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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1964}} ===Buildings opened=== [[File:Yoyogi National Gymnasium 1 Ⅱ.jpg|thumb|[[Yoyogi National Gymnasium]] in [[Tokyo]], Japan]] *April – [[Donauturm]] (Danube Tower) in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]], designed by [[Hannes Lintl]], opened. *[[May 30]] – [[Zu den heiligen Engeln]] church in [[Hanover]], Germany, designed by [[Bieling Architekten]], consecrated. *[[July 23]] – [[Church of the Good Shepherd, Nottingham]], England (Roman Catholic), designed by [[Gerard Goalen]], opened. *October – [[Yoyogi National Gymnasium]] in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], designed by [[Kenzō Tange]] for the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], opened. *[[October 16]] – [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]], England, designed by [[Arne Jacobsen]], opened. *[[October 17]] – [[Lake Burley Griffin]] in [[Canberra]], Australia, designed by [[Walter Burley Griffin]] (died [[1937 in architecture|1937]]), opened. *[[November 21]] **[[Verrazano Narrows Bridge]] across [[New York Harbor]], [[List of longest suspension bridge spans|the longest suspension bridge in the world]] by the length of central span (1964-1981), designed by [[Othmar Ammann]], opened. **[[:File:GalaFairydeanground.jpg|Gala Fairydean F.C. stand]], [[Netherdale]] stadium, [[Galashiels]], Scotland, designed by [[Peter Womersley]], opened.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gfrfc.co.uk/the-stand|title=Our Famous Grade A-Listed Stand|publisher=[[Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C.]]|location=Galashiels|first=Graeme|last=McIver|accessdate=2017-01-24}}</ref> *[[December 28]] – [[Kyoto Tower]] in [[Kyoto]], Japan, designed by Makoto Tanahashi, opened. ===Buildings completed=== *[[July 15]] – The [[BT Tower|Post Office Tower]] in [[London]] (now known as the BT Tower), designed by [[Eric Bedford]] and [[G. R. Yeats]], is topped out. [[File:Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo, England-16Aug2009.jpg|right|thumb|[[London Zoo#Snowdon Aviary|Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo]]]] [[File:2018 St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo 2.jpg|thumb|[[St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo]], Japan]] [[File:02 Fondation Maeght.JPG|thumb|The [[Fondation Maeght]] in [[Saint-Paul-de-Vence]], France]] * [[December 28]] – [[Kyoto Tower]] in [[Kyoto]], Japan opens. *''date unknown'' **[[Tour de la Bourse]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], is completed and becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1964–1967). **[[CBS Building]] in [[New York City]], the only skyscraper designed by [[Eero Saarinen]] (d. 1961). **[[Prudential Tower]] in [[Boston]], [[United States]], designed by [[Charles Luckman]] and Associates. **The [[Erieview Tower]] in [[Downtown Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], United States, is completed as part of the [[Erieview]] [[urban renewal]] plan. **The [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] new building, designed by [[William Pereira]]. **[[Founders Tower (Oklahoma City)]]. **Casino Tower in [[Niagara Falls]]. **[[Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters]] in [[Philadelphia]], United States, designed by [[Pietro Belluschi]] and George M. Ewing Co. **[[Fernmeldeturm Berlin]] in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]], is completed after 3 years. **The [[Fernmeldeturm Ulm-Ermingen]] in [[Ulm-Ermingen]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], Germany. **[[Pääskyvuoren linkkitorni]] in [[Turku]], [[Finland]]. **The [[Ušće Tower]] in [[Belgrade]], [[Serbia]] (badly damaged in 1999 by [[NATO bombing of Yugoslavia|NATO airstrikes]], but reconstructed in 2004). **The [[Royal College of Physicians]] in London, designed by [[Denys Lasdun]]. **[[Swiss Cottage Central Library]] for the [[London Borough of Camden]], designed by Sir [[Basil Spence]]. **The [[Economist Group]] headquarters in the [[City of London]], designed by [[Peter and Alison Smithson]].<ref name=England>{{cite book|first=Elain|last=Harwood|title=England: a Guide to Post-War Listed Buildings|edition=rev.|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2003|isbn=0-7134-8818-2}}</ref> **The [[London Zoo#The Snowdon Aviary|Snowdon Aviary, London Zoo]], designed by [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon|Lord Snowdon]], [[Cedric Price]] and [[Frank Newby]], is completed.<ref name=England /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture,103,AR.html |title=ZSL Architecture |publisher=[[Zoological Society of London|ZSL]] |accessdate=2008-03-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228070202/http://www.zsl.org/info/about-us/zoo-architecture%2C103%2CAR.html |archivedate=28 February 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> **[[St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo]], Japan (Roman Catholic), designed by [[Kenzō Tange]], is completed. **[[:File:St Mary's Church, Leyland.jpg|St Mary's Church]], [[Leyland, Lancashire]], England (Roman Catholic), designed by [[J. Faczynski]] of Weightman and Bullen. **Synagogue for [[Belfast Hebrew Congregation]] ([[Northern Ireland]]) designed by [[Eugene Rosenberg (architect)|Eugene Rosenberg]] of [[Yorke Rosenberg Mardall]]. **Extension to the [[Ulster Museum]], [[Belfast]], designed in [[Brutalist architecture|Brutalist]] style by Francis Pym, completed. **The [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Museum of American History|Museum of History and Technology]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], designed by [[McKim, Mead & White]], opens to the public (January 23).<ref>{{cite web|title=Mission & History|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/museum/mission-history|publisher=National Museum of American History|accessdate=2018-02-14}}</ref> **[[Fondation Maeght]] museum of modern art at [[Saint-Paul-de-Vence]] in the [[Alpes-Maritimes]] of [[France]], designed by Spanish [[Catalan people|Catalan]] architect [[Josep Lluís Sert]], is opened (July 28).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Maeght Foundation, a unique site dedicated to art|url=http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation|publisher=Fondation Maeght|year=2010|accessdate=2012-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022050232/http://www.fondation-maeght.com/index.php/en/the-foundation|archive-date=2012-10-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> **New House, [[Shipton-under-Wychwood]], England, designed by Roy Stout and Patrick Litchfield.<ref>{{cite book|page=463|first=Alan|last=Brooks|title=Oxfordshire: North and West|location=New Haven; London|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-300-20930-3|series=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides]]}}</ref>
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