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2017 in architecture

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The year 2017 in architecture is expected to involve some significant events and new buildings.

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Buildings

Australia
  • 1 William Street, the tallest building in Brisbane, designed by Woods Bagot, projected for completion
    • 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
    • Iran
  • January 19 – Plasco Building in Tehran collapses during a fire
    • Spain
  • Early – Món Casteller. The Human Towers Experience in Valls (Province of Tarragona): museum dedicated to Intangible Heritage of UNESCO: the castell
    • United Arab Emirates
  • Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a museum in Abu Dhabi, UAE designed by Frank Gehry, projected for completion
  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, a museum in Abu Dhabi designed by Jean Nouvel, projected for completion
    • United States
  • Early – Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California, designed by Norman Foster, projected opening

    • Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Paul Revere Williams
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil
  • Twenty-five Year Award AIA – Grand Louvre—Phase I by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

    • Deaths

  • January 5 - Leonardo Benevolo, Italian architecture historian (b. 1923)

    • References

    2017 in architecture Wikipedia
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