1970 in architecture
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The year 1970 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- March 7 – John Hancock Center official opening ceremony, by Bruce Graham/ SOM, in Chicago, Illinois.
- May 31 – Cathedral of Brasilia, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is dedicated.
- July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt (officially opened in January 1971).[1]
- August – Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō, cenotaph in Osaka, Japan.
- December 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, by Minoru Yamasaki, is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world. The building accepts its first tenants that same month.[2]
Buildings completed
- Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters, later known as the Pirelli Tire Building, a brutalist landmark in New Haven, Connecticut designed by Marcel Breuer[3][4]
- 11 Stanwix Street (Westinghouse Tower) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- East Harlem Pre-School in New York City, by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson.
- Pimlico Secondary School in London, England, by John Bancroft of the Greater London Council architecture department (demolished 2010).[5]
- Euston Tower in London, England.
- One Palliser Square in Calgary, Alberta
- KEMO Toren telecommunications tower in Arnhem, Netherlands.
- Mount Angel Abbey Library in St. Benedict, near Mount Angel, Oregon, by Alvar Aalto.
- Central Library, University of California, San Diego, by William Pereira.
- Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, by the "Warsaw Tigers" (Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki).
- Kettle's Yard art gallery extension in Cambridge, England, by Leslie Martin.
- Oklahoma Theater Center in Oklahoma City, by John M. Johansen.
- Phillips Exeter Athletics at Exeter, New Hampshire, by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.
- Trust Bank Building in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- The Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland, by RMJM.
- The Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, England, by Victor Pasmore.
- World Trade Center (Tokyo), Japan's tallest building at this time.[6]
- Yerevan Chess House, Armenia.
- Queensgate Market, Huddersfield, England, by J. Seymour Harris Partnership (Gwyn Roberts, project architect).[7]
- Równica Sanatorium, Ustroń-Zawodzie, Poland.
- Capel Manor House, Horsmonden, Kent, England, by Michael Manser.[8]
- The Cornell Campus Store, an underground shopping arcade at Cornell University, by Earl Flansburgh[9]
Buildings started
- House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), designed by Yulian L. Shvartsbreim; never completed as a functional building.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Richard Buckminster Fuller.
- Architecture Firm Award – Ernest J. Kump Associates.
- RAIA Gold Medal – Jack McConnell.
- Royal Gold Medal – Robert Matthew.
Births
- April 4 – Tom Wiscombe, American architect
- July 4 – Tatiana Fabeck, Luxembourg architect
Deaths
- April 16 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect working in Southern California (born 1892)
- May 9 – Oscar Stonorov, German-born modernist architect and architectural writer, historian and archivist (born 1905)
- May 24 – J. George Stewart, US architect and politician (born 1890)
- July 3 – Joseph Charles Fowell, Australian architect (born 1891)
- July 11 – André Lurçat, French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer and city planner (born 1894)
- July 20 – Egon Eiermann, German architect (born 1904)
- September 11 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (born 1886)
- December 29 – Rose Connor, American architect (born 1892)
References
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 28 April 2013
- ^ History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015
- ^ Dickinson, Duo (22 December 2016). "After A Dozen Years, New Interest In Adaptive Reuse Of Iconic Pirelli Building". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
the building, which was finished in 1970
- ^ Cogley, Bridget. "Brutalist Breuer building owned by IKEA could become hotel in Connecticut". de zeen. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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- ^ "John Bancroft". Utopia London. 2010. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "Tokyo World Trade Center Building". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ^ Marsden, Christopher (February 2009). "Queensgate Market, Huddersfield". Building of the month. The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
- ^ Ednie, Caroline (2013-02-02). "Living in a glass house". Qatar Tribune. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
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