1963 in architecture

Buildings and structures

The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings opened

St.John the Baptist Church, Ermine, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.
Darwin Building, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden.
Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan.^[1]
Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.^[2]

Leicester University's Engineering Building

Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun.
Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
Exxon Building in Houston, Texas.
Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer.
Jamaraat Bridge, Mina, Saudi Arabia.
Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan.
Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
Sadovnichesky Bridge, Vodootvodny Canal, Moscow.

Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
Pennsylvania Station (New York City) by McKim, Mead and White is demolished.
Work begins on the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, designed by Denys Lasdun.
Team 4 architectural practice established by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives.
The avant-garde architectural collective Archigram stages the Living Cities exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

February 11 - Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (born 1901)
February 21 - Philip Hepworth, English architect (born 1890)
March 22 - Herbert James Rowse, English architect working in Liverpool (born 1887)
April 5 - J. J. P. Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)
April 23 - Adrian Gilbert Scott, English church architect, grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott (born 1901)

↑ Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
↑ Cragg, Roger (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage - West Midlands. Andover: Phillimore. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-86077-572-7.

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