1970 in architecture

none 1970 architecture The year 1970 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events September 23–29 – Adam Fergusson's essay criticising inappropriate development in the historic English city of Bath, Somerset, "The Sack of Bath", is published in The Times newspaper by the editor William Rees-Mogg, a landmark in concern for architectural conservation in Britain.Cathryn Spence Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site Brimscombe Port The History Press 2012 978-0-7524-8814-1 The series is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by Snowdon and verses by John Betjeman – The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment Adam Fergusson Compton Russell Salisbury 1973 9780859550024 Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1970 Buildings opened thumb|Usdan Center thumb|Cathedral of Brasília, Brazil March 7 – John Hancock Center official opening ceremony, by Bruce Graham/ SOM, in Chicago, Illinois. May 31 – Cathedral of Brasília, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is dedicated. July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt (officially opened in January 1971).Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 28 April 2013 August – Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō, cenotaph in Osaka, Japan. November 1 — Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates.Yue Chen Usdan History https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/tarausdan/home/archive/usdan-history tarausdan 12 October 2020 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.History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey https://web.archive.org/web/20131228040848/http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/history-twin-towers.html 2013-12-28 .PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015 Buildings completed thumb|right|Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters thumb|Contemporary Art Museum in Skopje, North Macedonia Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters, later known as the Pirelli Tire Building, a brutalist landmark in New Haven, Connecticut designed by Marcel Breuer.Dickinson Duo After A Dozen Years, New Interest In Adaptive Reuse Of Iconic Pirelli Building http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html 27 October 2018 Hartford Courant 22 December 2016 the building, which was finished in 1970 27 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181027190422/http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html dead Cogley Bridget Brutalist Breuer building owned by IKEA could become hotel in Connecticut https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/26/brutalist-marcel-breuer-pirelli-tire-building-new-haven-connecticut-hotel-ikea/ de zeen Breuer completed the ... building ... in 1970 27 October 2018 CBR Building in Brussels, Belgium by Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs.CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed 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).John Bancroft Utopia London http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft 2010 2017-09-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20161110042132/http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft 2016-11-10 usurped 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 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.http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2870 Tokyo World Trade Center Building 2009-10-16 Skyscraperpage.com Yerevan Chess House, Armenia. Queensgate Market, Huddersfield, England, by J. Seymour Harris Partnership (Gwyn Roberts, project architect).Christopher Marsden February 2009 Queensgate Market, Huddersfield Building of the month http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/queensgate-market-huddersfield/ The Twentieth Century Society 2015-02-06 Równica Sanatorium, Ustroń-Zawodzie, Poland. Capel Manor House, Horsmonden, Kent, England, by Michael Manser.Living in a glass house Caroline Ednie http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1 Qatar Tribune 2013-02-02 2018-01-19 dead https://archive.today/20130201163506/http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1 2013-02-01 The Cornell Campus Store, an underground shopping arcade at Cornell University, by Earl FlansburghThe Cornell Store Facility Information https://www.fs.cornell.edu/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2088 https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214728/https://www.fs.cornell.edu/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2088 dead August 26, 2018 Cornell University 26 August 2018 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 RIBA 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 Category:20th-century architecture