2009 in architecture

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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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.^[1]
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.

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.

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