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Overview of the events of 1967 in architecture
The year 1967 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures [ edit ]
Buildings opened [ edit ]
Habitat 67 in Montreal , Canada
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
February 7 – Mortonhall Crematorium , Edinburgh , Scotland, designed by Spence , Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated.
March 1 – Queen Elizabeth Hall concert venue on the South Bank in London, England, designed by Hubert Bennett , head of the architects department of the Greater London Council , with Jack Whittle, F. G West and Geoffrey Horsefall, structural engineering by Ove Arup & Partners and construction by Higgs and Hill .[2]
April – Habitat 67 in Montreal , Quebec , Canada designed by Moshe Safdie as part of Expo 67 .[3] [4]
May 14 – Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral , England, designed by Frederick Gibberd , is consecrated.[5]
August 20 - San Diego Stadium , San Diego, California , designed by Frank Hope and Associates.
September 3 – Essingebron , Stockholm, Sweden.
September 4 – Ponte Morandi , Genoa , Italy, designed by Riccardo Morandi .
The Fashion Island shopping mall in Newport Beach , California , designed by William Pereira and Welton Becket .
Buildings completed [ edit ]
Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal , Canada
Ypres Cloth Hall in Ypres , Belgium
December – Tour du Midi , Brussels , Belgium .
Avord Tower , Regina, Saskatchewan , Canada[6] [7]
El Menzah Sports Palace , Tunis, Tunisia.
Ostankino Tower , Moscow , Russia ; it will remain the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the completion of the CN Tower.
Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal , Quebec , Canada.
Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Tile Cross , Birmingham , England, designed by Richard Gilbert Scott .
Blessed Sacrament Church , Gorseinon , Wales, designed by Robert Robinson.
Church of St Mary the Immaculate Conception , Failsworth , England, designed by Tadeusz Lesisz of Greenhalgh & Williams.
The Kaknästornet TV Tower in Stockholm , Sweden .
Berkeley Library , Trinity College Dublin , Ireland, designed by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek .
Australia Square in Sydney , Australia .
The Marine Midland Bank Building in Manhattan , New York , United States .
The South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa, California , designed by Victor Gruen , is opened.
Reliance Controls factory, Swindon , the last design by Team 4 (Su and Richard Rogers and Wendy and Norman Foster ), considered the first example of High-tech architecture in the United Kingdom , is opened (demolished 1991).[8]
First stage of Cumbernauld Town Centre , the main shopping centre for the New town of Cumbernauld , Scotland , widely accepted as the United Kingdom 's first shopping mall and the world's first multi-level covered town centre (partly demolished 2001).[9]
The first part of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower in Toronto , Ontario , Canada, designed by Mies van der Rohe ; it becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1967–1972).
Ypres Cloth Hall , reconstructed to its pre-World War I condition under the guidance of architects J. Coomans and P.A. Pauwels.
Josef Frank
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