2017 in architecture
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The year 2017 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
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- Belgium
- May 25 – NATO headquarters in Haren, Brussels, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, dedicated
- Brazil
- January – Children Village, Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins, designed by Rosenbaum + Aleph Zero (Gustavo Utrabo and Pedro Duschenes), completed[1]
- China
- Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen, the second tallest building in China and the 4th tallest building in the world, is completed
- December 2 – Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shekou, designed by Fumihiko Maki, opened
- Germany
- January 11 – Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany, 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
- 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[2]
- 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 Níall McLaughlin Architects, first phase completed
- February – Berkshire House (private home) near Caversham, Reading, designed by Gregory Phillips Architects, completed[3]
- 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[4]
- 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[5]
- June 29 – New entrance, courtyard and gallery for Victoria and Albert Museum in London designed by Amanda Levete's AL A[6]
- Summer – Black House (private home), Great Chart, Kent, designed by Andy Ramus (AR Design Studio), completed
- October 18 – Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Worcester College, Oxford, designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, opened[7]
- October 24 – Bloomberg London European headquarters, designed by Foster and Partners, opened; awarded 2018 Stirling Prize[8]
- October 28 – Lombard Wharf (residential tower), Battersea, London, designed by Patel Taylor, completed[9]
- 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
- 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[10]
- Redesdale (private home), Boars Hill, Oxford, designed by Khoury Architects, completed
- No. 37 (private home), Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by Family Architects
- 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[11]
- United States
- April – Apple Park in Cupertino, California, designed by Norman Foster, opens
- October 20 – Engineering Research Center, Brown University, designed by KieranTimberlake, opens[12][13]
- November - Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. opens
Events
- January 19 – Plasco Building in Tehran (Iran) collapses during a fire
- 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.[14][15][16]
- June 14 – 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
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Paul Revere Williams
- Architecture Firm Award AIA – Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
- Carbuncle Cup - PLP Architecture
- 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
- 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
- January 5 – Leonardo Benevolo, Italian architectural historian (b. 1923)[17]
- 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)[18]
- 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)
References
- ↑ "Children Village". RIBA. 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-11.
- ↑ Wainwright, Oliver (2017-06-24). "'I wanted the building to fly': Piano's seafront art gallery opens in Santander". The Guardian. London. pp. 26–7. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
- ↑ "Berkshire House, Reading". RIBAJ. Royal Institute of British Architects. 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ↑ "Exeter College holds formal opening of Cohen Quad". Oxford: Exeter College. 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
- ↑ "NGS Macmillan Unit". RIBA Architecture.com. 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ↑ Lusiardi, Federica (2016-04-27). "The renovated V&A by Amanda Levete Architects". inexhibit. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
- ↑ Hughes, Pete (2017-10-18). "Malaysian Sultan and Duchess of Cornwall open new building at Oxford University". The Oxford Times. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "Bloomberg HQ in London wins Riba architecture prize". BBC News. 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ↑ "Lombard Wharf / Patel Taylor". ArchDaily. 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ↑ Moore, Rowan (2017-06-11). "Shout it from the rooftops". The Observer. London. p. 28 (New Review). Retrieved 2017-06-13.
- ↑ Moore, Rowan (2018-01-07). "Bushey Jewish Cemetery review – a place of dignity and ease". The Observer. London. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ↑ Stacey, Kevin (20 October 2017). "Let the move-in begin: Engineering Research Center opens its doors". Brown University. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ↑ "Brown University, Engineering Research Center". BuroHappold Engineering. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ↑ Hill, John (9 January 2016). "Time's up for the Brutalist Fogarty building in downtown Providence". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ↑ Bogdan, Jennifer (9 May 2017). "Stalled demolition of Fogarty Building in Providence expected to resume Saturday". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ↑ Borg, Linda (13 May 2017). "Last wall of Fogarty Building falls in Providence". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ↑ Bucci, Stefano (2017-01-06). "Morto Leonardo Benevolo, l'urbanista che ridisegnò le periferie". Corriere della Sera (in Italian).
- ↑ Stamp, Gavin (2017-07-15). "Richard Gilbert Scott". The Guardian (53150). London. p. 38. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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