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Overview of the events of 1970 in architecture
The year 1970 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Usdan Center
Cathedral of Brasília , Brazil
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).
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August –
Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō , cenotaph in
Osaka , Japan.
November 1 — Usdan Student Center,
Brandeis University , designed by
Hugh Stubbins and Associates.
[3]
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.
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Buildings completed
Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters
Contemporary Art Museum in
Skopje , North Macedonia
Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters, later known as the Pirelli Tire Building, a brutalist landmark in
New Haven, Connecticut designed by
Marcel Breuer .
[5]
[6]
CBR Building in
Brussels, Belgium by
Constantin Brodzki and Marcel Lambrichs.
[7]
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 ).
[8]
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.
[9]
Yerevan Chess House , Armenia.
Queensgate Market,
Huddersfield , England, by J. Seymour Harris Partnership (Gwyn Roberts, project architect).
[10]
Równica Sanatorium, Ustroń-Zawodzie, Poland.
Capel Manor House ,
Horsmonden , Kent, England, by
Michael Manser .
[11]
The Cornell Campus Store, an underground shopping arcade at
Cornell University , by
Earl Flansburgh
[12]
Buildings started
Awards
Births
Deaths
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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ISBN
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ISBN
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^ Yue, Chen.
"Usdan History" . tarausdan . Retrieved 12 October 2020 .
^
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^ Dickinson, Duo (22 December 2016).
"After A Dozen Years, New Interest In Adaptive Reuse Of Iconic Pirelli Building" . Hartford Courant. Archived from
the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018 . the building, which was finished in 1970
^ Cogley, Bridget.
"Brutalist Breuer building owned by IKEA could become hotel in Connecticut" . de zeen . Retrieved 27 October 2018 . Breuer completed the ... building ... in 1970
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CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed
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"John Bancroft" . Utopia London . 2010. Archived from
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^ Marsden, Christopher (February 2009).
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"Living in a glass house" . Qatar Tribune . Archived from
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