1966 in architecture

The year 1966 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• June - Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, opens in June as a largest hospital of North America.
• October 28 - The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
• December 1966 - British Telecom Tower in Birmingham, West Midlands, England is completed.
• New Hall, Cambridge, England, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, is completed.
• CN Tower (Edmonton), is completed as the first skyscraper in the city of Edmonton, and tallest building in Western Canada until 1971.
• Fire Station Number 4, by Robert Venturi, completed in Columbus, Indiana.
• Lovejoy Plaza, by Lawrence Halprin completed in Portland, Oregon.
• Whitney Museum, by Marcel Breuer, completed in New York, New York.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange.
• RAIA Gold Medal - William Laurie.
• Royal Gold Medal - Ove Arup.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Events

• 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.

Births

• David Adjaye