page_title: 2011 in architecture
section_title: Buildings opened
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 in architecture / Buildings and structures / Buildings opened
caption_attribution_description: Español: Soumaya FREE Fernando Romero EnterprisE photo by Javier Hinojosa
context_page_description: The year 2011 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
context_section_description: January 11 – Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, designed by HOK.
  January 21 – Museum of Old and New Art, on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, designed by Nonda Katsalidis.
  January 25 – New World Center, home of the New World Symphony Orchestra, at Miami Beach, Florida, designed by Frank Gehry.
  February 10 — The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
  February 28 – Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, designed by Fernando Romero.
  March 1 – Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, England, designed by Gifford and Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
  April 16 – Turner Contemporary art gallery, in Margate, Kent, England, designed by David Chipperfield.
  May 1 – New Lyric Theatre, Belfast, designed by O'Donnell & Tuomey of Dublin.
  May 21 – The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery, West Yorkshire, England, designed by David Chipperfield.
  May 31 – Ponte della Musica-Armando Trovajoli across the Tiber in Rome, Italy, designed by BuroHappold Engineering and Powell-Williams Architects.
  June – Windmill Hill archive centre, Waddesdon, England, designed by Stephen Marshall.
  June 16 – Gothenburg Mosque, Sweden.
  June 20 – Riverside Museum, the new development of the Glasgow Museum of Transport in Scotland, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.
  June 25 – Peace Bridge across the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
  July 19 – New Museum of Liverpool, at Liverpool Pier Head, England, designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold.
  August 27 – Rustavi Sioni, church in Rustavi, Georgia, designed by Besarion Menabde, Nikoloz Abashidze and Nikolos Dadiani (consecration date).
  September – firstsite new art gallery, Colchester, England, designed by Rafael Viñoly.
  September 11 – National September 11 Memorial, Reflecting Absence, on the World Trade Center site in New York City, USA, designed by architect Michael Arad with landscape architect Peter Walker (dedication date).
  September 13 – Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, Stratford, London.
  October 12 – Royal Opera House Muscat opens in Muscat, Oman.
  October 20 — The Human Ecology Building at Cornell University is dedicated. Designed by Gruzen-Samton Architects (IBI Group).
  December 21 – Capital Gate skyscraper hotel and office building, in Abu Dhabi.
caption: Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, Mexico
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