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Overview of the events of 1956 in architecture
The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
Theater Münster, Germany
- February –
Price Tower,
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright.
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February 4 –
Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
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April 17 –
Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by
Vincent Harris (begun
1938).
[1]
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April 30 –
Torre Latinoamericana in
Mexico City, Mexico, designed by
Augusto H. Alvarez.
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July 31 –
Luzhniki Stadium in
Moscow, Russia, USSR.
Buildings completed
S. R. Crown Hall at the
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in
Inner Mongolia, China
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Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect
Welton Becket.
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S. R. Crown Hall at the
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department
Mies van der Rohe.
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General Motors Technical Center in
Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by
Eero Saarinen.
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Latvian Academy of Sciences,
Riga, Latvia, designed by
Lev Rudnev.[
citation needed]
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Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of
Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by
Le Corbusier in 1937.
[2]
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Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a
cenotaph in
Inner Mongolia,
People's Republic of China.
[3]
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Vidhana Soudha, completed in
Bangalore, India, designed by
Kengal Hanumanthaiah.
[4]
- Bank of England Printing Works at
Loughton, designed by
Howard Robertson.
- National Pensions Institute,
Helsinki, Finland, designed by
Alvar Aalto.
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Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by
Arne Jacobsen.
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St Mark's Church (Markuskyrkan),
Björkhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, designed by
Sigurd Lewerentz.
- Faculty of Letters building at the
University of Reading, England, UK, designed by Howard Robertson.
- Rothschild estate cottages, Poplar Meadow,
Rushbrooke, Suffolk, England, UK, designed by John Weeks.
[5]
Awards
Births
Josef Hoffmann
Deaths
References
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^
"The Visit to Bristol of Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh on April 17 1956". Retrieved June 20, 2018.
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^ Frampton, Kenneth; Schezen, Roberto (2002). Le Corbusier: architect of the twentieth century. New York: H.N. Abrams. p. 14.153.
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^ Bayar, Nasan (2007),
"On Chinggis Khan and Being Like a Buddha: A Perspective on Cultural Conflation in Contemporary Inner Mongolia",
The Mongolia–Tibet Interface: Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia, Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Vol. 10/9, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the IATS, Oxford, 2003, Leiden: Brill, p. 211,
ISBN
9789004155213
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^ Lang, Jon T. (2002). A concise history of modern architecture in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 40–41.
ISBN
978-81-7824-017-6.
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^
The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford.
ISBN
978-1-84994-437-3.