1976 in architecture

• October 4 – Tax Reform Act of 1976 in the United States is signed into law, establishing tax incentives designed to encourage the preservation of historic structures.

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• October – Wotruba Church (Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit) in Vienna, to a design by Fritz Wotruba, completed.
• October 1 – CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designed by WZMH Architects and John Andrews, opened.{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/topics/travel/story.html?id=057d78dc-4964-422f-ba85-361425ea8126&k=3499|title=CN Tower celebrates 30th birthday|access-date=2014-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622034959/http://www.canada.com/topics/travel/story.html?id=057d78dc-4964-422f-ba85-361425ea8126&k=3499|archive-date=2015-06-22|url-status=dead}} Broadcast News/canada.com 2006-06-26.
• October 25 – Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank, designed by Denys Lasdun, opened.
• November 26 – The OCBC Centre in Singapore, designed by I. M. Pei & Partners, completed.
• Bagsværd Church in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Jørn Utzon, completed.
• John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners.
• Scotia Centre (Calgary) in Calgary, Alberta.
• Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates, is completed.
• Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate (now 102 Petty France), Westminster, London, designed by Basil Spence.
• Guildhall Library, Guildhall, London (City), designed by Richard Gilbert Scott, completed.{{cite news|title=Richard Gilbert Scott|first=Gavin |last=Stamp|author-link=Gavin Stamp|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London|date=2017-07-15|issue=53150|page=38|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/12/richard-gilbert-scott-obituary|access-date=2017-07-15}}
• Salters' Hall in the City of London, designed by Sir Basil Spence.
• Water Tower Place in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Edward D. Dart of Loebl Schlossman Bennett and Dart.
• Fernmeldeturm Koblenz near Koblenz in Germany.{{Structurae|id=20000120|title=Kühkopf Transmission Tower}}.
• El Parque de la Marca Hispanica, Le Perthus, on the French/Spanish border, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura, completed.
• Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg, South Africa, designed by Mannie Feldman.
• ABSA Tower in Johannesburg.
• First planned residential development at South Woodham Ferrers in England.
• Hopkins House, Hampstead, London, designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins as a home and architectural studio for themselves.{{cite news|last=Merrick|first=Jay|title=The Brits Who Built the Modern World and 49b - the house built by High Tech designers Michael and Patty Hopkins|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/the-brits-who-built-the-modern-world-and-49b-the-house-built-by-high-tech-designers-michael-and-8950228.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/the-brits-who-built-the-modern-world-and-49b-the-house-built-by-high-tech-designers-michael-and-8950228.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|location=London|date=2013-11-19|access-date=2018-01-07}}{{cbignore}}
• The Round House (bungalow) at Stoke Canon in England, designed by Peter Blundell Jones and Gillian Smith.
• The replacement replica Kaohsiung Confucius Temple is built in Taiwan.
• Młotek in Warsaw, Poland, designed by Jan Bogusławski and Bohdan Gniewiewski.

• Architecture Firm Award – Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
• Grand prix national de l'architecture – Roger Taillibert
• Rome Prize for architecture – Gunnar Birkerts
• RAIA Gold Medal – Harry Seidler
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – John Summerson
• Twenty-five Year Award – 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments

• 1976 – Ott Kadarik, Estonian architect
• date unknown – Antonio Pio Saracino, Italian-born US architect{{cite news|title=The Ecstatic Design of Antonio Pio Saracino|first=Staisey|last=Benelli

|url=http://www.ganzomag.com/the-ecstatic-design-of-antonio-pio-saracino.html|newspaper=GanzoMag|date=May 22, 2011|access-date=2013-10-22}}

• January 26 – Eric Francis, British architect and painter (born 1887)
• May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designer, sculptor and painter (born 1898){{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Chilvers|editor-first=Ian|title=Aalto, Alvar|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Art|edition=3rd|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford, UK|isbn=0-19-860476-9|orig-year=1988|year=2004}}
• November 19 – Sir Basil Spence, Scottish Modernist/Brutalist architect (born 1907)
• Nugent Cachemaille-Day, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1896)

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