2004 in architecture

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The year 2004 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

April 28 - 30 St Mary Axe, London (the Swiss Re building), designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
May 1 - Europa Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, the tallest building in the Baltic States, is opened.
May 8 - Forum Building, by Herzog & de Meuron, inaugurated in Barcelona during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.
May 23 - Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.
October 9 - Scottish Parliament Building, by Enric Miralles, opened.
November 18 - Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, by James Polshek, is opened.
November 20 - Expansion and renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
November 28 - Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales, is opened.
December 14 - Millau Viaduct, by Norman Foster, at Millau, France is opened.
December 17 - The Sage Gateshead, a concert hall designed by Foster and Partners, opens in North East England.
December 31 - Taipei 101 is opened in Taiwan, and remains one of the tallest buildings in the world.
Netherlands Embassy in Berlin opened, designed by Rem Koolhaas.
The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China is topped out in a ceremony.
30 Hudson Street, New Jersey, USA (the Goldman Sachs Tower), Jersey City's tallest building at 238 metres, is completed.
Reconstruction of Kingswood School, Dulwich, London, by De Rijke Marsh Morgan is completed.

January 28 - Transformation AGO: The Art Gallery of Ontario announces that Frank Gehry has designed a renovation and expansion of the gallery. Supposedly in the shape of an ice skate, the change is met with opposition by frequent benefactor Kenneth Thomson.
March 24 - Demolition of the Brutalist Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, England (1966) begins.