1970 in architecture

• September 23–29 – Adam Fergusson's essay criticising inappropriate development in the historic English city of Bath, Somerset, "The Sack of Bath", is published in The Times newspaper by the editor William Rees-Mogg, a landmark in concern for architectural conservation in Britain.{{cite book|first=Cathryn|last=Spence|title=Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site|location=Brimscombe Port|publisher=The History Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-7524-8814-1}} The series is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by Snowdon and verses by John Betjeman – {{cite book|title=The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment|first=Adam|last=Fergusson|publisher=Compton Russell|location=Salisbury|year=1973|isbn=9780859550024}}

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• March 7 – John Hancock Center official opening ceremony, by Bruce Graham/ SOM, in Chicago, Illinois.
• May 31 – Cathedral of Brasília, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is dedicated.
• July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt (officially opened in January 1971).[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/40203/Aswan-High-Dam Encyclopædia Britannica]. Accessed 28 April 2013
• August – Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō, cenotaph in Osaka, Japan.
• November 1 — Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates.{{cite web |last1=Yue |first1=Chen |title=Usdan History |url=https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/tarausdan/home/archive/usdan-history |website=tarausdan |accessdate=12 October 2020}}
• December 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, by Minoru Yamasaki, is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world. The building accepts its first tenants that same month.[http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/history-twin-towers.html History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228040848/http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/history-twin-towers.html |date=2013-12-28 }}.PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015

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• Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters, later known as the Pirelli Tire Building, a brutalist landmark in New Haven, Connecticut designed by Marcel Breuer.{{cite news |last1=Dickinson |first1=Duo |title=After A Dozen Years, New Interest In Adaptive Reuse Of Iconic Pirelli Building |url=http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html |accessdate=27 October 2018 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=22 December 2016 |quote=the building, which was finished in 1970 |archive-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027190422/http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Cogley |first1=Bridget |title=Brutalist Breuer building owned by IKEA could become hotel in Connecticut |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/26/brutalist-marcel-breuer-pirelli-tire-building-new-haven-connecticut-hotel-ikea/ |website=de zeen |quote=Breuer completed the ... building ... in 1970|accessdate=27 October 2018}}
• CBR Building in Brussels, Belgium by Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs.[https://monument.heritage.brussels/nl/Watermaal-Bosvoorde/Terhulpsesteenweg/185/26284 CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed]
• 11 Stanwix Street (Westinghouse Tower) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• East Harlem Pre-School in New York City, by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson.
• Pimlico Secondary School in London, England, by John Bancroft of the Greater London Council architecture department (demolished 2010).{{cite web|title=John Bancroft|work=Utopia London|url=http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft|year=2010|accessdate=2017-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110042132/http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft|archive-date=2016-11-10|url-status=usurped}}
• Euston Tower in London, England.
• One Palliser Square in Calgary, Alberta
• KEMO Toren telecommunications tower in Arnhem, Netherlands.
• Mount Angel Abbey Library in St. Benedict, near Mount Angel, Oregon, by Alvar Aalto.
• Central Library, University of California, San Diego, by William Pereira.
• Contemporary Art Museum in Skopje, by the "Warsaw Tigers" (Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki).
• Kettle's Yard art gallery extension in Cambridge, England, by Leslie Martin.
• Oklahoma Theater Center in Oklahoma City, by John M. Johansen.
• Phillips Exeter Athletics at Exeter, New Hampshire, by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.
• Trust Bank Building in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• The Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland, by RMJM.
• The Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, England, by Victor Pasmore.
• World Trade Center (Tokyo), Japan's tallest building at this time.{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2870|title=Tokyo World Trade Center Building|accessdate=2009-10-16|publisher=Skyscraperpage.com}}
• Yerevan Chess House, Armenia.
• Queensgate Market, Huddersfield, England, by J. Seymour Harris Partnership (Gwyn Roberts, project architect).{{cite web|first=Christopher|last=Marsden|date=February 2009|title=Queensgate Market, Huddersfield|work=Building of the month|url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/queensgate-market-huddersfield/|publisher=The Twentieth Century Society|accessdate=2015-02-06}}
• Równica Sanatorium, Ustroń-Zawodzie, Poland.
• Capel Manor House, Horsmonden, Kent, England, by Michael Manser.{{cite web|title=Living in a glass house|first=Caroline|last=Ednie|url=http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1|work=Qatar Tribune|date=2013-02-02|accessdate=2018-01-19|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130201163506/http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1|archivedate=2013-02-01}}
• The Cornell Campus Store, an underground shopping arcade at Cornell University, by Earl Flansburgh{{cite web |title=The Cornell Store Facility Information |url=https://www.fs.cornell.edu/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2088 |publisher=Cornell University |accessdate=26 August 2018}}

• House of Soviets (Kaliningrad), designed by Yulian L. Shvartsbreim; never completed as a functional building.

• AIA Gold Medal – Richard Buckminster Fuller
• Architecture Firm Award – Ernest J. Kump Associates
• RAIA Gold Medal – Jack McConnell
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Robert Matthew

• April 4 – Tom Wiscombe, American architect
• July 4 – Tatiana Fabeck, Luxembourg architect

• April 16 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect working in Southern California (born 1892)
• May 9 – Oscar Stonorov, German-born modernist architect and architectural writer, historian and archivist (born 1905)
• May 24 – J. George Stewart, US architect and politician (born 1890)
• July 3 – Joseph Charles Fowell, Australian architect (born 1891)
• July 11 – André Lurçat, French modernist architect, landscape architect, furniture designer and city planner (born 1894)
• July 20 – Egon Eiermann, German architect (born 1904)
• September 11 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (born 1886)
• December 29 – Rose Connor, American architect (born 1892)

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