Buildings and structures
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Buildings opened
- June 25 – Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier, is dedicated.[1]
- July 22 – Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, the tallest building in Poland (1955–present) and the second tallest in Europe (1955–1990), designed by Lev Rudnev.[1]
- August – Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, designed by Kenzō Tange.
Buildings completed
- February – Bavinger House in Norman, Oklahoma, United States, the best-known building designed by Bruce Goff.[2][3]
- MIT Chapel and Kresge Auditorium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed by Eero Saarinen.[1]
- Chapel of Trinity College, Toronto, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
- Dominus Flevit Church, Jerusalem, designed by Antonio Barluzzi.
- Restoration following bomb damage at Lambeth Palace in London, by Seely & Paget.[4]
- Reconstructed Kinkaku-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan.
- Chandigarh High Court (Palace of Justice), Chandigarh Capitol Complex, India, designed by Le Corbusier.[1]
- Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, Alberta.
- Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta.
- Punta La Entallada Lighthouse on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, designed by Carlos Alcon.
- Fundació Pilar y Joan Miró in Palma, Majorca, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
- Tate & Lyle sugar silo, Liverpool, England.[1]
- Casa Antonio Gálvez, Mexico City, designed by Luis Barragán.[1]
- House Fox, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa, designed by Revel Fox.[1]
- Houses for self at 7 Gibraltar Hill and for E. W. Scorer, both in Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer.
- House for John Womersley at Farnley Tyas, Yorkshire, England, designed by Peter Womersley.
- "Hermit's Castle", Achmelvich, Scotland, designed by David Scott.[5]
