- 1969 in architecture
The year 1969 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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Knights of Columbus Building inNew Haven, Connecticut , designed byRoche-Dinkeloo .
* TheJohn Hancock Center inChicago ,United States is completed.
* TheBerliner Fernsehturm inBerlin ,Germany is completed.
*Bank One Plaza inChicago ,United States is completed.
* TheFernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz inDresden ,Germany is completed.
* The Bank of America Center, now555 California Street , is completed inSan Francisco ,California ,United States .
* TheRoyal Trust Tower inToronto ,Ontario ,Canada is completed.
* The British Telecom Tower inBirmingham , West Midlands,England is completed.
* Thetelecommunication tower FMT 6 - Brackenheim inBrackenheim-Cleebronn ,Germany is completed.
* The Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas,Nevada ,United States is completed.
*January 8 : At theSmithsonian , the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building is begun, with ground-breaking by U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson ,Chief Justice Earl Warren , and the SecretaryS. Dillon Ripley .Awards
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AIA Gold Medal -William Wilson Wurster .
*Architecture Firm Award -Jones & Emmons .
*RAIA Gold Medal -Robin Boyd .
*Royal Gold Medal -Jack Antonio Coia .
*Prix de Rome , architecture: (unknown).Births
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Deaths
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February 11 -Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps (born 1882)
*5 July -Walter Gropius (born 1883)
*17 August -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born 1886)
*November 7 -Ernesto Nathan Rogers (born 1909)
*Welton Becket (born 1902)
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