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2000s Architecture gathers ArchEyes case studies of buildings completed between 2000 and 2009. The decade includes Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba museum and Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Herzog & de Meuron’s Prada Aoyama and CaixaForum Madrid, OMA’s Prada Epicenter in New York, SANAA’s Toledo Museum Glass Pavilion and Rafael Viñoly’s Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Digital design, new glass and concrete technologies and a growing attention to place and sustainability shaped the period.
Kunsthaus Graz, designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, inserts a free-form contemporary art museum into Graz’s riverfront fabric beside the Mur. Completed in 2003, the building combines a blue…
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and opened in October 2004, is a circular glass building 112.5 meters in…
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Residential & Studio House Lechner inserts a mixed-use dwelling and workplace into Salzburg’s historic center, using a compact vertical organization, planted terraces, and water to reframe dense urban living around…
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Didden Village is a rooftop extension completed in Rotterdam between 2002 and 2006. Set above a monumental townhouse and atelier, the project distributes two-bedroom volumes across a 120-square-meter terrace, transforming…
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Viikki Church by JKMM Architects is a timber parish building in Helsinki’s Eco-Viikki district, completed in 2005 as a civic and spiritual anchor for Latokartano. The project reworks the Finnish…
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The Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is a continuous academic interior on the EPFL campus near Lake Geneva, organized as an undulating concrete landscape rather than a sequence of rooms…
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The Prada Epicenter New York, designed by OMA and completed in 2001 in SoHo, redefined the retail interior as a spatial, cultural, and technological experiment. Inserted into the former Guggenheim…
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Matsudai Cultural Village Center by MVRDV with Super-OS is an elevated cultural building in the mountainous landscape of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, where structure, access, and climate response are compressed into…
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The Bruder Klaus Field Chapel in Mechernich-Wachendorf, Germany, is a 12 m-high rammed-concrete sanctuary by Peter Zumthor, formed as a pale pentagonal mass around a burned-out spruce-log structure. Reached by…
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SANAA’s Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art is a low, square, glass-walled building in Toledo, Ohio, that combines collection galleries, glassmaking workshops, public rooms, and courtyards within a…
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The 4×4 House by Tadao Ando is a four-story concrete tower on the beach at Tarumi, in western Kobe. Completed in 2003 on a site of about 65 m², it…
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Mortuary at Asker Crematorium is a compact funerary addition in Asker, Norway, designed by Carl-Viggo Holmebakk AS between 1999 and 2000. Organized as a tightly sequenced ensemble of ceremony room…
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In Scharans, a rural village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, Valerio Olgiati’s Atelier Bardill reframes the idea of a studio as a walled world composed of three elements: a…
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Kolumba in Cologne sets a new perimeter volume around the ruins of St. Kolumba and the post-war Madonna in the Ruins chapel, binding fragment and city into a single urban…
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