1964 in architecture
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The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
- June 11 – Reconstruction of the Wren church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London by Laurence King is completed.[1]
- Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published.
- Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.[2]
- Didcot Power Station layout in England is designed by Frederick Gibberd.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- 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.[3]
- 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.
- 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.[4]
- The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.[4][5]
- 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).[6]
- 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).[7]
- New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.[8]
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