1965 in architecture

The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Events

• Reconstruction of Skopje in Yugoslavia planned by Kenzō Tange and team.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• August 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Ireland, designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.
• September – Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• October 6
• Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, designed by B+H Architects.
• Post Office Tower in London, UK, designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats and topped out in 1964, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
• , Woodchurch, Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners.
• Nozema Zendstation, The Hague, Netherlands.
• , London Zoo, designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder.

Awards

• Architecture Firm Award – Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons
• RAIA Gold Medal – Osborn McCutcheon
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Kenzo Tange

Births

• April 10 – Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkinabè architect
• April 13 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect
• June 21 – Smiljan Radić Clarke, Chilean architect
• Monica Ponce de Leon, Venezuelan-born architect and educator
• Kerstin Thompson, Australian architect

Deaths

• 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)
• November 30 – William Strudwick Arrasmith, American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (born 1898)

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