1969 in architecture

The year 1969 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

• January 8 – At the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building is begun, with ground-breaking by President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and the Secretary S. Dillon Ripley.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

Fernsehturm Berlin

• March 7 – The John Hancock Center in Chicago, Illinois, by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
• June – Houses for Visiting Mathematicians, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, designed by Bill Howell of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis.[1]
• September 18 – Dresden TV tower (Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwit) begins radio transmission in Dresden, Germany.
• October 3 – Fernsehturm Berlin (Berlin TV tower) in East Berlin, Germany.
• St. John's Beacon in Liverpool, England.

Buildings completed

• Knights of Columbus Building (New Haven, Connecticut), designed by Roche-Dinkeloo
• One New York Plaza, Manhattan, New York City, designed by William Lescaze & Associates and Kahn & Jacobs
• Bank One Plaza, Chicago, Illinois (renamed as the Chase Tower on October 24, 2005)
• 555 California Street (formerly The Bank of America Center), San Francisco, California, the tallest building west of the Mississippi from 1969–1972
• Sultan Yahya Petra Bridge, Kelantan, Malaysia
• Toronto-Dominion Centre (formerly the Royal Trust Tower) is partially completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Hilton Hotel, Paradise, Nevada, designed by architect Martin Stern, Jr.
• Ullasund Bridge, Norway (replaced in 1998)[2]
• Wyndham Court, Southampton, England[3]
• Span Developments houses at New Ash Green, Kent, England, designed by Eric Lyons[4]
• Benjamin's Mount, Perry House or Teesdale (private residence), Westwood Road, Windlesham, Surrey, England, designed by Ernő Goldfinger[5]
• Taivallahti Church, Helsinki, Finland, designed by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen in 1960

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – William Wilson Wurster.
• Architecture Firm Award – Jones & Emmons.
• RAIA Gold Medal – Robin Boyd.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Jack Antonio Coia.
• Twenty-five Year Award – Rockefeller Center

Births

• February 28 – Sadie Morgan, English architect and designer
• date unknown – Sami Rintala, Finnish architect and artist

Deaths

Walter Gropius

• February 11 – Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, Nevada-based architect (born 1882)
• May 23 – Owen Williams, English structural engineer (died 1969)
• July 5 – Walter Gropius, German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School[6] (born 1883)
• August 8 – Welton Becket, Los Angeles architect (born 1902)
• August 17 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect and last director of the Bauhaus[7] (born 1886)
• August 19 – Sir Percy Thomas, Cardiff-based architect (born 1883)
• November 7 – Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Italian architect, writer and educator (born 1909)
• December 15 – Ruth Rivera Marín, Mexican architect (born 1927)

References

1. Historic England. "Houses for Visiting Mathematicians, University of Warwick (1392017)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
2. "Ullasundbrua" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
3. Historic England. "Wyndham Court including raised terrace and ramps; Wyndham Court including terraces and ramps (1051043)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
4. Darley, Gillian (2017). "1969". In The Twentieth Century Society (ed.). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. pp. 116–17. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
5. Historic England. "Benjamin's Mount and attached steps (1245054)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
6. Bauhaus Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, The Tate Collection, retrieved 2008-05-18
7. "Mies van der Rohe Dies at 83; Leader of Modern Architecture". The New York Times. August 17, 1969. Retrieved 2007-07-21.