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
- September 9
- Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, Berlin, Germany. [6]
- National Museum of Ireland's Museum of Country Life, Turlough, County Mayo, designed by Des Byrne of Architecture Services, Office of Public Works, is opened.
- September 17 – Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a pedestrian tilt bridge for spanning the River Tyne, UK, designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford. It wins the 2002 Stirling Prize.
- September 23 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan (Armenian Apostolic Church), designed by Stepan Kurkchyan.
- November – Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, constructed to host the Academy Awards. [7]
- November 15 – Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada, USA, designed by The Jerde Partnership.
- November 21 – Cologne Tower inaugurated; designed by Kohl & Kohl and Jean Nouvel.
- December 10 – Puente de la Mujer, a pedestrian swing cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge spanning a dock in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated.
- December 11 – American Folk Art Museum in New York City, USA, inaugurated; designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
- date unknown
- Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg [8]
- Neue Galerie New York, opened in the William Starr Miller House, New York City, United States.
Buildings completed
- October 30 – Redevelopment of Gasometer, Vienna, by Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Manfred Wehdorn and Wilhelm Holzbauer is completed. [9]
- date unknown
- 88 Wood Street office building, City of London, by Richard Rogers.
- Caja General de Ahorros, Granada, by Alberto Campo Baeza.
- Betty and Gordon Moore Library in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), UK, designed by Edward Cullinan Architects.
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt [10]
- DG Bank building in Berlin, Germany, by Frank Gehry. [11]
- Telekom Tower building, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- One Wall Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, by architects Perkins+Will Canada.
- Ku’damm-Eck (office building) in Berlin, Germany, by Gerkan, Marg und Partner.
- Neues Kranzler Eck (office building) in Berlin, Germany, by Helmut Jahn.
- Tower 2000, the first building in the Moscow International Business Centre, Russia.
- Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway (officially completed) [12]
- Exhibition building at Scotland's National Museum of Rural Life completed by Page\Park Architects.
- Building D, Giudecca, Venice, by Cino Zucchi.
- Jacobs Ladder (house) at Chinnor, England, by Niall McLaughlin Architects.