1963 in architecture explained
The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- February – Springs Mills Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz.
- March 7 – MetLife Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth.
- June 22 – Arrábida Bridge, Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso.
- October 15 – Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun.
- November – Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Max Abramovitz.
Buildings completed
- St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
- Großer Sendesaal (concert hall) of Hanover Broadcast Station in West Germany, designed by Dieter Oesterlen.
- Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
- Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
- Alexander Fleming House, Blocks A-C, at Elephant and Castle in London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger.
- Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden.
- University of Leicester Engineering Building, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.[2]
- Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.[3]
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.[4]
- Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun.
- Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
- Exxon Building in Houston, Texas.
- Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer.
- Jamaraat Bridge, Mina, Saudi Arabia.
- Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan.
- Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
- Sadovnichesky Bridge, Vodootvodny Canal, Moscow.
Awards
Publications
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Web site: Demolition Starts At Penn Station; Architects Picket; Penn Station Demolition Begun; 6 Architects Call Act a 'Shame'. Tolchin. Martin. 1963-10-29. The New York Times. 2018-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100724/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/10/29/archives/demolition-starts-at-penn-station-architects-picket-penn-station.html. 2018-05-23. live.
- Book: Harwood, Elain. England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings. rev.. London. Batsford. 2003. 0-7134-8818-2.
- Book: Cragg, Roger. Civil Engineering Heritage – West Midlands. Andover. Phillimore. 2010. 978-1-86077-572-7. 130.
- Web site: About the Building . Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library . Yale University . 21 September 2018.