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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 [ edit ]
Buildings opened [ edit ]
Arrábida Bridge , Douro river, Portugal
Berliner Philharmonie , Germany
February – 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 [ edit ]
Kobe Port Tower in Kobe , Japan
St 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.
University of Leicester Engineering Building , England , designed by James Stirling and James Gowan .[2]
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 .[3]
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University , designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill .[4]
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.
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