1970 in architecture

The year 1970 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

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.^[1]

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

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).^[2]
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.^[4]

Buildings completed

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

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

Awards

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

Births

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

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)

References

^ Spence, Cathryn (2012). Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site. Brimscombe Port: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-8814-1. The series is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by Snowdon and verses by John Betjeman – Fergusson, Adam (1973). The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment. Salisbury: Compton Russell. ISBN 9780859550024.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 28 April 2013
^ Yue, Chen. "Usdan History". tarausdan. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
^ History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine.PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015
^ 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
^ CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed
^ "John Bancroft". Utopia London. 2010. Archived from the original on 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
^ "Tokyo World Trade Center Building". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
^ Marsden, Christopher (February 2009). "Queensgate Market, Huddersfield". Building of the month. The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
^ Ednie, Caroline (2013-02-02). "Living in a glass house". Qatar Tribune. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
^ "The Cornell Store Facility Information". Cornell University. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

[1] Spence, Cathryn (2012). Water, History & Style – Bath: World Heritage Site. Brimscombe Port: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-8814-1. The series is subsequently expanded into a book with photographs by Snowdon and verses by John Betjeman – Fergusson, Adam (1973). The Sack of Bath: a record and an indictment. Salisbury: Compton Russell. ISBN 9780859550024.

[2] Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 28 April 2013

[3] Yue, Chen. "Usdan History". tarausdan. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[4] History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine.PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015

[5] 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

[6] 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

[7] CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed

[8] "John Bancroft". Utopia London. 2010. Archived from the original on 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2017-09-09.

[9] "Tokyo World Trade Center Building". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2009-10-16.

[10] Marsden, Christopher (February 2009). "Queensgate Market, Huddersfield". Building of the month. The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 2015-02-06.

[11] Ednie, Caroline (2013-02-02). "Living in a glass house". Qatar Tribune. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2018-01-19.

[12] "The Cornell Store Facility Information". Cornell University. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

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