1979 in architecture
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The year 1979 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings opened
- March – Kuwait Towers opens in Kuwait City with a Viewing Sphere which completes a full turn every 30 minutes.
- August 32 – Vienna International Centre, for the United Nations Office at Vienna.[1]
- September 2 – Prabhupada's Palace of Gold is dedicated in Marshall County, West Virginia, USA, as a memorial shrine built by Hare Krishna devotees.
- September 3 – National Theater of Cuba, Havana;[2] construction of the building began in 1951.
- October 10 – The Atheneum, designed by Richard Meier, opens as a visitor center in New Harmony, Indiana.
Buildings completed
- Brønnøysund Bridge, Norway.[3]
- Parque Central Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, the tallest building in South America.
- The Tower of Europe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Rio de Janeiro Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro), with 64 meter (210 ft) tall stained glass windows.
- Hedmark Museum, Hamar, Norway, designed by Sverre Fehn.
- Bauhaus Archive, West Berlin, Germany, designed by Alexander Cvijanović with Hans Bandel after Walter Gropius.
- "Stars" housing estate, Katowice, Poland.
Events
- December: The Thirties Society (now the Twentieth Century Society) established in the United Kingdom as an architectural conservation pressure group.
- Pritzker Prize instituted by Jay A. Pritzker.
- Construction begins at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center designed by I. M. Pei.
- Xanadu House design started.
- Construction of the 360 foot (110 m) communications mast atop the North Tower (1WTC) of the World Trade Center is completed.