- 1964 in architecture
The year 1964 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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July 15 - ThePost Office Tower inLondon , designed byEric Bedford andG. R. Yeats is topped out.
*Tokyo Olympic Arena , designed byKenzo Tange is completed.
*Prudential Tower inBoston ,USA , is completed.
*Donauturm (Danube Tower) inVienna ,Austria , is completed.
*Fernmeldeturm Berlin inBerlin ,Germany , is completed after 3 years.
* TheBT Tower inLondon ,England , is topped out onJuly 15 .
* TheFernmeldeturm Ulm-Ermingen inUlm-Ermingen ,Baden-Württemberg ,Germany , is completed.
* TheErieview Tower inDowntown Cleveland ,Ohio ,United States , is completed as part of theErieview urban renewal plan.
* TheKyoto Tower inKyoto ,Japan , is completed.
* TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art , designed byWilliam Pereira , is completed.
*Pääskyvuoren linkkitorni inTurku ,Finland , is completed.
* Casino Tower inNiagara Falls is completed.
* TheUSCE Tower inBelgrade ,Serbia , is completed. It was destroyed in1999 byNATO airstrikes however was reconstructed in2004 .
*Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens inNew York Harbor .
*Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters is completed.Events
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Architecture Without Architects byBernard Rudofsky is published.Awards
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AIA Gold Medal -Pier Luigi Nervi .
*Architecture Firm Award -The Architects Collaborative .
*RAIA Gold Medal -Cobden Parkes .
*Royal Gold Medal -Maxwell Fry .
*Prix de Rome , architecture:Charles O. Perry .Births
Deaths
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February 3 - English architect, writer, and Professor of Architecture (born 1880)
*June 26 -Gerrit Rietveld (born 1888)
*Percy Erskine Nobbs (born 1875)
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