Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 1 – China Central Television Headquarters building in Beijing, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, officially opens.
- January 12 – New Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station officially inaugurated.
- January – Fuglsang Art Museum in Lolland, Denmark, designed by Tony Fretton, inaugurated.
- March 26 – Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport opens, designed by Foster + Partners.
- March 27 – Heathrow Terminal 5, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, opens.
- April 12 – New National Opera House in Oslo opens.
- 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 25 – Chords Bridge ("Bridge of Strings") in Jerusalem, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated.
- 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.
- September
- A. P. Møller School, Schleswig, Germany, designed by C. F. Møller Architects.
- Darwin Centre II, Natural History Museum, London, designed by C. F. Møller Architects. [2]
- September 11 – Ponte della Costituzione in Venice, designed by Santiago Calatrava, inaugurated.
- September 24 – Atlantis The Palm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- September 27 – California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, designed by Renzo Piano.
- October 16 – Weill Hall, Cornell University, designed by Richard Meier [3]
- November – New Ahus, Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, opened. [4]
- 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. [5]
- The Public, West Bromwich, England, designed by Will Alsop, opens first stages to public.
Buildings completed
- January 28 – Beijing National Aquatics Center, known as the "Water Cube", in readiness for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- August 28 – Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China, designed by William Pedersen.
- November – Transformation AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) renovation by Frank Gehry.
- December – Assut de l'Or Bridge in Valencia, Spain, designed by Santiago Calatrava.
- date unknown
- Remodelling of Lumen United Reformed Church in Bloomsbury, London, designed by Theis + Khan Architects. [6]
- Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Bjarke Ingels.
- Linked Hybrid, a nine-tower high-rise housing project by Steven Holl Architects, in Beijing, China.
- 459 West 18th Street, Manhattan, a high-rise condominium designed by Della Valle + Bernheimer.
- Living Shangri-La in Vancouver, Canada
- Torre Caja Madrid (Caja Madrid Tower), Spain, designed by Foster and Partners.
- First Kranhaus in Rheinauhafen, Cologne, Germany, designed by Alfons Linster and Hadi Teherani of BRT Architekten.
- Westside shopping and leisure complex, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
- Olnik Spanu House, Garrison, New York, United States, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza.
- Library and Learning Center of the University of Vienna, by Zaha Hadid
- Moliner House, Zaragoza, Spain, designed by Alberto Campo Baeza.