1958 in architecture

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The year 1958 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• The Atomium is opened in Brussels, designed by André Waterkeyn.
• Center of New Industries and Technologies, completed at La Défense in Paris, by engineer Jean Prouvé.
• Kulttuuritalo (English: The House of Culture) completed in Helsinki, designed by Alvar Aalto.
• Palácio da Alvorada (English: Palace of Dawn) completed in Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer.
• Philips Pavilion for Expo '58 in Brussels, by Iannis Xenakis.
• Seagram Building completed in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• Tokyo Tower opens in Shiba Park, Tokyo, Japan, by Tachū Naitō.
• Time-Life Building, designed by Wallace Harrison, opens in Rockefeller Center, New York City.
• Dirksen Senate Office Building opens in Washington, D.C., designed by Eggers & Higgins from New York.

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Henry R. Shepley.
• AIA Gold Medal - John Wellborn Root.
• Royal Gold Medal - Robert Schofield Morris.

Events

• February 28 - The Victorian Society, the pressure group for the promotion and protection of Victorian and Edwardian Baroque architecture and related arts in the United Kingdom, holds its first meeting at Linley Sambourne House.

Deaths

• January 8 - Mary Colter (born 1869)
• June 17 - Wells Coates (born 1895)
• October 25 - James Walter Chapman-Taylor (born 1878)
• Violet Morris (born 1878)