1967 in architecture

The year 1967 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• May 25 – The Roman Curia's Sacred Congregation of Rites issues the instruction Eucharisticum Mysterium which permits celebration of Mass facing the congregation in Catholic churches, with implication for their internal layout.
• September – Demolition of Singer Building in New York City begins.
• November 7 – St Pancras railway station in London is made a Grade I listed building, regarded as a landmark in the appreciation of Victorian architecture in Britain.^[1]
• The first Conservation area (United Kingdom) is designated, in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
• Slovak Radio Building in Bratislava is begun; it will not be completed until 1983.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• February 7 – Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Spence, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated.
• 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]
• 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
  Newport Beach, California, designed by William Pereira and Welton Becket
  .

• 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
  .
• Ahrends, Burton and Koralek
  .
• 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.
• Norman Foster), considered the first example of High-tech architecture in the United Kingdom, is opened (demolished 1991).^[8]
• First stage of
  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
  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.

Awards

• Wallace Kirkman Harrison
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Alvar Aalto
• Architecture Firm Award – Hugh Stubbins and Associates
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Daniel Kahane
• RAIA Gold Medal – William Godfrey
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Nikolaus Pevsner

Births

• May 5 – Ksenija Bulatović, Serbian architect
• November 13 – Luis de Garrido, Spanish specialist in sustainable architecture
• Philippe Rahm, Swiss specialist in sustainable architecture

Deaths

• January 8 – Josef Frank, Austrian-born Swedish architect and designer (born 1885)
• Francisco Gianotti, Italian-born Art Nouveau architect (born 1881
  )
• July 6 – Piero Portaluppi, Italian architect (born 1888)
• July 21 – Eižens Laube, Latvian architect (born 1880)
• August – Malachi Leo Elliott, Florida-based architect (born 1886)
• December 6 – Robert D. Farquhar, California-based architect (born 1872)
• December 18 – Barry Byrne, American architect of the "Prairie School" (born 1883)

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