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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1966}} ===Buildings opened=== [[File:Abbey Theatre exterior.jpg|thumb|New [[Abbey Theatre]], [[Dublin]], Ireland]] [[File:Tricorn17.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Tricorn Centre]], [[Portsmouth]]]] * [[February 14]] β [[CN Tower (Edmonton)]], the first skyscraper in the city of [[Edmonton]], and tallest building in [[Western Canada]] until 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://capitalmodernedmonton.com/buildings-by-area/downtown/cntower/|title=CN Tower β 1966 |publisher=Capital Modern Edmonton |year=2011 |accessdate=May 31, 2012}}</ref> * March ** [[Dunelm House]], [[Durham, England]], designed by Richard Raines of [[Architects' Co-Partnership]]. ** Hotel des Dromonts, [[Avoriaz]], France, designed by [[:fr:Jacques Labro|Jacques Labro]]. * June β [[Foothills Medical Centre]], [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada, opens as the largest new hospital in North America. * [[July 3]] β Church of [[MariΓ€ Heimsuchung, Wiesbaden]], designed by Johannes Lackel. * [[July 18]] β New [[Abbey Theatre]], [[Dublin]], designed by former actor [[Michael Scott (architect)|Michael Scott]]. * c. August 31 β [[Tricorn Centre]] in [[Portsmouth]], England, designed by [[Owen Luder]] and [[Rodney Gordon]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Tricorn: The Life and Death of a Sixties Icon|last=Clark|first=Celia|author2=Cook, Robert|year=2009|publisher=Tricorn Books Ltd|isbn=978-0-9562498-0-7|page=72}}</ref> * [[September 8]] β [[Severn Bridge]] in Britain. ===Buildings completed=== * [[October 28]] β The [[Gateway Arch]] in [[St Louis, Missouri]], United States, designed by [[Eero Saarinen]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Triumph of the Arch: 1965β1986|last=Corrigan|first=Patricia|date=1985-10-27|work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|page=12F}}</ref> * December β [[BT Tower (Birmingham)|GPO Tower (Birmingham)]], England. * [[New Hall, Cambridge]], England, designed by [[Chamberlin, Powell and Bon]] (modern-day Murray Edwards College).<ref>{{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> * Church of St Peter, [[Klippan Municipality|Klippan]], Sweden, by [[Sigurd Lewerentz]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Modern Architecture through case studies|authorlink=Peter Blundell Jones|first=Peter|last=Blundell Jones|publisher=Architectural Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|authorlink=Colin St John Wilson|first=Colin St John|last=Wilson|title=Sigurd Lewerentz and the Dilemma of the Classical|journal=[[Perspecta (journal)|Perspecta]]|volume=24|year=1988|pages=51β77}}</ref> * [[Kaleva Church]] in [[Tampere]], Finland, designed by [[Reima and Raili PietilΓ€]]. * [[Fire Station Number 4 (Columbus, Indiana)|Fire Station Number 4]] in [[Columbus, Indiana]], by [[Robert Venturi]]. * [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] on [[Madison Avenue]] in [[New York City]], by [[Marcel Breuer]] with Hamilton P. Smith.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gray|first=Christopher|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/realestate/14Scapes.html?_r=1&hp|title=The Controversial Whitney Museum|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2010-11-14}}</ref> * [[Creek Vean]] (private residence), [[Feock, Cornwall]], England, designed by [[Team 4]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/newhomes/3314698/Making-the-grade-Creak-Vean.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090317090844/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/newhomes/3314698/Making-the-grade-Creak-Vean.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-03-17|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|title=Making the grade: Creek Vean|accessdate=2009-10-04|location=London|first=Keith|last=Miller|date=2003-06-28}}</ref> * [[Lovejoy Plaza]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], by [[Lawrence Halprin]], is designed.
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