Overview of the events of 1965 in architecture
The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures [ edit ] Buildings opened [ edit ] Toronto City Hall opening Gateway Arch , St. Louis , USA Arctic Cathedral , Tromsø , Norway August 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway , Ireland , designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.[2] September – Toronto City Hall in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . October 6 October 28 – Gateway Arch (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri , designed by Eero Saarinen . November 19 – Arctic Cathedral , Tromsø , Norway, designed by Jan Inge Hovig , is dedicated.[3] December 28 – Museo de Arte de Ponce , Puerto Rico , designed by Edward Durell Stone . Shalom Meir Tower in Tel-Aviv , Israel , designed by Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv and Meir Levy. The first phase of the University of California, Irvine campus, designed by William Pereira . The first phase of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, designed by John Carl Warnecke . Buildings completed [ edit ] Akosombo Dam , Ghana . Holyoke Center at Harvard University , Boston , United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert . Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago , United States, designed by Jacques Brownson of C. F. Murphy Associates. NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 , Florida , United States. Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland , designed by Alvar Aalto . St Michael and All Angels Church , Woodchurch , Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners. Nozema Zendstation, The Hague , Netherlands . Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion , London Zoo , designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder. Le Corbusier January 11 – Florestano Di Fausto , Italian architect working around the Mediterranean (born 1890 ) January 23 – Ingrid Wallberg , Swedish architect (born 1890) May 10 – Karl Burman , Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882 ) June 21 – Kay Fisker , Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893 ) August 6 – Donald McMorran , English neo-Georgian architect (born 1904 ) August 27 – Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer (born 1887 ) September 13 – Louis Laybourne Smith , Australian architect and educator (born 1880 )[4] November 30 – William Strudwick Arrasmith , American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (born 1898 ) References [ edit ] ^ Zhongije Lin (2010). Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement . Abingdon: Routledge. p. 168. ^ "About Galway Cathedral" . Galway Cathedral. Retrieved 2012-07-17 . ^ "The Cathedral" . Ishavskatetralen . Tromsdalen Kirke. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2012-12-11 . ^ Page, Michael (1986). Sculptors in Space: South Australian Architects 1836–1986 . Adelaide, Australia: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (South Australian Chapter). ISBN 0-9588233-0-8