The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures
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Buildings opened
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Toronto City Hall opening
Gateway Arch , St. Louis , USA
Arctic Cathedral , Tromsø , Norway
August 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway , Ireland , designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.[2]
September – Toronto City Hall in Toronto , Ontario , Canada .
October 6
October 28 – Gateway Arch (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri , designed by Eero Saarinen .
November 19 – Arctic Cathedral , Tromsø , Norway, designed by Jan Inge Hovig , is dedicated.[3]
December 28 – Museo de Arte de Ponce , Puerto Rico , designed by Edward Durell Stone .
Shalom Meir Tower in Tel-Aviv , Israel , designed by Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv and Meir Levy.
The first phase of the University of California, Irvine campus, designed by William Pereira .
The first phase of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, designed by John Carl Warnecke .
Buildings completed
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Akosombo Dam , Ghana .
Holyoke Center at Harvard University , Boston , United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert .
Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago , United States, designed by Jacques Brownson of C. F. Murphy Associates.
NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 , Florida , United States.
Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland , designed by Alvar Aalto .
St Michael and All Angels Church , Woodchurch , Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners.
Nozema Zendstation, The Hague , Netherlands .
Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion , London Zoo , designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder.
Le Corbusier
January 11 – Florestano Di Fausto , Italian architect working around the Mediterranean (born 1890 )
January 23 – Ingrid Wallberg , Swedish architect (born 1890)
May 10 – Karl Burman , Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882 )
June 21 – Kay Fisker , Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893 )
August 6 – Donald McMorran , English neo-Georgian architect (born 1904 )
August 27 – Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer (born 1887 )
September 13 – Louis Laybourne Smith , Australian architect and educator (born 1880 )[4]
November 30 – William Strudwick Arrasmith , American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (born 1898 )
References
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^ Zhongije Lin (2010). Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement . Abingdon: Routledge. p. 168.
^ "About Galway Cathedral" . Galway Cathedral. Retrieved 2012-07-17 .
^ "The Cathedral" . Ishavskatetralen . Tromsdalen Kirke. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2012-12-11 .
^ Page, Michael (1986). Sculptors in Space: South Australian Architects 1836–1986 . Adelaide, Australia: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (South Australian Chapter). ISBN 0-9588233-0-8