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.

## Events

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* 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

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 2017

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
Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, 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
Centro Botín in Santander, Spain

* 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]

Apple Park in Cupertino, California, USA

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

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* April 25 until July 30 \- "Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music" at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California.[25]

## Awards

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* 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

## Deaths

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Antonio Lamela

* January 5 – Leonardo Benevolo, Italian architectural historian (b. 1923)[27]
* March 5 – Leonard Manasseh, British architect (b. 1916)
* March 7 – Slavko Brezovski, Macedonian architect (b. 1922)
* March 10 – Christopher Gray, American journalist and architectural historian (b. 1950)
* March 17 – Hugh Hardy, American architect (b. 1932)
* April 1 – Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (b. 1926)
* May 2 – Diane Lewis, American architect, author and academic (b. 1951)
* July 1 – Richard Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1923)[28]
* July 4 – Bryan Avery, English architect (b. 1944)
* August 15 – Gunnar Birkerts, 92, Latvian-born American architect (b. 1925)
* September 1 – Gin D. Wong, 94, Chinese-born American architect (b. 1922)
* September 9 – Otto Meitinger, 90, German architect and preservationist (b. 1929)
* September 15 – Albert Speer Jr., 83, German architect (b. 1934)
* September 28 – Vann Molyvann, 90, Cambodian architect (b. 1926)
* October 5 – Dan Hanganu, 78, Romanian born Canadian architect (b. 1939)
* October 29 – Manfredi Nicoletti, 89, Italian architect (b.1930)
* November 30 – Vincent Scully, 97,r American architectural historian (b. 1920)
* December 29 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (Peachtree Center) (b. 1924)

## See also

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* Timeline of architecture

## References

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