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The year 1999 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

The London Eye seen from Westminster Bridge

• Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind is completed.
• Great Court of the British Museum is redesigned by Norman Foster.
• Millennium Dome in London, designed by Richard Rogers, is completed.
• Reichstag building in Berlin, redesigned by Norman Foster, is reopened.
• The new Embassy of the United States in Ottawa designed by David Childs is opened
• The Burj al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is completed and opened.
• The Conde Nast Building in Manhattan, New York City, United States is completed.
• The Maintower in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is completed.
• The Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground Jubilee line is completed, featuring innovative and widely acclaimed station design.
• The London Eye, designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield opens to the public.
• Melbourne Museum by architects Denton Corker Marshall is completed in Melbourne

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Frank Gehry.
• Architecture Firm Award - Perkins and Will.
• Grand Prix de l'urbanisme - Philippe Panerai and Nathan Starkman.
• Grand prix national de l'architecture - Massimiliano Fuksas.
• Pritzker Prize - Norman Foster.
• Prix de l'Académie d'Architecture de France - Jean Nouvel.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Richard Leplastrier.
• Royal Gold Medal - Barcelona.
• Stirling Prize - Future Systems, Media Centre at Lord's.
• Vincent Scully Prize - Vincent Scully.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

Deaths

• January 23 - Jay A. Pritzker (born 1922)
• August 15 - Hugh Casson (born 1910)
• Aldo van Eyck (born 1918)