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1974 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1974 in architecture
The year 1974 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- Heikkinen – Komonen Architects established by Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen in Helsinki, Finland.
Buildings opened
- Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
- Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham, UK, designed by John Madin (closed 2013).
- Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court in Westminster, London, designed by C. A. Legerton
Buildings completed
- May 18 – The Warsaw radio mast in Poland, the second tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991).
- date unknown
- Renaissance Tower in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- AT&T Long Lines Building, 33 Thomas Street, New York, USA, designed by John Carl Warnecke.
- Kamzik TV Tower in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Guy's Tower in London, United Kingdom, the world's tallest hospital at this time.
- Hudson Bay Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Palace of Weddings, Vilnius, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, designed by Gediminas Baravykas.
- Plastic classroom, Kennington Primary School, Preston, England.[1]
- Hotel du Lac, Tunis, designed by Raffaele Contigiani.
- Laurie Short House in Sydney, Australia, designed by Glenn Murcutt.
- October 2 – Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect
- March 17 – Louis Kahn, American architect based in Philadelphia, USA (born 1901)
- April 6 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (born 1884)
- April 25 – Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (born 1888)[2]
- September 3 - Romuald Gutt, Polish architect (born 1888)
- November 28 – Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect and painter (born 1890)
- December 12 – Sir Edward Maufe, English architect (born 1882)
- "Plastic Classroom at Kennington Primary School". English Heritage. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
- "Social and Personal: In Memoriam". Times of Malta. 25 April 2002. Retrieved 23 December 2018.