1966 in architecture

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The year 1966 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

June - Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, opens as a largest hospital of North America.
October 28 - The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
December 1966 - British Telecom Tower in Birmingham, West Midlands, England is completed.
New Hall, Cambridge, England, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, is completed.^[1]
CN Tower (Edmonton), is completed as the first skyscraper in the city of Edmonton, and tallest building in Western Canada until 1971.
Fire Station Number 4 in Columbus, Indiana, by Robert Venturi, is completed.
Lovejoy Plaza in Portland, Oregon, by Lawrence Halprin, is designed.
The Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, England, designed by Owen Luder and Rodney Gordon, is opened.
Whitney Museum in New York City, by Marcel Breuer, is completed.

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 is passed by the United States Congress and signed into law, forming much of the foundation of architectural renovation and rehabilitation in that country.
Construction begins on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York.

↑ Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.

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