The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed.
- Great Court of the British Museum is redesigned by Norman Foster.
- Millennium Dome in London, designed by Richard Rogers, is completed.
- Reichstag building in Berlin, redesigned by Norman Foster, is reopened.
- The new Embassy of the United States in Ottawa designed by David Childs is opened
- The Burj al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is completed and opened.
- The Conde Nast Building in Manhattan, New York City, United States is completed.
- The Maintower in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is completed.
- The Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground Jubilee line is completed, featuring innovative and widely acclaimed station design.
- The London Eye, designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield opens to the public.
- Melbourne Museum by architects Denton Corker Marshall is completed in Melbourne
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