1956 in architecture
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The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.
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- Capitol Records Building completed in Hollywood, California, as the worlds first round office building, by architect Welton Becket.
- Crown Hall is finished at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
- General Motors Technical Center, designed by Eero Saarinen, completed in Warren, Michigan.
- Latvian Academy of Sciences is completed in the city of Riga, designed by Lev Rudnev.
- Luzhniki Stadium completed in Moscow, Russia, USSR.
- Maisons Jaoul completed by Le Corbusier in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan completed as a cenotaph in Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
- Torre Latinoamericana completed in Mexico City, by architect Augusto H. Alvarez.
- Vidhana Soudha, completed in Bangalore, India, designed by Kengal Hanumanthaiah.
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[edit] Deaths
- September 8 - Oskar Kaufmann (born 1873)
- 7 May - Josef Hoffmann (born 1870)
