2008 in architecture

• February 10–11 – 2008 Namdaemun fire: The wooden superstructure of the 550-year-old Namdaemun gate in Seoul (South Korea) is destroyed by arson.
• June 20 – The Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 comes into force in the UK.
• July 8 – The first in Francesco da Mosto's television series Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage is broadcast.
• October 2 – The William L. Slayton House, designed by I. M. Pei in 1958, is listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2008-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf

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• October – The inaugural World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.

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• 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.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7594295.stm|title=Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2009-01-20|date=2008-09-02}}
• 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{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Jennifer |title=Weill Hall and institute dedicated in celebration of 'an icon for our future' |url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/10/cutting-dna-celebrates-weill-hall-dedication |accessdate=September 25, 2018 |publisher=Cornell University |date=October 17, 2008}}
• November – New Ahus, Akershus University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, designed by C. F. Møller Architects, opened.{{cite web|url=http://www.estatemedia.no/Nyheter/articlefullview.aspx?ind=Y&aid=678|title=Frisk arkitektur med symptomer|publisher=Estate Nyheter|accessdate=January 20, 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109004414/http://www.estatemedia.no/Nyheter/ArticleFullView.aspx?ind=Y&aid=678|archivedate=January 9, 2009}}
• 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.{{cite news|title=Qatar's Islamic Art Museum to open Nov. '08|date=January 23, 2008|publisher=Kuwait News Agency|url=http://www.kuna.net.kw/newsagenciespublicsite/ArticleDetails.aspx?Language=en&id=1878730|accessdate=September 12, 2008}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• The Public, West Bromwich, England, designed by Will Alsop, opens first stages to public.

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• 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.
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• Remodelling of Lumen United Reformed Church in Bloomsbury, London, designed by Theis + Khan Architects.{{cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2008/12/12/lumen-united-reformed-church-by-theis-and-khan-architects/|title=Lumen United Reformed Church by Theis and Khan Architects|first=Rose|last=Etherington|work=dezeen|location=London|date=December 12, 2008|accessdate=April 9, 2020}}
• 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.

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Richard Meier
• AIA Gold Medal – Renzo Piano (Italy)
• Architecture Firm Award – KieranTimberlake Associates
• Driehaus Architecture Prize – Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – David Mangin
• Lawrence Israel Prize – AvroKO
• LEAF Award, Grand Prix – schmidt hammer lassen for Performers House
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Peter Zumthor
• Pritzker Prize – Jean Nouvel
• Rome Prize for architecture – Frederick B. Fisher
• RAIA Gold Medal – Richard Johnson
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Edward Cullinan
• Stirling Prize – Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington for Accordia housing development, Cambridge{{cite news |last=Glancey |first=Jonathan |date=13 October 2008 |title=Stirling prize 2008: At last, homes |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2008/oct/12/stirling-prize-accordia-architecture |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 October 2024}}
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Gro Harlem Brundtland
• Twenty-five Year Award – The Atheneum
• UIA Gold Medal – Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
• Vincent Scully Prize – Robert A. M. Stern

• January 1 – Harald Deilmann, German architect (born 1920)
• January 30 – Fernando Higueras, Spanish architect (born 1930)
• February 9 – Carm Lino Spiteri, Maltese architect and politician (born 1932){{cite news |title=Ċumpaqq passes away |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 |work=Times of Malta |date=February 10, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721134854/https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 |archivedate=July 21, 2020}}
• March 5 – Nader Khalili, Iranian architect, writer, and humanitarian (born 1936)
• March 24 – Victor Christ-Janer, American modernist architect (born 1915)
• March 29 – Ralph Rapson, American architect (born 1914)
• March 31 – David Todd, American architect (born 1915)
• May 30 – Rodney Gordon, English architect (born 1933)
• June 15 – Walter Netsch, American architect (born 1920)
• July 6 – George Tibbits, Australian composer and architect (born 1933)
• September 18 – Abdur Rahman Hye, Pakistani architect (born 1919)
• November 14 – Sir Bernard Feilden, English conservation architect (born 1919)
• November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (born 1918)

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