1967 in architecture

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The year 1967 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Habitat 67 in Montreal, Canada designed by Moshe Safdie as part of Expo 67.
• Marina City in Chicago, designed by Bertrand Goldberg is opened.
• The Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia is completed becoming the tallest freestanding structure in the world. It held this title until the completion of the CN Tower.
• The Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is completed.
• The Marine Midland Bank Building in Manhattan, New York, United States is completed.
• The Tour du Midi in Brussels, Belgium is completed.
• The Kaknästornet TV Tower in Stockholm, Sweden is completed.

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

• Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, is consecrated.
• Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, Canada is completed.
• Australia Square in Sydney, Australia is completed.
• National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia by Roy Grounds is completed.
• The Fashion Island shopping mall in Newport Beach, California, designed by William Pereira and Welton Becket, is opened.
• The South Coast Plaza shopping mall in Costa Mesa, California, designed by Victor Gruen, is opened.
• Reliance Controls factory, Swindon, the last design by Team 4 (Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and their respective wives), considered the first example of High-tech architecture in the United Kingdom, is opened (demolished 1991).
• Completion of first stage of Cumbernauld Town Centre, the main shopping centre for the New town of Cumbernauld, Scotland, widely accepted as the United Kingdom's first shopping mall and the world's first multi-level covered town centre (partly demolished 2001).

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Wallace Kirkman Harrison
• Alvar Aalto Medal – Alvar Aalto
• Architecture Firm Award - Hugh Stubbins and Associates
• RAIA Gold Medal - William Godfrey
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Nikolaus Pevsner

Events

• October - St Pancras railway station in London is made a Grade I listed building, regarded as a landmark in the appreciation of Victorian architecture in Britain.

Deaths

• December 18 - Barry Byrne (born 1883)