Editing 1952 in architecture (section)

===Buildings===
[[File:LiljestrandHouse-from-driveway-near.jpg|thumb|[[Liljestrand House]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]]]]
[[File:SaynatsaloTownHall4.jpg|thumb|[[Säynätsalo Town Hall]] in Finland]]
* April – [[Stockwell Garage]], designed by [[Adie, Button and Partners]], with engineer [[A. E. Beer]], is opened by [[London Transport Executive|London Transport]].
* December 15 – The [[Sands Hotel]], designed by [[Wayne McAllister]], is opened on the [[Las Vegas Strip]] (demolished 30 June 1996).
* [[Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects]], completed in the [[Brush Park]] section of [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]].
* [[Edificio Miguel E. Abed]] completed in [[Mexico City]] using the latest technology for [[earthquake engineering]].
* [[Kotelnicheskaya Embankment]] apartments completed in the central [[Tagansky District]] in [[Moscow]], and one of the "[[Seven Sisters (Moscow)|Seven Sisters]]".
* [[Lever House]], designed by [[Gordon Bunshaft]] and [[Natalie de Blois]] of [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]], is completed at 390 Park Avenue in [[New York City]].
* [[Liljestrand House]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], designed by [[Vladimir Ossipoff]], is completed.
* [[Utzon's House in Hellebæk]] (Denmark), designed by [[Jørn Utzon]] for himself, is built.
* [[Säynätsalo Town Hall]] in [[Finland]], designed by [[Alvar Aalto]], is completed.
* [[Unité d'Habitation]] in [[Marseille]], designed by [[Le Corbusier]], is completed.
* [[Pedregulho Housing Complex]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]], designed by [[Affonso Eduardo Reidy]], is inaugurated.
* [[United Nations Secretariat Building]] on Manhattan, designed by France's [[Le Corbusier]] and Brazil's [[Oscar Niemeyer]], is completed.
* [[Dorton Arena]] ("Paraboleum"), [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], designed by [[Maciej Nowicki (architect)|Matthew Nowicki]] (died [[1950 in architecture|1950]]), is built.