1964 in architecture

The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• 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
  • Verrazano 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

Births

• September 15 – Alan Jones, Northern Ireland-born architect
• date unknown
  • Heike Hanada, German artist, architect and teacher of architecture
  • Greg Lynn, American architect and academic

Deaths

• February 3 – Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)^[9]
• March 28 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech artist and architect (born 1884)
• June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch furniture designer and architect (born 1888)
• July 17 – Maurice Glaize, French architect and archeologist (born 1886)
• July 23 – Arkady Mordvinov, Soviet Stalinist architect (born 1896)
• November 5 – Percy Erskine Nobbs, Montreal Arts & Crafts architect (born 1875)

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