The year 1984 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
May 30 – The Prince of Wales (now
Charles III), in a speech to the
Royal Institute of British Architects denounces the proposed modernist Hampton Extension to the
National Gallery in London designed by
Peter Ahrends as "a hideous carbuncle on the face of an elegant and much-loved friend", declaring his reactionary views on architecture for the first time.[1]