1966 in architecture
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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.[1]
- 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
Deaths
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References
- ^ Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.