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Overview of the events of 1963 in architecture
The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings opened
Buildings completed
St.John the Baptist Church, Ermine , Lincoln, England , designed by Sam Scorer .Bankside Power Station in London , designed by Giles Gilbert Scott . (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)Vickers Tower on Millbank in London, designed by Ronald Ward and Partners.Darwin Building , Royal College of Art , South Kensington, London, designed by H. T. and Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown , Sir Hugh Casson and Robert Goodden.Engineering Building at the University of Leicester , England , designed by James Stirling and James Gowan .[ 1]
Alpha House, Coventry , England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd .[ 2] Leicester University 's Engineering BuildingCore buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge , designed by Denys Lasdun .
Salk Institute , by Louis I. Kahn , at La Jolla, California .Exxon Building in Houston, Texas .Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan , Ivory Coast, designed by Moshe Mayer .
Jamaraat Bridge , Mina, Saudi Arabia.Kobe Port Tower in Kobe , Japan .Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York : designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.Sadovnichesky Bridge , Vodootvodny Canal , Moscow.
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References
^ Harwood, Elain (2003). England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings (rev. ed.). London: Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8818-2 ^ Cragg, Roger (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage - West Midlands . Andover: Phillimore. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-86077-572-7
