21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings
To kick off 2025, Dezeen is naming the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century so far in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series.
Over the next 25 days we will feature the 25 buildings that had the most impact on architecture from the first quarter of the 21st century.
The Dezeen team selected a single building from each year of the 21st century so far, starting today with Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Modern art gallery in London from the year 2000.
Following Tate Modern, we will be publishing one building a day throughout January alongside an illustration of each structure created for Dezeen by Jack Bedford.
Overall, we hope the 25 buildings will provide an overview of the key buildings, architecture trends and studios of the first quarter of the 21st century.
Each of the buildings was chosen as we believed it was the most significant completed in that year. Of course, this is a subjective choice and with only one building from each year, we will have missed some hugely important structures.
We invite you to let us know if we made the right decision for each year in the comments. Once all 25 buildings have been revealed, we will run a poll to determine the overall most significant building of the 21st century so far.
21st Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings
2000: Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron
2001: Gando Primary School by Diébédo Francis Kéré
2002: Bergisel Ski Jump by Zaha Hadid
2003: Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry
2004: Quinta Monroy by Elemental
2005: Moriyama House by Ryue Nishizawa
2006: Madrid-Barajas airport by RSHP and Estudio Lamela
2007: Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta
2008: Museum of Islamic Art by IM Pei
2009: Murray Grove by Waugh Thistleton Architects
2010: Burj Khalifa by SOM
2011: National September 11 Memorial by Handel Architects
2012: CCTV Headquarters by OMA
2013: Cardboard Cathedral by Shigeru Ban
2014: Bosco Verticale by Stefano Boeri
2015: UTEC Lima campus by Grafton Architects
This list will be updated as the series progresses.