World Architecture Day 7 Oct 2024

World Architecture Day

Build your excitement—it"s World Architecture Day. Initiated by the International Union of Architects in 1985, this day is celebrated on the first Monday of October. Today"s image features the Elbphilharmonie on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, this concert hall is a modern architectural marvel perched atop an old brick warehouse from 1963. A centrepiece of the new Hafencity development, it"s Hamburg"s tallest inhabited building—there are 45 luxury apartments on the upper floors—reaching a height of 114 metres.

© Canetti/Shutterstock

palette

Today in History

An old bridge in a new light
7 Oct 2023Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA
7 Oct 2025Autumn colours below Mount Sneffels near Ridgway, Colorado, United States

More Desktop Wallpapers:

3 Nov 2025World Jellyfish Day
1 Jun 2025World Reef Awareness Day
1 Mar 2025Saint Davids Day
7 Apr 2025Happy International Beaver Day!
What are these predators doing?
12 Nov 2025Colosseum, Rome, Italy
15 Nov 2025Irohazaka Road in autumn, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan
16 May 2025Endangered Species Day
13 Jul 2025International Rock Day
4 Nov 2025Tower Bridge, London
28 Nov 2023Giving Tuesday
20 Nov 2024Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
9 Jan 2025Sossusvlei sand dunes, Namib desert, Namibia
20 Jun 2024Summer solstice
5 Jan 2026A herd of impalas, Londolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
9 Mar 2024Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico, USA
5 May 2024Happy Cinco de Mayo!
7 Oct 2024World Architecture Day
In fine feather
Where the rainbow ends
Festival fever
27 Oct 2025Thick-billed raven, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
Gem of the Côte dAzur
9 Nov 2024Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
Ablaze with colour
Amber waves of grain
13 Apr 2026International Dark Sky Week
17 Mar 2025Happy St Patricks Day!
12 Apr 2026International Day of Human Space Flight
Sport where you least expect it