Buildings and structures
International Convention Centre Sydney , Australia Templo Baháʼí near Santiago , Chile Duge Bridge , China Cité du Vin , Bordeaux , France The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, Portugal Paracas Museum (Museo de Sitio de Paracas ) on Paracas Peninsula , by designed by Barclay & Crousse, is built. September – Anantara Kalutara Resort, Kalutara projected for completion to a design by Geoffrey Bawa (d. 2003). April 27 – Hastings Pier reconstruction, designed by Alex de Rijke of dRMM Architects , opened (Stirling Prize winner 2017). May 21 – Command of the Oceans at Chatham Historic Dockyard , designed by Baynes and Mitchell Architects, opened. June 17 – Tate Modern Switch House (art gallery extension, subsequently named Blavatnik Building) on London Bankside , designed by Herzog & de Meuron , opened. August 4 – British Airways i360 observation tower, Brighton , designed by Marks Barfield , opened. September Art and Design Building, Bedales School , Steep, Hampshire , designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios . City Campus , City of Glasgow College , Scotland, designed by Reiach and Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects. Ineos headquarters building at Grangemouth , Scotland, designed by Michael Laird Architects, completed. Barrett's Grove (apartments), Stoke Newington , London, designed by Groupwork and Amin Taha. October – Photography studio for Juergen Teller , London, designed by 6a Architects. October 20 – Victoria Gate shopping arcade, Leeds , designed by Acme Space , opened. November 24 – Holland Green (apartment blocks) in the London Borough of Kensington , designed by Reinier de Graaf of Rem Koolhaas 's Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and interior refurbishment of the adjacent 1962 Commonwealth Institute building by John Pawson as new premises for the Design Museum , opened. December 8 – Winton Gallery at Science Museum, London , designed by Zaha Hadid . National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. , USA Awards
Exhibitions
Deaths
Claude Parent February 1 – Paul Pholeros , Australian architect (b. 1953) February 16 – Bořek Šípek , Czech architect and designer (b. 1949) February 27 – Claude Parent , French architect (b. 1923) March 31 – Zaha Hadid , 65, Iraqi-born British architect (b. 1950) May 16 – Romaldo Giurgola , 95, Italian-born American-Australian architect (b. 1920) June 8 – Michael Manser , 87, British architect (b. 1929) July 26 – Eric Kuhne , 64, American-born British architect (b. 1951) August 19 – Peter Blundell Jones , 67, British architectural historian (b. 1949) September – John Belle , 84, American architect (b. 1932) September 16 – Teodoro González de León , 90, Mexican architect (b. 1926) October 4 – Bing Thom , 75, Hong Kong born Canadian architect (b. 1940) November 14 – Diana Balmori , 84, Spanish born Argentinian-American landscape designer (b. 1932) November 15 – Sixto Durán-Ballén 95, American-born Ecuadorian politician (President of Ecuador 1992–1996) and architect (b. 1921) December 1 – Peter Corrigan , 74–75, Australian architect (b, 1941) December 13 – Roy Harrover , 88, American architect (b. 1928) See also
References
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