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The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

  • April 19 – The Bundestag holds its first meeting at the Reichstag building in Berlin (following a redesign by Norman Foster) since 1933.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

thumb|[[London Eye seen from Westminster Bridge]]

  • March – Pero's Bridge in Bristol, England, designed by Eilis O'Connell with Ove Arup & Partners.
  • March 6 – Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia.
  • May 3 – The Venetian Las Vegas, United States (casino resort), designed by KlingStubbins.
  • September 7 – Black Diamond (library) (part of Royal Danish Library) in Copenhagen, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
  • September 14 - Sainsbury's, Greenwich is opened in London, designed by Chetwoods.
  • October – Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, Illinois, designed by Perkins and Will.
  • October 8 – The new Embassy of the United States, Ottawa, Canada, designed by David Childs, is dedicated by President Bill Clinton.
  • December – Burj al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • December 31
  • London Eye, designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield.
  • Millennium Dome in London, designed by Richard Rogers.
  • Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground Jubilee line.

Buildings completed

thumb|upright|[[Burj Al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates]]

thumb|[[Lille Cathedral in France]]

  • Burj Al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by Tom Wright
  • March – Main Tower in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Jewish Museum, Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind.
  • Lille Cathedral in France (Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille), begun in 1854.
  • Palais de Justice de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
  • Town Hall extension, Murcia, Spain, by Rafael Moneo.
  • Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, by Rafael Moneo.
  • Great Court of the British Museum, redesigned by Norman Foster.
  • Maretas Museum, Lanzarote, designed by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue.
  • Millennium Tower in Vienna, Austria.
  • Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Centre, Riversdale, West Cambewarra, New South Wales, Australia, designed by Glenn Murcutt with Reg Lark and Wendy Lewin.
  • Conde Nast Building in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
  • Lloyd's Register building, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
  • 88 Wood Street, London, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
  • Lord's Media Centre in London by Future Systems.
  • Melbourne Museum by architects Denton Corker Marshall, Melbourne, Australia.
  • The Lighthouse (Glasgow), a conversion by Page\Park Architects of John Keppie's offices for The Glasgow Herald, opens as Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the city.
  • Culture House ("Hagymaház" auditorium), Makó, Hungary, designed by Imre Makovecz.
  • Contact Theatre in Manchester, England, rebuilt by Alan Short and Associates.
  • Daimler complex (Linkstraße), Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
  • House at La Clota, Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue.
  • Reconstructed House of the Blackheads in Riga, Latvia.
  • Vistet Fritid (vacation cabin) prototype, Sweden, designed by Thomas Sandell and Anders Landström.
  • University of Warsaw Library, Poland, by Marek Budzyński.
  • Supreme Court of Poland, Poland, by Marek Budzyński.
  • Hundertwasser Toilets, Kawakawa, New Zealand, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Frank Gehry
  • Architecture Firm Award – Perkins and Will
  • Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Philippe Panerai and Nathan Starkman
  • Grand prix national de l'architecture – Massimiliano Fuksas
  • Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Fumihiko Maki
  • Pritzker Architecture Prize – Norman Foster
  • Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France – Jean Nouvel
  • RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Leplastrier
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Barcelona
  • Stirling Prize – Future Systems for Lord's Media Centre, London
  • Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Richard Rogers
  • Twenty-five Year Award – John Hancock Center
  • UIA Gold Medal – Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
  • Vincent Scully Prize – Vincent Scully

Deaths

  • January 14 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch Structuralist architect (born 1918)
  • January 23 – Jay Pritzker, American entrepreneur, founder of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (born 1922)
  • August 15 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design (born 1910)
  • October 3 – Gordon Tait, British architect (born 1912)
  • October 27 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (born 1903)

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