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==Buildings and structures completed== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1953}} [[File:Moscow State University crop.jpg|thumb|[[Main building of Moscow State University]]]] [[File:Air Forces Memorial Runnymede.jpg|thumb|[[Air Forces Memorial]], [[Runnymede]]]] * [[Main building of Moscow State University]], [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|the tallest building in Europe]] (1953โ1990) and the [[List of tallest educational buildings|tallest educational building in the world]] (1953โpresent), designed by [[Lev Rudnev]]. * [[St Crispin's School]], [[Wokingham]], [[Berkshire]], [[England]], designed by the U.K. [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]]. * YMCA Indian Student Hostel, [[Fitzrovia]], London, designed by [[Ralph Tubbs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html|publisher=[[The Twentieth Century Society]]|title=Building of the Month|date=February 2005|accessdate=2006-07-08|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925224104/http://www.c20society.org.uk/docs/building/granada.html|archivedate=2006-09-25}}</ref> * Housing at [[Chandigarh]], [[Punjab (India)]], designed by [[Le Corbusier]] in collaboration with [[Pierre Jeanneret]], [[Jane Drew]], [[Maxwell Fry]], [[B. V. Doshi]] and others. * Mardyke Road (residential crescent), [[Harlow New Town]], England, designed by [[Frederick Gibberd]].<ref>{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3|chapter=1953}}</ref> * [[Air Forces Memorial]], [[Runnymede]], England, designed by [[Edward Maufe]], dedicated October 17. * [[English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey]], designed by [[F. X. Velarde]], dedicated August 31. * New building for [[Yale University Art Gallery]], [[New Haven, Connecticut]], the first major commission for [[Louis Kahn]], opened November. * [[Lijnbaan]] pedestrianised shopping street in [[Rotterdam]], designed by [[Jo van den Broek]] and [[Jacob B. Bakema]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archined.nl/en/forum/lijnbaan-rip/|date=2007-01-18|first1=Michelle|last1=Provoost|first2=Wouter|last2=Vanstiphout|title=Lijnbaan R.I.P.|work=ArchiNed|accessdate=2011-08-03|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145538/http://www.archined.nl/en/forum/lijnbaan-rip/|archivedate=2011-07-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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