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.^[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.

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 is passed by the United States Congress and signed into law, forming much of the foundation of architectural renovation and rehabilitation in that country.
Construction begins on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York.

^ Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.