1966 in architecture
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The year 1966 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen is completed.
- The Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, opens in June as a largest hospital of North America.
- CN Tower (Edmonton), is completed as the first skycraper in the city of Edmonton, and tallest building in Western Canada.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal - Kenzo Tange.
- RAIA Gold Medal - William Laurie.
- Royal Gold Medal - Ove Arup.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
Events
- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi is published, his first attack on modernist architecture.
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