1956 in architecture
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The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings opened
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- February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
- April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938).[1]
- April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
- July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.
Buildings completed
- Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket.
- S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe.
- General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen.
- Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.[citation needed]
- Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.[2]
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.[3]
- Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.[4]
- Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson.
- National Pensions Institute, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
- Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen.
- St Mark's Church (Markuskyrkan), Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz.
- Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson.
- Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow, Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.[5]
- H. J. Lovink Pumping Station on the Flevopolder in the Netherlands, designed by Dirk Roosenburg.[6]
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Clarence S. Stein.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Michel Folliasson.
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Walter Gropius.
