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1971 architecture
The year 1971 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center, by Minoru Yamasaki, is topped out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world.Tamara L. Britton World Trade Center https://books.google.com/books?id=rfV6AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 1 September 2010 ABDO Publishing Company 978-1-61785-022-6 20
Buildings and structures
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1971
Buildings opened
thumb|Courts of Justice building in Valletta, Malta
January 9 – Courts of Justice building in Valletta, Malta
February 26 – Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, United States, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson.James E. B. Breslin Mark Rothko: A Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=xwP_jO9zI00C&pg=PA655 13 August 2012 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-07406-1 655
May 1 – Näsinneula tower in Tampere, Finland.
May 9 – Peace Candle of the World, Scappoose, Oregon, USA.
August – Meritus Mandarin Singapore Hotel Tower 1 in Singapore, designed by Stanley T. S. Leong.Harminder C Rajan Gareth Guang Ming Tan Evan Beng Kai Tan Unlocking Hidden Potential: Strategic Transformation And Value Creation At Mandarin Orchard Singapore And Mandarin Gallery https://books.google.com/books?id=LsPKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 3 December 2019 World Scientific Publishing Company 9789811214554 72
October 16 – Azadi Tower, originally Shahyad Tower, Tehran, Iran, designed by Hossein Amanat
Buildings completed
thumb|New Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, USA
April – Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa.https://www.southafrica.info/travel/cities/hillbrowtower.htm Hillbrow Tower – symbol of Joburg Davie Lucille 2004-01-06 2008-11-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20090227151714/http://southafrica.info/travel/cities/hillbrowtower.htm 2009-02-27 dead
May – New Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.
Marsham Towers, three 20-storey tower blocks for the Department of the Environment atop a 5-storey linking building at Marsham Street in Westminster, London, designed by Eric Bedford (demolished 2002–03).
Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.Udo Kultermann Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region https://books.google.com/books?id=hQZQAAAAMAAJ 1999 McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-036831-6
Maupoleum in Amsterdam, designed by Piet Zanstra (demolished 1994).
Danmarks Nationalbank headquarters, Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen with Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling.
Carmel de la Paix in Mazille, Saône-et-Loire, France, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
Fred. Olsen Lines terminal, London Docklands, the first major design of Foster Associates.http://www.sendungen.sf.tv/sternstunden/Nachrichten/Archiv/2011/11/29/sternstundeneinzel/Sternstunde-Kunst-vom-4.-Dezember-2011 How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster? Sternstunde Kultur Schweizer Fernsehen 2011-12-04 2012-10-17 2012-05-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20120504100810/http://www.sendungen.sf.tv/sternstunden/Nachrichten/Archiv/2011/11/29/sternstundeneinzel/Sternstunde-Kunst-vom-4.-Dezember-2011 dead
Summerland Leisure Complex in Douglas, Isle of Man (destroyed by fire 1973).
Ukrainian Institute of Scientific Research and Development, Kyiv, designed by L. Novikov and F. Yurijev.
Redcar Library, England, designed by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (demolished 2011).
Villa Gontero, Cumiana, Italy, designed by Carlo Graffi.Villa Gontero, brutalist but not too much domus https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2022/05/25/villa-gontero-paradigm-of-a-brutalist-architecture-but-not-too-much.html Roberto Dulio 2022-05-30 2022-06-01
Anderton House, Rigg Side, Goodleigh, North Devon, England, designed by Peter Aldington and John Craig.Elain Harwood 1971: Anderton House, Devon https://www.c20society.org.uk/100-buildings/1971-anderton-house-devon/ 100 Buildings 100 Years Twentieth Century Society 2016-04-22
Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, designed by Hugh StubbinsBernstein Gerald S Building a Campus: An Architectural Celebration of Brandeis University 50th Anniversary 1999 Brandeis University Office of Publications 42703912 77
Awards
AIA Gold Medal – Louis Kahn
Architecture Firm Award – Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.
RAIA Gold Medal – Frederick Lucas
RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Hubert de Cronin Hastings
Twenty-five Year Award – Crow Island School
Births
May 7 – Marco Casagrande, Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, writer and professor of architecture
May 17 – Martin Aunin, Estonian architect
Carlo Ratti, Italian-born architect and urban theorist
Rocio Romero, Chilean-born architect
Deaths
March 24 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (born 1902)
August 1 – Vincent Harris, English architect (born 1876)
August 28 – Edith Hughes, Britain's first professionally practising woman architect (born 1888)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201522 Edith Mary Wardlaw Burnet Hughes Dictionary of Scottish Architects 2009-05-05 2020-06-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20200617154343/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=201522 dead
October 16 – Robin Boyd, Australian architect (born 1919)
November 23 – Bertalan Árkay, Hungarian architect (born 1901)
References
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