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1960 in architecture
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The year 1960 in architecture involved some significant events. April 21 - Brasília is inaugurated as Brazils new capital city, lúcio Costa was the principal urban planner and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer. Construction of the Tour Telus in Montreal, Quebec begins, little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture. January 13 - Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan, april 12 - Candlestick Park on the shore of San Francisco Bay, designed by architect John Bolles. May 25 - Teatro General San Martín in Buenos Aires, the first major project by Argentine architect Mario Roberto Álvarez, june 3 - Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, England, designed by Elisabeth Scott. August - Ongryu Bridge on the Taedong River in Pyongyang, North Korea, American Embassy London Chancery Building, designed by Eero Saarinen. Climatron geodesic dome at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, the Chemosphere, a house designed by American architect John Lautner, in the Hollywood Hills, California. Euromast in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from the design by Hugh Maaskant, broxbourne and Harlow Town railway stations on the Eastern Region of British Railways. Finlyandsky Rail Terminal is rebuilt in St. Petersburg, Russia, hooper House II, by architect Marcel Breuer, in Baltimore, Maryland. Mabel McDowell Elementary School in Columbus, Indiana, designed by architect John Carl Warnecke, mirante do Vale in the Central Zone of São Paulo, the tallest building in Brazil, designed by engineer Waldomiro Zarzur. Napoli Centrale railway station and PalaLottomatica sports arena, by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy, designed by architect Gio Ponti, with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, with building and furnishings designed by Arne Jacobsen, ducor Intercontinental Hotel in Monrovia, Liberia, designed by Moshe Mayer. Sainte Marie de La Tourette near Lyon, France, designed by Le Corbusier, cristo Obrero y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Estación Atlántida, Uruguay, designed by Eladio Dieste. St Pauls, Bow Common, London, designed by Robert Maguire, william L. Slayton House in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D. C. designed by I. M. Pei. AIA Gold Medal - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Jean-Claude Bernard. RAIA Gold Medal - Leslie Wilkinson, RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Pier Luigi Nervi
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1961 in architecture
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The year 1961 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. December - Demolition of the Euston Arch in London begins, Archigram is founded as an avant-garde architectural group based at the Architectural Association, London, and publishes its manifesto Archigram I. It will work through projects and an associated magazine. Ahrends, Burton and Koralek is formed as a practice in London. Building Design Partnership is formed in Preston, Lancashire, st Eusebius Church, Arnhem, Netherlands, is restored by Berend Tobia Boeyinga. The first apartment blocks in Hungary of Panelház construction are erected in Dunaújváros, construction of Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban in Dhaka, designed by Louis Kahn, begins. Double tee beams are first used by Gene Leedy in constructing his own office at Winter Haven, march 11 - Benton Park School, Leeds, England, designed by Sir John Burnet, Tait and Partners, formally opened. May 17 - Guildford Cathedral, England, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, may 18 - The Henninger Turm in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by Karl Leiser, inaugurated. September 17 - The Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, United States, designed by Mitchell, october 17 - The Kremlin Palace of Congresses in Moscow, Soviet Union, designed by a team led by M. Posokhin. November 20 - Dungeness Lighthouse on the south coast of England, designed by Philip W. Hunt and Ronald Ward and Partners, december 17 - New Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, designed by Egon Eiermann, consecrated. December 8 - The Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, United States, designed by Edward Carlson, John Graham, date unknown The Palazzo del Lavoro and Palazzetto dello sport in Turin, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi. One Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York City, United States, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, the Empress State Building in London, England, designed by Stone, Toms & Partners. Brasenose College, Oxford, England, Staircases 16,17 and 18, designed by Powell, lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, England, Wolfson Quadrangle library and entrance, designed by Raymond Erith. Yokohama Marine Tower in Yokohama, Japan, chungking Mansions in Hong Kong, China. Park Hill Flats, Sheffield, England, designed by Jack Lynn, embassy of the United States, Baghdad, Iraq, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is completed. Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle in London, designed by Rodney Gordon, service station with hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shell roof at Markham Moor, Nottinghamshire, England, designed by Sam Scorer. Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities Lewis Mumford - The City in History Gordon Cullen - The Concise Townscape AIA Gold Medal - Le Corbusier, RAIA Gold Medal - Louis Laybourne-Smith. Royal Gold Medal - Lewis Mumford
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1962 in architecture
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The year 1962 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Construction of Dalgety Bay, a small New town in Fife, Scotland, April 21 - The Space Needle in Seattle, just in time for the Century 21 Exposition. May 25 - Coventry Cathedral in England, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated, may 28 - TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, New York, designed by Eero Saarinen. July 1 - The Minolta Tower in Niagara Falls, august 24 - General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge over Lake Maraceibo, Venezuela, designed by Riccardo Morandi, opened by President Romulo Betancourt. September 23 - Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, november 6 - Commonwealth Institute in the London Borough of Kensington, designed by Sir Robert Matthew of RMJM, opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Dates unknown Saint Petersburg TV Tower in Saint Petersburg, Russia, both Marina City towers in Chicago, United States, are completed, however, they are not fully furnished until 1964. Tour CIBC in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, place Ville Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, becoming the tallest building in the British Commonwealth. CIS Tower in Manchester, England, designed by G. S, hay and Gordon Tait, becoming the tallest building in the United Kingdom. Tryvannstårnet, broadcasting tower in Oslo, Norway, policromatic condominium block in Zagreb by Ivo Vitic. United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, Colorado Springs, designed by Walter Netsch, sentech Tower, television transmitter in Johannesburg, South Africa. AIA Gold Medal - Eero Saarinen, architecture Firm Award - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Piet Blom, RAIA Gold Medal - Joseph Fowell. Royal Gold Medal - Sven Gottfried Markelius, february 25 - Andres Siim, Estonian architect January 16 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect April 21 - W
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1963 in architecture
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The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events. March 7 - MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, United States, june 22 - Arrábida Bridge, Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso. October 15 - Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun, november - Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Max Abramovitz. St. John the Baptist Church, Ermine, Lincoln, England, großer Sendesaal of Hanover Broadcast Station in West Germany, designed by Dieter Oesterlen. Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners. Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson, engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan. Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun. Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer, Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan. Bunshaft Residence in East Hampton, New York, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin. Pennsylvania Station by McKim, Mead and White is demolished, work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun. Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, the avant-garde architectural collective Archigram stages the Living Cities exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe AIA Gold Medal - Alvar Aalto, RAIA Gold Medal - Arthur Stephenson. Royal Gold Medal - William Holford, grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Jean-Louis Girodet. John Summerson - The Classical Language of Architecture, J. P. Oud, Dutch architect April 23 - Adrian Gilbert Scott, English church architect, grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott
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1964 in architecture
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The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published, april - Donauturm in Vienna, Austria, designed by Hannes Lintl, opened. October - Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Summer Olympics, october 16 - St Catherines College, Oxford, designed by Arne Jacobsen, opened. October 17 - Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia, designed by Walter Burley Griffin, november 21 Verrazano Narrows Bridge across New York Harbor, designed by Othmar Ammann, opened. Gala Fairydean F. C. stand, Netherdale stadium, Galashiels, Scotland, designed by Peter Womersley, december 28 - Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan, designed by Makoto Tanahashi, opened. July 15 - The Post Office Tower in London, designed by Eric Bedford, date unknown Tour de la Bourse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth. Prudential Tower in Boston, United States, the Erieview Tower in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is completed as part of the Erieview urban renewal plan. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art new building, designed by William Pereira, rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia, United States, designed by Pietro Belluschi and George M. Ewing Co. Fernmeldeturm Berlin in Berlin, Germany, is completed after 3 years, the Fernmeldeturm Ulm-Ermingen in Ulm-Ermingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Ušće Tower in Belgrade, Serbia, the Royal College of Physicians in London, designed by Denys Lasdun. Swiss Cottage Central Library for the London Borough of Camden, designed by Sir Basil Spence, the Economist Group headquarters in the City of London, designed by Peter and Alison Smithson. The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price, synagogue for Belfast Hebrew Congregation designed by Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall. Extension to the Ulster Museum, Belfast, designed in Brutalist style by Francis Pym, the Smithsonian Institutions Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D. C. designed by McKim, Mead & White, opens to the public. Fondation Maeght museum of art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France. AIA Gold Medal - Pier Luigi Nervi, architecture Firm Award - The Architects Collaborative. RAIA Gold Medal - Cobden Parkes, Royal Gold Medal - Maxwell Fry. Prix de Rome, architecture - Bernard Schoebel, Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome - Charles O. Perry
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1965 in architecture
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The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. August 15 - Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Ireland, september - Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 6 The Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, the Post Office Tower in London, UK, officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson November 19 - Dedication of the Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway. October - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, holyoke Center at Harvard University, Boston, United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert. The Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, United States, the NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Florida, United States. Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, the Nozema Zendstation, The Hague, Netherlands. Elephant House, London Zoo, designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder, architecture Firm Award - Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. RAIA Gold Medal - Osborn McCutcheon, RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange
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1966 in architecture
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The year 1966 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. February 14 - CN Tower, the first skyscraper in the city of Edmonton, march - Dunelm House, Durham, England, designed by Richard Raines of Architects Co-Partnership. June - Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, august 31 - Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, England, designed by Owen Luder and Rodney Gordon. October 28 - The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, United States, New Hall, Cambridge, England, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. Church of St Peter, Klippan, Sweden, by Sigurd Lewerentz, is completed, fire Station Number 4 in Columbus, Indiana, by Robert Venturi. Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue in New York City, lovejoy Plaza in Portland, Oregon, by Lawrence Halprin, is designed. AIA Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange, RAIA Gold Medal - William Laurie. Royal Gold Medal - Ove Arup, grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Bernard Schoebel. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture, construction begins on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York. September - David Adjaye, Tanzanian-born British architect date unknown - Winka Dubbeldam, Dutch American architect date unknown - Hans Hansen, German architect and theorist
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1967 in architecture
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The year 1967 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. November 7 - St Pancras railway station in London is made a Grade I listed building, the first Conservation area is designated, in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava is begun, it not be completed until 1983. February 7 - Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Spence, march - Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England, built by Higgs and Hill. April - Habitat 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada designed by Moshe Safdie as part of Expo 67, may 14 - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, is consecrated. September 3 - Essingebron, Stockholm, Sweden, the Fashion Island shopping mall in Newport Beach, California, designed by William Pereira and Welton Becket. December - Tour du Midi, Brussels, Belgium, avord Tower, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada El Menzah Sports Palace, Tunis, Tunisia. Ostankino Tower, Moscow, Russia, it remain the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the completion of the CN Tower. Saint Josephs Oratory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Kaknästornet TV Tower in Stockholm, Sweden. Berkeley Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, designed by Ahrends, Burton, the Marine Midland Bank Building in Manhattan, New York, United States. The South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa, California, reliance Controls factory, Swindon, the last design by Team 4, considered the first example of High-tech architecture in the United Kingdom, is opened. The first part of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designed by Mies van der Rohe, ypres Cloth Hall, reconstructed to its pre-World War I condition under the guidance of architects J. Coomans and P. A. Farquhar, California-based architect December 18 - Barry Byrne, American architect of the Prairie School
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1968 in architecture
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The year 1968 in architecture involved some significant events. May 16 - Ronan Point tower block in London collapses after a gas explosion, lake Point Tower in Chicago, designed by Schippereit-Heinrich Associates is completed. The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm in Hamburg, Germany is completed, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir Roy Grounds is completed. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened, the Nozema Tower Wormer in Wormerland, Netherlands is completed. The Olympiaturm in Munich, Germany is opened, the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas is completed. The Standard Bank Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa is completed, the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge, England, designed by James Stirling, is completed. Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England, designed by Powell, Aalto Center in Seinäjoki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed. New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil, saint Marks Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, is consecrated. Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, designed by W. K. Noppe, is opened, one Kemble Street in London, designed by George Marsh of Richard Seiferts practice, is completed. Cables Wynd House, Leith, Scotland, designed by Alison & Hutchison & Partners, is completed, american Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Buckminster Fuller. AIA Gold Medal - Marcel Breuer, architecture Firm Award - I. M. Pei & Partners. RAIA Gold Medal - Roy Grounds, royal Gold Medal - Richard Buckminster Fuller. July 27 - Otto Eisler, Czech architect
