1956 in architecture
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The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- February - Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is officially opened.
- April 30 - Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez, is officially opened.
- July 31 - Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR, is officially opened.
- Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, by architect Welton Becket, is completed.
- S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe, is completed.
- General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, designed by Eero Saarinen, is completed.
- Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, designed by Lev Rudnev, is completed.
- Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed.
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
- Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.
- Bank of England Printing Works at Loughton, designed by Howard Robertson.
- Council House, Bristol, England, designed by Vincent Harris, is completed (begun 1938).
- Rødovre Town Hall, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen, is completed.
- Faculty of Letters building at the University of Reading, England, designed by Howard Robertson.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal - Clarence S. Stein.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Michel Folliasson.
- Royal Gold Medal - Walter Gropius.
Births
- January 15 - Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect and politician
- November - Teresa Borsuk, British architect
Deaths
- February 25 - Philip Tilden, English domestic architect (born 1887)
- May 7 - Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect and designer (born 1870)
- July 21 - Lionel Bailey Budden, English architect and academic (born 1877)
- September 8 - Oskar Kaufmann, Hungarian-Jewish architect known for his works in Berlin (born 1873)
- November 20 - Joseph Emberton, English modernist architect (born 1889)
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