1956 in architecture
overview of the events of 1956 in architecture
The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave.
April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938).
April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez.
July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR.
Buildings completed
Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket.
S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe.
General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen.
Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga, Latvia, designed by Lev Rudnev.
Maisons Jaoul in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, designed by Le Corbusier in 1937.
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