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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1955}} [[File:RonchampCorbu.jpg|thumb|[[Notre Dame du Haut]]]] [[File:Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw (by Pudelek).jpg|thumb|The [[Palace of Culture and Science]] in Warsaw]] [[File:Entallada Lighthouse.jpg|thumb|[[Punta La Entallada Lighthouse]] on [[Fuerteventura]], Canary Islands, Spain]] ===Buildings opened=== * [[June 25]] – [[Notre Dame du Haut]] in [[Ronchamp]], [[France]], designed by [[Le Corbusier]], is dedicated.<ref name=1001B>{{cite book|title=1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die|editor=Irving, Mark|publisher=Cassell|location=London|year=2001|isbn=978-1-84403-578-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/1001buildingsyou0000unse}}</ref> * [[July 22]] – [[Palace of Culture and Science]] in [[Warsaw]], [[List of tallest buildings in Poland|the tallest building in Poland]] (1955–present) and [[List of tallest buildings in Europe|the second tallest in Europe]] (1955–1990), designed by [[Lev Rudnev]].<ref name=1001B /> * August – [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], Japan, designed by [[Kenzō Tange]]. ===Buildings completed=== * February – [[Bavinger House]] in [[Norman, Oklahoma]], [[United States]], the best-known building designed by [[Bruce Goff]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1300_217/ai_n14809372/|work=[[Architectural Review]]|title=Saving Bruce Goff|first=Michael|last=Webb|date=June 2005|accessdate=2013-10-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Space and Saucer House: Oklahoma family lives in suspension in a unique new structure|date=1955-09-19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1YEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA155|work=[[Life (magazine)|Life]]|pages=155–156|accessdate=2016-01-06}}</ref> * [[MIT Chapel]] and [[Kresge Auditorium]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], designed by [[Eero Saarinen]].<ref name=1001B /> * Chapel of [[Trinity College, Toronto]], designed by [[Giles Gilbert Scott]]. * [[Dominus Flevit Church]], [[Jerusalem]], designed by [[Antonio Barluzzi]]. * Restoration following bomb damage at [[Lambeth Palace]] in London, by [[Seely & Paget]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/pl-lambeth-palace-character-appraisal-2017.pdf|title=Lambeth Palace Conservation Area. Conservation Area Character Appraisal|publisher=Lambeth Council|year=2017|format=PDF|accessdate=2023-03-20}}</ref> * Reconstructed [[Kinkaku-ji]] temple in [[Kyoto]], Japan. * [[Chandigarh High Court]] (Palace of Justice), [[Chandigarh Capitol Complex]], India, designed by [[Le Corbusier]].<ref name=1001B /> * [[Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium]] in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]]. * [[Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium]] in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]]. * [[Punta La Entallada Lighthouse]] on [[Fuerteventura]], Canary Islands, designed by Carlos Alcon. * Fundació Pilar y Joan Miró in [[Palma, Majorca]], designed by [[Josep Lluís Sert]]. * [[Tate & Lyle]] sugar silo, [[Liverpool]], England.<ref name=1001B /> * Casa Antonio Gálvez, [[Mexico City]], designed by [[Luis Barragán]].<ref name=1001B /> * House Fox, [[Worcester, Western Cape]], South Africa, designed by Revel Fox.<ref name=1001B /> * Houses for self at [[:File:7 Gibralter Hill, Lincoln.JPG|7 Gibraltar Hill]] and for E. W. Scorer, both in [[Lincoln, England]], designed by [[Sam Scorer]]. * House for John Womersley at [[Farnley Tyas]], Yorkshire, England, designed by [[Peter Womersley]]. * [[Achmelvich#"Hermit's Castle"|"Hermit's Castle", Achmelvich]], Scotland, designed by David Scott.<ref>{{cite book|first=Barnabas|last=Calder|title=Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|year=2016|isbn=978-0-434-02244-1}}</ref>
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