The year2017 in architecture included the demolishment of a major brutalist building, several dedications and openings of new buildings, and two major disasters.

• January 19 – ThePlasco Building inTehran (Iran) collapses during a fire.^[1]
• May – The Fogarty Building, a "mammoth of modern Brutalist architecture" inProvidence, Rhode Island built in the 1960s and abandoned since 2003, is demolished to make room for a hotel^[2][3][4]
• June 14 – TheGrenfell Tower fire in London forces major reviews of public housing tower block construction in the United Kingdom
• November 15–17 – The annualWorld Architecture Festival is held in Berlin.

Belgium

• May 25 –NATO headquarters inHaren, Brussels, designed bySkidmore, 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 byMVRDV, opened^[6]
• December 2 –Sea World Culture and Arts Center inShekou, designed byFumihiko Maki, opened
• Ping An Finance Centre inShenzhen,the second tallest building in China andthe 4th tallest building in the world, is completed

France

• April 22 –La Seine Musicale concert venue in Paris, design co-ordinated byJean Nouvel, inaugurated

Germany

• January 11 –Elbphilharmonie concert hall inHamburg, designed byHerzog & de Meuron, opened
• October 31 – Reconstruction of the baroqueGarrison Church tower inPotsdam projected for completion on the 500th anniversary ofReformation Day

South Africa

• September 22 –Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa inCape Town, converted from a grain silo byThomas Heatherwick, opened

Spain

• Early –Món Casteller. The Human Towers Experience inValls (Province of Tarragona): museum dedicated to Intangible Heritage ofUNESCO: thecastell
• June 23 –Centro Botín de Arte y Cultura inSantander, designed byRenzo Piano, opens to the public^[7]

United Arab Emirates

• November 11 –Louvre Abu Dhabi, an art museum in Abu Dhabi designed byJean Nouvel, opened

United Kingdom

• Early – West Court,Jesus College, Cambridge, designed byNiall McLaughlin Architects, first phase completed
• February – Berkshire House (private home) nearCaversham, Reading, designed byGregory Phillips Architects, completed^[8]
• February 14 –Nucleus,Wick, Caithness, Scotland, designed by Reiach and Hall Architects, opened^[9][10]
• March –Leatare Quad atLady Margaret Hall, Oxford, designed byJohn Simpson Architects, completed
• March 18 – Cohen Quad forExeter College, Oxford, designed byAlison Brooks Architects, opened^[11]
• May –Sibson Building,University of Kent,Canterbury, designed byPenoyre & Prasad, opened
• May 16 – Big Data Institute,University of Oxford, designed byMake Architects, opened
• June – NGS Macmillan Unit, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, designed by The Manser Practice, opened^[12]
• June 29 – New entrance, courtyard and gallery forVictoria and Albert Museum in London designed byAmanda Levete'sAL 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 atWorcester College, Oxford, designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, opened^[15]
• October 24 –Bloomberg London European headquarters, designed byFoster and Partners, opened; awarded 2018Stirling Prize^[16]
• October 28 – Lombard Wharf (residential tower),Battersea, London, designed byPatel Taylor, completed^[17]
• November 1 – New (sunken) library,The Queen's College, Oxford, designed byRick Mather Architects, opened
• December 13 – NewEmbassy of the United States, London, designed byKieranTimberlake, opened to public
• 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, designed by Amin Taha for himself, completed^[18]
• Baltimore Tower in London Docklands designed bySkidmore, 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 inElephant and Castle, London, designed byAllies and Morrison, completed
• Bushey Cemetery for United Synagogue, designed by Waugh Thistleton, completed^[21]

United States

• Spring - TheJohn W. Olver Design Building at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst inAmherst, Massachusetts designed byLeers Weinzapfel Associates opens^[22]
• April –Apple Park inCupertino, California, designed byNorman Foster, opens
• October 20 – Engineering Research Center,Brown University, designed byKieranTimberlake, opens^[23][24]
• November –Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., designed by David Greenbaum, opens

• April 25 untilJuly 30 - "Berlin/Los Angeles: Space for Music" at theGetty Research Institute in Los Angeles,California.^[25]

• AIA Gold Medal –Paul Revere Williams
• Architecture Firm AwardAIA – Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
• Carbuncle Cup – PLP Architecture
• Driehaus Architecture Prize forNew 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
• RIBARoyal Gold Medal –Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil
• RIBAStirling Prize –dRMM Architects forHastings Pier^[26]
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture –Yvonne Farrell andShelley McNamara
• Twenty-five Year AwardAIA –Grand Louvre—Phase I byPei Cobb Freed & Partners
• UIAGold Medal –Toyo Ito
• Vincent Scully Prize –Laurie Olin

• 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)

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