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1956 in architecture

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The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

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=Buildings opened=

File:Muenster Stadttheater (81).JPG, Germany]]

=Buildings completed=

File:Crown Hall 1.jpg at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA]]

File:GhinggisKhanMausoleum.jpg in Inner Mongolia, China]]

  • 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|date=June 2018}}
  • Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.{{cite book|first1=Kenneth|last1=Frampton|first2=Roberto|last2=Schezen|title=Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century|location=New York|publisher=H.N. Abrams|date=2002|page=14.153}}
  • Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.{{citation|last=Bayar|first=Nasan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7nWJKLr-8wC|title=The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia|editor=Uradyn Erden Bulag|editor2=Hildegard G.M. Diemberger|display-editors=0|editor3=Henk Blezer|editor4=Alex McKay|editor5=Charles Ramble|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|series=Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003|year=2007|contribution=On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7nWJKLr-8wC&pg=PA197|pages=211|isbn=9789004155213}}
  • Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.{{cite book|first=Jon T. |last=Lang|title=A concise history of modern architecture in India|year=2002|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-017-6|pages=40–41}}
  • 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.{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|author-link=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3}}
  • H. J. Lovink Pumping Station on the Flevopolder in the Netherlands, designed by Dirk Roosenburg.{{cite web|title=Gemaal Lovink|trans-title=Lovink Pumping Station|language=Dutch|work=Flevoland Heritage|publisher=Fleurbaaij Kunst & Cultuur|url=https://www.flevolanderfgoed.nl/home/erfgoed/oostelijk-flevoland-2/gemalen-2/gemaal-lovink.html|access-date=2024-06-09|archive-date=2023-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927143653/https://www.flevolanderfgoed.nl/home/erfgoed/oostelijk-flevoland-2/gemalen-2/gemaal-lovink.html}}

Awards

Births

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Deaths

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