2018 in architecture

Fjordenhus, Kirk Kapital headquarters, on Vejle Fjord, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, completed.^[3]

Ureddplassen public toilet, designed by Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter + Landskapsfabrikken, opened.^[6]

Crimean Bridge between Crimea and Russia, the longest bridge in Europe, the road section of the bridge opened May 16.
Lakhta Center, in St. Petersburg, the tallest building in Europe, commissioning begins June 27.

Norra Tornen (Northern Towers) eastern residential tower, Stockholm, designed by OMA, completed.

Weiwuying (National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts), Kaohsiung, designed by Mecanoo, opened October 13.^[8]

Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık, opened October 10.
Istanbul Airport with the future world’s largest terminal, officially opened October 29.

Broomlands Primary School in Kelso, Scottish Borders, designed by Stallan-Brand, opened January 9.^[9]
Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery for the University of Cambridge at Eddington, designed by Stuart McKnight of MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects), completed c. March.^[10]
Beecroft Building for the University of Oxford Department of Physics, designed by Hawkins\Brown, officially opened September 17.^[11]
The Hubert Perrodo Building at St Peter's College, Oxford, by Design Engine Architects, officially opened March 13.^[12]
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, London, designed by MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) and Max Fordham, opened to public June 11.
V&A Museum of Design Dundee in Dundee, Scotland, designed by Kengo Kuma, opened September 15.
Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross Central in London, conversion of industrial premises to retail development by Thomas Heatherwick, opened October 26.^[13]
Gloucester Bus Station, designed by Building Design Partnership, opened October 26–28.
The Macallan distillery, Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, new building opened.
Nevill Holt Opera within 17th century stable block, designed by Witherford Watson Mann, opened June 14.^[14]

Mapleton Crescent, Wandsworth (high-rise prefabricated apartments), designed by Metropolitan Workshop.^[15]
Wittering House, Finsbury Park, home for self by Charles Bettes of GPad London, completed.
House in the Garden, Notting Hill, London, designed by Gianni Botsford, completed.

January 7 – Aydın Boysan, 96, Turkish architect
January 9 – Neave Brown, 88, American-born British architect
January 17 – Ted McCoy, 92, New Zealand architect
February 18 – Ivor Smith, 93, English architect
February 19 – Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, 91, Bolivian architect and art historian
February 20 – Lionel March, 84, British architect and mathematician
February 22 – Serban Cantacuzino, 90, French-born Romanian-British architect
April 26 – David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect
May 12 – Will Alsop, 70, British architect
May 18 – Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and architecture critic (From Bauhaus to Our House)
May 28 – Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese born Taiwanese architect
August 19 – Rafael Calventi, 92, Dominican architect and diplomat
August 26 – Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect
September 13 – Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect
September 18 – Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1991) and co-author with Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas
October 11 – Paul Andreu, 80, French architect (Osaka Maritime Museum)
November 24 – Gene Leedy, 90, American architect
December 27 – Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian-Quebecois architect and artist (the Montreal Metro stations Jean-Drapeau and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke)

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