1999 in architecture

Events

• April 19 – The Bundestag holds its first meeting at the Reichstag building in Berlin since 1933.

  Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• 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, designed by KlingStubbins.
• September 7 – Black Diamond in Copenhagen, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects.
• 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

• 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, begun in 1854.
• Palais de Justice de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
• :File:Murcia CathedralSquare1.jpg|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, 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.
• :File:Hagymaház in Makó.JPG|Culture House, Makó, Hungary, designed by Imre Makovecz.
• Contact Theatre in Manchester, England, rebuilt by Alan Short and Associates.
• :File:Berlin, Tiergarten Potsdamer Platz, Linkstrasse 2, 4, Wohn-, Geschaefts- und Buerohaeuser.jpg|Daimler complex, 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 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.

  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, Lord's Media Centre.
• 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
• January 23 – Jay Pritzker, US entrepreneur, founder of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
• August 15 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design
• October 3 – Gordon Tait, British architect
• October 27 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer