Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 15 – Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen.
- March 5 – The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Hascher et Jehle.
- April 6 – New facility for the Milan Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
- April 14 – Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA. [1]
- April 17 – Expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. [2]
- April 28 – The Wynn Las Vegas, designed by Jon Jerde.
- May 10 – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman.
- May 11 – Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, Thailand, designed by Architects 49.
- May 30 – Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
- June – Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Renzo Piano.
- July 22 – Tower of St Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds, England.
- August 27 – The Turning Torso in Malmö, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the tallest building in Sweden and Scandinavia (2005–present).
- September – Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK designed by David Adjaye Associates.
- October 8 – Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia, designed by Santiago Calatrava.
- October 15 – New de Young Museum in San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
- October 17–18 – National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
- October 30 – The reconstructed Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, is consecrated.
- specific date not listed
- Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, New York, United States is completed.
- 2 Marsham Street in London, designed by Terry Farrell, is first occupied by the British government department, the Home Office, for whom it was built.
- Maggie's Centre at Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Page\Park Architects.
Buildings completed
- date unknown
- The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China.
- Chelsea Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Q1 Tower in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, the tallest building in Australia (2005–present).
- Mirador apartment building in Madrid, Spain, designed by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó.
- Tromsø Library and City Archives in Norway, designed by Kjell Beite.
- Jaume Fuster Library in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Josep Llinás.
- Santa Caterina Market roof in Barcelona, designed by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue.
- Antvorskov Church, Slagelse, Denmark, designed by Regnbuen Arkitekter.
- St. Henry's Chapel, Turku, Finland, designed by Matti Sanaksenaho.
- Private residences
- Casa Poli, Concepción, Chile, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. [3]
- Casa Tóló, Lugar das Carvalhinhas, Portugal, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira. [4]
- Haus Bold, Bad Waldsee, Germany, designed by Thomas Bendel. [5]
- Light House, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford. [6]