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1959 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1959 in architecture
The year 1959 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- Boardman Hall at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller and built in 1892, is demolished[1]
Buildings opened
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- May 3 – Birmingham Museum of Art (new building), Birmingham, Alabama, by Warren, Knight & Davis.
- October 21 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.[2]
Buildings completed
- Basilica of Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, designed by architect José Enrique Marrero Regalado.
- Case Study House #21: Bailey House and #22: Stahl House, by architect Pierre Koenig.
- Zigzag House, Sarasota, Florida, designed by architect Tollyn Twitchell.
- 6 Bacon's Lane, Highgate, London, designed by architect Leonard Manasseh for himself.[3]
- Chase Tower, Detroit, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn Associates.
- Kariba Dam completed between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River.
- The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia.
- Ten Great Buildings project completed in Beijing, China.
- Bracken House, the Financial Times headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Albert Richardson.[4]
- Lincoln Motors showrooms and garage, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer of Denis Clarke Hall, Scorer and Bright; engineer Dr K. Hajnal-Kónyi.[4]
- Pride Cleaners, Chicago, designed by Gerald Siegwart.[5]
- National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, designed by Le Corbusier.[6]
- Finmere Church of England Primary School, England, designed by Mary and David Medd.
- October 10 – Maya Lin, American designer and artist
- October 10 – Michael Maltzan, American architect
- Jacques Ferrier, French architect
- Lorcan O'Herlihy, Irish-born architect working in the United States
- February 23 – Gordon Wilson, Australian-born New Zealand government architect (born 1900)[7]
- April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (born 1867)
- "Olin's Predecessor: Boardman Hall". Cornell University Library. Cornell University. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- "Controversial Museum Opens in New York", The News and Courier, October 22, 1959, p. 9-A. Retrieved March 1, 2012
- The Twentieth Century Society (2017). 100 Houses 100 Years. London: Batsford. pp. 92–3. ISBN 978-1-84994-437-3.
- Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2.
- "Illinois Mid-Century Modern Roofs & Canopies". RoadsideArchitecture.com. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
- "Le Corbusier's Museum of Western Art is a modernist gem". 23 July 2016.
- Gatley, Julia. "Francis Gordon Wilson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 August 2016.