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
March 7 – John Hancock Center official opening ceremony, by Bruce Graham / SOM , in Chicago, Illinois.
May 31 – Cathedral of Brasilia , 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
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)
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 .