1960 in architecture
The year 1960 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- January 13 - Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory officially opened in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
- April 12 - Candlestick Park opens on the shore of San Francisco Bay, by architect John Bolles.
- May 25 - Teatro General San Martín inaugurated in Buenos Aires — the first major project by Argentine architect Mario Roberto Álvarez.
- American Embassy London Chancery Building opened, designed by Eero Saarinen.
- The Chemosphere, a house designed by American architect John Lautner, completed in the Hollywood Hills, California.
- The Climatron geodesic dome opens at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, designed by Buckminster Fuller.
- Euromast is completed in Rotterdam, Netherlands from the design by Hugh Maaskant.
- Finlyandsky Rail Terminal is rebuilt in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Hooper House II completed by architect Marcel Breuer in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Mabel McDowell Elementary School was built in Columbus, Indiana, designed by architect John Carl Warnecke.
- Mirante do Vale completed as the tallest building in Brazil. Designed by engineer Waldomiro Zarzur in Downtown São Paulo.
- Napoli Centrale railway station and PalaLottomatica sports arena completed, by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, and others.
- Pirelli Tower, designed by architect Gio Ponti, with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso, completed in Milan, Italy.
- Radisson Blu Royal Hotel completed by Arne Jacobsen in Copenhagen.
- Sainte Marie de La Tourette, by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, completed for the Dominican Order near Lyon, France.
- William L. Slayton House designed by I. M. Pei, completed in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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