1956 in architecture

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S. R. Crown Hall by Mies van der Rohe

The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• 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.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Clarence S. Stein.
• Royal Gold Medal - Walter Gropius.

Deaths

• September 8 - Oskar Kaufmann (born 1873)
• 7 May - Josef Hoffmann (born 1870)