2004 in architecture

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The year 2004 in architecture involved some significant events.

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April 28 - 30 St Mary Axe, London (the Swiss Re building), designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
May 1 - Europa Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, the tallest building in the Baltic States, is opened.
May 8 - Forum Building, by Herzog & de Meuron, inaugurated in Barcelona during the opening ceremony of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures.
October 9 - Scottish Parliament Building by Enric Miralles opened.
November 20 - Expansion and renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art designed by Yoshio Taniguchi.
December 14 - Millau Viaduct, by Norman Foster, at Millau, France is opened.
December 31 - Taipei 101, which holds three out of the four records for tallest building in the world, is opened.

The Chongqing World Trade Center in Chongqing, China is topped out in a ceremony.
30 Hudson Street, New Jersey, USA (the Goldman Sachs Tower), Jersey City's tallest building at 238 metres, is completed.

January 28 - Transformation AGO: The Art Gallery of Ontario announces that Frank Gehry has designed a renovation and expansion of the gallery. Supposedly in the shape of an ice skate, the change is met with opposition by frequent benefactor Kenneth Thomson.