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Overview of the events of 1963 in architecture
The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures Buildings opened Arrábida Bridge , Douro river, PortugalBerliner Philharmonie , GermanyFebruary – Springs Mills Building on Manhattan , New York , United States, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz .
March 7 – MetLife Building on Manhattan, New York, United States, designed by Richard Roth.June 22 – Arrábida Bridge , Douro river, Portugal, designed by Edgar Cardoso .October 15 – Berliner Philharmonie concert hall, designed by Hans Scharoun .November – Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building in Hartford, Connecticut , designed by Max Abramovitz . Buildings completed Kobe Port Tower in Kobe , JapanSt John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln , Lincoln, England , designed by Sam Scorer .Großer Sendesaal (concert hall) of Hanover Broadcast Station in West Germany, designed by Dieter Oesterlen .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.Alexander Fleming House , Blocks A-C, at Elephant and Castle in London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger .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]
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University , designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill .[3] Core 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.Events Awards Publications Births Deaths 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 ^ "About the Building" . Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library . Yale University. Retrieved 21 September 2018 .
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