2009 in architecture

• March 3 – Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (1971) collapses.
• April 6 – 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in Italy; dome of Santa Maria di Collemaggio collapses for the second time.
• May 26 – Construction work at Louvre Abu Dhabi officially begins.
• October 21 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City celebrates its 50th anniversary (after a three-year restoration effort).
• November – The second World Architecture Festival is held in Barcelona.
• Burj Khalifa is set to open several different times in 2009, and ultimately postponed until 2010.
• The Russia Tower gets cancelled for unknown reasons.
• PLP Architecture founded in London.

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• January – Embassy of the United States, Baghdad, the largest and most expensive embassy in the world, opens.
• January 17 – Copenhagen Concert Hall, designed by Jean Nouvel, opens.

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• January 22 – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, opens to the public.
• January 31 – Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, opens.
• February 15 – Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, inaugurated.
• February 22 – Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City reopens after major renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
• March 7 – Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California, designed by Duncan G. Stroik, is dedicated.
• March 14 – New Cardiff Central Library in St. David's, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Building Design Partnership, opens to the public.
• April 2 – New Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team in the Bronx, designed by Populous (formerly HOK Sport), opens.
• April 13 – Citi Field, new home of the New York Mets baseball team in Queens, opens.
• April 25 – Prada Transformer building in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens.
• April 30 – 300 New Jersey Avenue office building on the mall in Washington, D.C., designed by British architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, opens.

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• May 21 – Museum Brandhorst in Munich, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, opens.
• June 8 – First segment of the High Line Park in Chelsea, Manhattan opens.
• June 12 – Hafod Eryri at the summit of Snowdon in Wales, designed by Ray Hole Architects, is opened.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/8095531.stm|title=£8.4m Snowdon summit cafe opens|work=BBC News|date=2009-06-12|accessdate=2021-11-19}}
• June 21 – New Acropolis Museum in Athens, designed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis, opens to the public.
• July – New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building in Kuching, Malaysia, officially opened.
• August 4 – The Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy Municipality, Norway, designed by Steven Holl, opens.
• August 15 – 41 Cooper Square, the new Cooper Union academic building in New York City, designed by Thom Mayne, has its opening ceremony.
• September 9 – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, new building designed by American architect Steven Holl, opens.

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• September 18 – Liège-Guillemins railway station in Belgium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, has its opening ceremony.
• September 29 – Manitoba Hydro Place in downtown Winnipeg, designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto, opens.
• October 16 – Extensive interior reconstruction of the Neues Museum, Berlin, to the designs of David Chipperfield, is officially opened.
• November 7 – Extensive three-year internal rebuild and expansion of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to the designs of Rick Mather, is completed.
• November 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (gallery) in Nottingham, England, designed by Caruso St John, opens.
• December – Jamieson Place (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta
• December 5 – Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, part of the CityCenter complex in Paradise, Nevada, opens.
• December 16 – The CityCenter urban complex in Paradise, Nevada, designed by Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, opens.
• date unknown – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum library at Humboldt University of Berlin, designed by Max Dudler.

• May 21 – Stanbrook Abbey, Wass, North Yorkshire, England, first stage, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.{{cite news|last1=Dale|first1=Sharon|title=How the building of a North York Moors convent was a modern day miracle|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/how-the-building-of-a-north-york-moors-convent-was-a-modern-day-miracle-1-7834339|work=The Yorkshire Post|date=2016-04-11|accessdate=2022-03-06}}
• May 27 – Cowboys Stadium, new home of the Dallas Cowboys football team, designed by HKS.
• October 21 – Soccer City (FNB Stadium) in Johannesburg, South Africa, host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
• November – MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid.
• November 1 – Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi in the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, designed by Asymptote Architecture of New York.
• December 27 – Darunaman Mosque in northern Thailand.
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• The Cathedral of the Annunciation in Voronezh, Russia.
• Legacy Tower, Chicago, designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz.
• The Tower, Meridian Quay, Swansea, Wales, designed by Latitude Architects.
• Punta della Dogana art museum in Venice, restored by Tadao Ando.
• Woodward's Building in Vancouver, Canada.
• Bateman's Row (home and studio) in Shoreditch, London, designed for themselves by Theis + Khan Architects.{{cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2012/03/08/designed-in-hackney-batemans-row-by-theis-and-khan-architects/|title=Designed in Hackney: Batemans Row by Theis and Khan Architects|first=Amy|last=Frearson|work=dezeen|location=London|date=2012-03-08|accessdate=2020-04-09}}
• Buildings in Spain designed by Alberto Campo Baeza
• "Between Cathedrals", Cádiz.
• MA Museum, Granada.
• Rufo House, Toledo.

• AIA Gold Medal – Glenn Murcutt (Australia)
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Tegnestuen Vandkunsten
• Architecture Firm Award – Olson Kundig Architects
• Driehaus Architecture Prize – Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil{{cite web|title=Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture - Recipients|url=http://architecture.nd.edu/about/driehaus-prize/recipients/|publisher=Notre Dame School of Architecture|accessdate=5 April 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130403083406/http://architecture.nd.edu/about/driehaus-prize/recipients/|archive-date=2013-04-03|url-status=dead}}
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – François Ascher
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Aqua
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – Snøhetta
• Lawrence Israel Prize - Gaetano Pesce
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Zaha Hadid
• Pritzker Prize – Peter Zumthor
• RAIA Gold Medal – Ken Maher
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Álvaro Siza Vieira
• Stirling Prize – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for Maggie's Centre, London{{cite web |url=https://www.maggiescentres.org/about-maggies/news-and-publications/latest-news/ |title=Latest news |website=Maggie's Centres |access-date=2024-10-18 |archive-date=2019-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190409200851/https://www.maggiescentres.org/about-maggies/news-and-publications/latest-news/ |url-status=dead}}
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Robert Irwin.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Faneuil Hall Marketplace
• Vincent Scully Prize – Christopher Alexander

• January 14 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect (born 1937)
• February 3 – Earl Flansburgh, Boston architect (born 1931){{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Robert |title=Earl Flansburgh; architect designed education facilities |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/443972905 |accessdate=26 August 2018 |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=18 February 2009}}
• February 23 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (born 1924)
• July 9 – H. T. Cadbury-Brown, English architect (born 1913)
• July 15 – Julius Shulman, California architectural photographer (born 1910)
• August 3 – Charles Gwathmey, American architect (born 1938)
• August 16 – Mualla Eyüboğlu, one of the first female Turkish architects{{cite news|title=Good Morning --Turkey Press Scan on Aug 17|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=good-morning--turkey-press-scan-on-aug-17-2009-08-17|work=Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review|date=2009-08-17|accessdate=2009-09-01}} (born 1919)
• November 27 – Maxwell M. Kalman, Québécois architect (born 1906)
• December 8 – Claude Vasconi, French architect (born 1940)

• Timeline of architecture

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