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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2001}} ===Buildings opened=== [[Image:Milwaukee Art Museum 1 (Mulad).jpg| thumb| [[Milwaukee Art Museum]]]] [[Image:Gateshead millennium bridge open.jpg|thumb| Gateshead Millennium Bridge]] *[[January 26]] – [[Sendai Mediatheque]], Japan, designed by [[Toyo Ito]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://steelexplained.com/day-293-365-of-steel-sendai-mediatheque/|title=Day 293/365 of Steel – Sendai Mediatheque|website=Steel Explained|date=January 8, 2024 |access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> *[[March 11]] – [[National Museum of Australia]] in [[Canberra]], designed by [[Howard Raggatt]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nma.gov.au/about/history|title=History of Our Museum|website=NMA|access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> *[[March 17]] – [[Eden Project]], [[St Austell]], [[Cornwall]], UK, designed by [[Nicholas Grimshaw|Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners]]. * April – [[Magna Science Adventure Centre]], [[Rotherham]], [[Yorkshire]], UK, designed by [[Wilkinson Eyre]]. It wins this year's [[Stirling Prize]]. *[[May 4]] **[[Milwaukee Art Museum]] opens the Quadracci Pavilion, the first completed American project by [[Santiago Calatrava]]. **[[Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque]] opens in [[Muscat, Oman|Muscat]], [[Oman]]. *[[June 28]] – [[Gehry Tower]] (designed by [[Frank Gehry]]) in [[Hanover]], Germany. *[[June 30]] – [[National Space Centre]], [[Leicester]], England, by [[Nicholas Grimshaw|Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners]]. *[[September 9]] **[[Jewish Museum, Berlin|Jewish Museum]], designed by [[Daniel Libeskind]], [[Berlin]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web|work=Jewish Museum Berlin|title=A Perfectly Normal Museum?|url=http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/01-Architecture/00-architecture.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209185631/http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/01-Architecture/00-architecture.php|archive-date=9 December 2014}}</ref> **[[National Museum of Ireland]]'s [[Museum of Country Life]], [[Turlough, County Mayo]], designed by Des Byrne of Architecture Services, [[Office of Public Works]], is opened. *[[September 17]] – [[Gateshead Millennium Bridge]], a pedestrian [[tilt bridge]] for spanning the [[River Tyne]], UK, designed by architects [[Wilkinson Eyre]] and structural engineers [[Gifford (company)|Gifford]]. It wins the 2002 [[Stirling Prize]]. *[[September 23]] – [[Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan]] ([[Armenian Apostolic Church]]), designed by Stepan Kurkchyan. *November – [[Kodak Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], constructed to host the [[Academy Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Swed |first=Mark |date=2001-11-12 |title=A Tin Ear for Acoustics at New Kodak Theatre |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-12-ca-3191-story.html |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> *[[November 15]] – [[Palms Casino Resort]] in [[Paradise, Nevada]], USA, designed by [[Jon Jerde|The Jerde Partnership]]. *[[November 21]] – [[KölnTurm|Cologne Tower]] inaugurated; designed by Kohl & Kohl and [[Jean Nouvel]]. *[[December 10]] – [[Puente de la Mujer]], a pedestrian swing [[cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge]] spanning a dock in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, designed by [[Santiago Calatrava]], inaugurated. *[[December 11]] – [[American Folk Art Museum]] in [[New York City]], USA, inaugurated; designed by [[Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects]]. *''date unknown'' **[[Apartheid Museum]] in [[Johannesburg]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apartheidmuseum.org/|title=About Us|website=Apartheid Museum|access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> **[[Neue Galerie New York]], opened in the [[William Starr Miller House]], New York City, United States. ===Buildings completed=== [[File:Gasometer in Wien 2013 4.jpg|thumb|The [[Gasometer, Vienna]], Austria]] [[File:Nidaros Cathedral Trondheim.JPG|thumb|[[Nidaros Cathedral]] in [[Trondheim]], Norway]] *[[October 30]] – Redevelopment of [[Gasometer, Vienna]], by [[Jean Nouvel]], [[Coop Himmelb(l)au]], [[Manfred Wehdorn]] and [[Wilhelm Holzbauer]] is completed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Industrial Renovation: The Gasometers of Vienna |url=http://twistedsifter.com/2009/10/gasometers-of-vienna/ |date=2009-10-06 |accessdate=2012-02-24 |work=Twisted Sifter |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225070743/http://twistedsifter.com/2009/10/gasometers-of-vienna/ |archivedate=February 25, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> *''date unknown'' **[[88 Wood Street]] office building, [[City of London]], by [[Richard Rogers]]. **[[:File:Caja Granada Fotógrafo- Hisao Suzuki.jpg|Caja General de Ahorros]], [[Granada]], by [[Alberto Campo Baeza]]. **Betty and Gordon Moore Library in the [[Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge)]], UK, designed by [[Edward Cullinan]] Architects. **[[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]] in [[Alexandria]], Egypt<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://structurae.net/en/structures/bibliotheca-alexandrina|title=Bibliotheca Alexandrina|access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> **[[DZ Bank building|DG Bank building]] in [[Berlin]], Germany, by [[Frank Gehry]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Interior Spaces: Space, Light, Materials|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2012|page=14}}</ref> **[[Telekom Tower]] building, in [[Kuala Lumpur]], Malaysia. **[[One Wall Centre]] opens in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada, by architects [[Perkins+Will|Perkins+Will Canada]]. **[[:de:Ku’damm-Eck|Ku’damm-Eck]] (office building) in [[Berlin]], Germany, by [[:de:Gerkan, Marg und Partner|Gerkan, Marg und Partner]]. **Neues Kranzler Eck (office building) in Berlin, Germany, by [[Helmut Jahn]]. **[[Tower 2000]], the first building in the [[Moscow International Business Centre]], Russia. **[[Nidaros Cathedral]], [[Trondheim]], Norway (officially completed)<ref>Ekroll, Øystein Nidaros Cathedral: The West Front Sculptures (Trondheim Nidarosdomen. 2006) {{ISBN|978-8276930634}}</ref> **Exhibition building at [[Scotland]]'s [[National Museum of Rural Life]] completed by [[Page\Park Architects]]. **Building D, [[Giudecca]], [[Venice]], by Cino Zucchi. **Jacobs Ladder (house) at [[Chinnor]], England, by [[Niall McLaughlin Architects]].
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