2005 in architecture

Events

• May 17 – The renovation and restoration of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology commences with the smashing of the first of the large glass walls, a privilege auctioned on eBay for over $2,500.
• May 20 – The United States Postal Service honors twelve "Masterworks of Modern Architecture" on first class postage stamps.
• October 6–10 – Demolition of the last of the Xanadu Houses.

  Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• January 15 – Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark, designed by Henning Larsen.
• March 5 – The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, designed by Hascher et Jehle.
• April 6 – New facility for the Milan Trade Fair in Milan, Italy, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
• April 14 – Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA.
• April 17 – Expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
• April 28 – The Wynn Las Vegas, designed by Jon Jerde.
• May 10 – Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman.
• May 11 – Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University, Thailand, designed by Architects 49.
• May 30 – Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
• June – Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, designed by Renzo Piano.
• August 27 – The Turning Torso in Malmö, designed by Santiago Calatrava, the tallest building in Sweden and Scandinavia.
• September – Idea Store Whitechapel, London, UK designed by David Adjaye Associates.
• October 15 – New de Young Museum in San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.
• October 17–18 – National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, UK, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
• October 30 – The reconstructed Dresden Frauenkirche, in Dresden, Germany, is consecrated.
• specific date not listed
• *Bloomberg Tower in Manhattan, New York, United States is completed.
• *2 Marsham Street in London, designed by Terry Farrell, is first occupied by the British government department, the Home Office, for whom it was built.
• *Maggie's Centre at Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, a drop-in cancer care centre designed by Page\Park Architects.

  Buildings completed

• date unknown
• *The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China.
• *Chelsea Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• *Q1 Tower in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, the tallest building in Australia.
• *:File:Hortaleza-Edificio Mirador08.jpg|Mirador apartment building in Madrid, Spain, designed by MVRDV and Blanca Lleó.
• *:File:Bibliotek og byarkiv i Tromsø - Library and City Archives.jpg|Tromsø Library and City Archives in Norway, designed by Kjell Beite.
• * in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Josep Llinás.
• *Santa Caterina Market roof in Barcelona, designed by Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue.
• *Antvorskov Church, Slagelse, Denmark, designed by Regnbuen Arkitekter.
• *St. Henry's Chapel, Turku, Finland, designed by Matti Sanaksenaho.
• *Private residences
• **Casa Poli, Concepción, Chile, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
• **Casa Tóló, Lugar das Carvalhinhas, Portugal, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira.
• **Haus Bold, Bad Waldsee, Germany, designed by Thomas Bendel.
• **Light House, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford.

  Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Santiago Calatrava.
• Architecture Firm Award – Murphy/Jahn.
• AIA Twenty-five Year Award – Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut by Louis Kahn.
• Driehaus Architecture Prize – Quinlan Terry
• Emporis Skyscraper Award – Turning Torso by Santiago Calatrava.
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Rem Koolhaas for Netherlands Embassy Berlin
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme – Bernard Reichen.
• LEAF Award, Grand Prix – Henning Larsen Architects for the IT University of Copenhagen
• Mies van der Rohe Prize – Rem Koolhaas for the Dutch Embassy
• Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award – Yoshio Taniguchi
• Pritzker Prize – Thom Mayne, of Morphosis.
• Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent – Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet for the Science Library at Orléans-la-Source.
• RAIA Gold Medal – James Birrell.
• RIAS Award for Architecture – Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Frei Otto.
• Stirling Prize – Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh, designed by EMBT/RMJM.
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Shigeru Ban.
• Vincent Scully Prize – Charles, Prince of Wales.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Yale Center for British Art
• UIA Gold Medal – Tadao Ando.

  Deaths

• January 6 – A. Hays Town, prominent American residential architect based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• January 23 – Richard Feilden OBE, leading UK architect based in Bath
• January 25 – Philip Johnson, influential American architect, first Pritzker Prize honoree
• March 16 – Ralph Erskine, British architect, designer of the Byker Wall
• March 22 – Kenzo Tange, leading Japanese architect, winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize
• June 4 – Giancarlo De Carlo, Italian architect
• December 15 – James Ingo Freed, American architect