1964 in architecture

none 1964 architecture The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events June 11 – Reconstruction of the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London by Laurence King is completed.The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches Tucker T. London Friends of the City Churches 2006 0-9553945-0-3 Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published. Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.Dawson's Heights: the 'Italian' hill town in Dulwich https://c20society.org.uk/casework/dawsons-heights-the-italian-hill-town-in-dulwich/ May 2012 Henrietta Billings 2018-01-28 The Twentieth Century Society Didcot Power Station layout in England is designed by Frederick Gibberd. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1964 Buildings opened thumb|Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan April – Donauturm (Danube Tower) in Vienna, Austria, designed by Hannes Lintl, opened. May 30 – Zu den heiligen Engeln church in Hanover, Germany, designed by Bieling Architekten, consecrated. July 23 – Church of the Good Shepherd, Nottingham, England (Roman Catholic), designed by Gerard Goalen, opened. October – Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenzō Tange for the 1964 Summer Olympics, opened. October 16 – St Catherine's College, Oxford, England, designed by Arne Jacobsen, opened. October 17 – Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, Australia, designed by Walter Burley Griffin (died 1937), opened. November 21 Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge across New York Harbor, the longest suspension bridge in the world by the length of central span (1964-1981), designed by Othmar Ammann, opened. Gala Fairydean F.C. stand, Netherdale stadium, Galashiels, Scotland, designed by Peter Womersley, opened.https://www.gfrfc.co.uk/the-stand Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C. Galashiels Graeme McIver 2017-01-24 December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan, designed by Makoto Tanahashi, opened. Buildings completed July 15 – The Post Office Tower in London (now known as the BT Tower), designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats, is topped out. right|thumb|Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo thumb|St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan thumb|The Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France December 28 – Kyoto Tower in Kyoto, Japan opens. date unknown Tour de la Bourse in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1964–1967). CBS Building in New York City, the only skyscraper designed by Eero Saarinen (d. 1961). Prudential Tower in Boston, United States, designed by Charles Luckman and Associates. 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. Founders Tower (Oklahoma City). Casino Tower in Niagara Falls. 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. Pääskyvuoren linkkitorni in Turku, Finland. The Ušće Tower in Belgrade, Serbia (badly damaged in 1999 by NATO airstrikes, but reconstructed in 2004). 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.Elain Harwood England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings rev. London Batsford 2003 0-7134-8818-2 The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture,103,AR.html ZSL Architecture ZSL 2008-03-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20080228070202/http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture%2C103%2CAR.html 28 February 2008 dead St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo, Japan (Roman Catholic), designed by Kenzō Tange, is completed. St Mary's Church, Leyland, Lancashire, England (Roman Catholic), designed by J. Faczynski of Weightman and Bullen. Synagogue for Belfast Hebrew Congregation (Northern Ireland) designed by Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall. Extension to the Ulster Museum, Belfast, designed in Brutalist style by Francis Pym, completed. The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, D.C., designed by McKim, Mead & White, opens to the public (January 23).Mission & History http://americanhistory.si.edu/museum/mission-history National Museum of American History 2018-02-14 Fondation Maeght museum of modern art at Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes of France, designed by Spanish Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, is opened (July 28).The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation Fondation Maeght 2010 2012-10-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20121022050232/http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation 2012-10-22 dead New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.463 Alan Brooks Oxfordshire: North and West New Haven; London Yale University Press 2017 978-0-300-20930-3 Pevsner Architectural Guides Awards AIA Gold Medal – Pier Luigi Nervi Architecture Firm Award – The Architects Collaborative RAIA Gold Medal – Cobden Parkes RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Maxwell Fry Prix de Rome, architecture – Bernard Schoebel Rome Prize Fellowship at American Academy in Rome – Charles O. Perry Births September 15 – Alan Jones, Northern Ireland-born architect date unknown Heike Hanada, German artist, architect and teacher of architecture Greg Lynn, American architect and academic Deaths February 3 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)Sir Albert Richardson https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/albert-richardson-pra www.royalacademy.org.uk 19 January 2018 March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and architect (born 1884) June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (born 1888) July 17 – Maurice Glaize, French architect and archeologist (born 1886) July 23 – Arkady Mordvinov, Soviet Stalinist architect (born 1896) November 5 – Percy Erskine Nobbs, Montreal Arts & Crafts architect (born 1875) References Category:20th-century architecture