2017 in architecture
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The year 2017 in architecture included the demolishment of a major brutalist building, several dedications and openings of new buildings, and two major disasters.
- January 19 – The Plasco Building in Tehran (Iran) collapses during a fire.[1]
- May – The Fogarty Building, a "mammoth of modern Brutalist architecture" in Providence, Rhode Island built in the 1960s and abandoned since 2003, is demolished to make room for a hotel[2][3][4]
- June 14 – The Grenfell Tower fire in London forces major reviews of public housing tower block construction in the United Kingdom
- November 15–17 – The annual World Architecture Festival is held in Berlin.
Buildings and structures
- Belgium
- May 25 – NATO headquarters in Haren, Brussels, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, dedicated
- Brazil
- January – The Children's Village at the Canuanã School, Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins, designed by Rosenbaum + Aleph Zero (Gustavo Utrabo and Pedro Duschenes), completed[5]
- China
- October – Tianjin Binhai Library, designed by MVRDV, opened[6]
- December 2 – Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shekou, designed by Fumihiko Maki, opened
- Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen, the second tallest building in China and the 4th tallest building in the world, is completed
- France
- April 22 – La Seine Musicale concert venue in Paris, design co-ordinated by Jean Nouvel, inaugurated
- Germany
- January 11 – Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, opened
- October 31 – Reconstruction of the baroque Garrison Church tower in Potsdam projected for completion on the 500th anniversary of Reformation Day
- South Africa
- September 22 – Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, converted from a grain silo by Thomas Heatherwick, opened
- Spain
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- Early – Món Casteller. The Human Towers Experience in Valls (Province of Tarragona): museum dedicated to Intangible Heritage of UNESCO: the castell
- June 23 – Centro Botín de Arte y Cultura in Santander, designed by Renzo Piano, opens to the public[7]
- United Arab Emirates
- November 11 – Louvre Abu Dhabi, an art museum in Abu Dhabi designed by Jean Nouvel, opened
- United Kingdom
- Early – West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects, first phase completed
- February – Berkshire House (private home) near Caversham, Reading, designed by Gregory Phillips Architects, completed[8]
- February 14 – Nucleus, Wick, Caithness, Scotland, designed by Reiach and Hall Architects, opened[9][10]
- March – Leatare Quad at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, designed by John Simpson Architects, completed
- March 18 – Cohen Quad for Exeter College, Oxford, designed by Alison Brooks Architects, opened[11]
- May – Sibson Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, designed by Penoyre & Prasad, opened
- May 16 – Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, designed by Make Architects, opened
- June – NGS Macmillan Unit, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, designed by The Manser Practice, opened[12]
- June 29 – New entrance, courtyard and gallery for Victoria and Albert Museum in London designed by Amanda Levete's AL A[13]
- Summer – Black House (private home), Great Chart, Kent, designed by Andy Ramus (AR Design Studio), completed
- September 27 – GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory, University of Nottingham, designed by Fairhursts Design Group, opened[14]
- October 18 – Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College, Oxford, designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, opened[15]
- October 24 – Bloomberg London European headquarters, designed by Foster and Partners, opened; awarded 2018 Stirling Prize[16]
- October 28 – Lombard Wharf (residential tower), Battersea, London, designed by Patel Taylor, completed[17]
- November 1 – New (sunken) library, The Queen's College, Oxford, designed by Rick Mather Architects, opened
- December 13 – New Embassy of the United States, London, designed by KieranTimberlake, opened to public
- 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, designed by Amin Taha for himself, completed[18]
- Baltimore Tower in London Docklands designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- Caring Wood (private home), Leeds, Kent, designed by James Macdonald Wright of Macdonald Wright Architects and Niall Maxwell, completed[19]
- Redesdale (private home), Boars Hill, Oxford, designed by Khoury Architects, completed
- No. 37 (private home), Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by Family Architects
- Vex House, Stoke Newington, London, designed by Chance De Silva[20]
- Two Fifty One, a mixed-use development in Elephant and Castle, London, designed by Allies and Morrison, completed
- Bushey Cemetery for United Synagogue, designed by Waugh Thistleton, completed[21]
- United States
- Spring - The John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates opens[22]
- April – Apple Park in Cupertino, California, designed by Norman Foster, opens
- October 20 – Engineering Research Center, Brown University, designed by KieranTimberlake, opens[23][24]
- November – Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., designed by David Greenbaum, opens
Exhibitions
- April 25 until July 30 - "Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music" at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.[25]
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Paul Revere Williams
- Architecture Firm Award AIA – Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
- Carbuncle Cup – PLP Architecture
- Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical Architecture – Robert Adam
- Emporis Skyscraper Award – Lotte World Tower
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe Prize) – NL Architects and XVW architectuur
- Lawrence Israel Prize – Karim Rashid
- Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate – Rafael Moneo
- Pritzker Architecture Prize – Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramón Vilalta / RCR Arquitectes
- RAIA Gold Medal – Peter Elliott
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil
- RIBA Stirling Prize – dRMM Architects for Hastings Pier[26]
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
- Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Grand Louvre—Phase I by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
- UIA Gold Medal – Toyo Ito
- Vincent Scully Prize – Laurie Olin
