1964 in architecture
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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.{{cite book|title=The Visitor's Guide to the City of London Churches|last=Tucker|first=T.|location=London|publisher=Friends of the City Churches|year=2006|isbn=0-9553945-0-3}}
- Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky is published.
- Dawson's Heights, social housing apartment blocks in Dulwich, south London, is designed by Kate Macintosh.{{cite web|title=Dawson's Heights: the 'Italian' hill town in Dulwich|url=https://c20society.org.uk/casework/dawsons-heights-the-italian-hill-town-in-dulwich/|date=May 2012|first=Henrietta|last=Billings|accessdate=2018-01-28|publisher=The Twentieth Century Society}}
- Didcot Power Station layout in England is designed by Frederick Gibberd.
Buildings and structures
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1964}}
=Buildings opened=
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- 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.gfrfc.co.uk/the-stand|title=Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand|publisher=Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C.|location=Galashiels|first=Graeme|last=McIver|accessdate=2017-01-24}}
- 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.
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- 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.{{cite book|first=Elain|last=Harwood|title=England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2003|isbn=0-7134-8818-2}}
- The Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo, designed by Lord Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby, is completed.{{cite web|url=http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture,103,AR.html |title=ZSL Architecture |publisher=ZSL |accessdate=2008-03-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228070202/http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture%2C103%2CAR.html |archivedate=28 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}
- 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).{{cite web|title=Mission & History|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/museum/mission-history|publisher=National Museum of American History|accessdate=2018-02-14}}
- 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).{{cite web|title=The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art|url=http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation|publisher=Fondation Maeght|year=2010|accessdate=2012-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022050232/http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation|archive-date=2012-10-22|url-status=dead}}
- New House, Shipton-under-Wychwood, England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.{{cite book|page=463|first=Alan|last=Brooks|title=Oxfordshire: North and West|location=New Haven; London|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-300-20930-3|series=Pevsner Architectural Guides}}
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){{cite web|title=Sir Albert Richardson|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/albert-richardson-pra|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk|accessdate=19 January 2018}}
- 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)