US architect Daniel Libeskind designs the City Edge project in Berlin, building it up from startlingly fragmented forms

The 'new and permanent' Parliament House of Australia is completed in Canberra

US architect Frank Gehry builds a strikingly unconventional house for his family in Santa Monica

US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid

Italian architect Renzo Piano completes Kansai airport, on an artificial island in Osaka bay

Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport

The ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, famous for its remains of classical architecture, is captured by the Islamic State (ISIS)