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==Buildings and structures== {{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1970}} ===Buildings opened=== [[File:Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University.jpg|thumb|Usdan Center]] [[File:Brasilia Catedral 08 2005 03.jpg|thumb|[[Cathedral of Brasília]], Brazil]] * [[March 7]] – [[John Hancock Center]] official opening ceremony, by [[Bruce Graham]]/ [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill|SOM]], in Chicago, Illinois. * [[May 31]] – [[Cathedral of Brasília]], designed by [[Oscar Niemeyer]], is dedicated. * [[July 21]] – The [[Aswan High Dam]] in [[Egypt]] (officially opened in January 1971).<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/40203/Aswan-High-Dam Encyclopædia Britannica]. Accessed 28 April 2013</ref> * August – [[Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō]], cenotaph in [[Osaka]], Japan. * [[November 1]] — Usdan Student Center, [[Brandeis University]], designed by [[Hugh Stubbins]] and Associates.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yue |first1=Chen |title=Usdan History |url=https://sites.google.com/a/brandeis.edu/tarausdan/home/archive/usdan-history |website=tarausdan |accessdate=12 October 2020}}</ref> * [[December 23]] – The North Tower of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]], by [[Minoru Yamasaki]], is topped out at 1,368 feet, making it the tallest building in the world. The building accepts its first tenants that same month.<ref>[http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/history-twin-towers.html History of the Twin Towers, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228040848/http://www.panynj.gov/wtcprogress/history-twin-towers.html |date=2013-12-28 }}.PANYNJ.gov. 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2015</ref> ===Buildings completed=== [[File:Armstrong Rubber Company HQ, aka Pirelli Building.jpg|thumb|right|Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters]] [[File:Muzej na sovremenata umetnost - Skopje (9).jpg|thumb|[[Contemporary Art Museum (North Macedonia)|Contemporary Art Museum]] in [[Skopje]], North Macedonia]] * Armstrong Rubber Company Headquarters, later known as the Pirelli Tire Building, a brutalist landmark in [[New Haven, Connecticut]] designed by [[Marcel Breuer]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dickinson |first1=Duo |title=After A Dozen Years, New Interest In Adaptive Reuse Of Iconic Pirelli Building |url=http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html |accessdate=27 October 2018 |publisher=Hartford Courant |date=22 December 2016 |quote=the building, which was finished in 1970 |archive-date=27 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027190422/http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/features/hc-nh-pirelli-building-20161224-story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cogley |first1=Bridget |title=Brutalist Breuer building owned by IKEA could become hotel in Connecticut |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/26/brutalist-marcel-breuer-pirelli-tire-building-new-haven-connecticut-hotel-ikea/ |website=de zeen |quote=Breuer completed the ... building ... in 1970|accessdate=27 October 2018}}</ref> * [[CBR Building]] in [[Brussels, Belgium]] by [[Constantin Brodzki]] and Marcel Lambrichs.<ref>[https://monument.heritage.brussels/nl/Watermaal-Bosvoorde/Terhulpsesteenweg/185/26284 CBR gebouw – Inventaris van het bouwkundig erfgoed<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[11 Stanwix Street]] (Westinghouse Tower) in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. * [[East Harlem Pre-School]] in New York City, by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson. * [[Pimlico Academy|Pimlico Secondary School]] in [[London]], England, by [[John Bancroft (architect)|John Bancroft]] of the [[Greater London Council]] architecture department (demolished [[2010 in architecture|2010]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=John Bancroft|work=Utopia London|url=http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft|year=2010|accessdate=2017-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110042132/http://www.utopialondon.com/page/john-bancroft|archive-date=2016-11-10|url-status=usurped}}</ref> * [[Euston Tower]] in London, England. * [[One Palliser Square]] in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]] * [[KEMO Toren]] telecommunications tower in [[Arnhem]], [[Netherlands]]. * [[Mount Angel Abbey]] Library in [[St. Benedict]], near Mount Angel, Oregon, by [[Alvar Aalto]]. * [[Geisel Library|Central Library]], [[University of California, San Diego]], by [[William Pereira]]. * [[Contemporary Art Museum (North Macedonia)|Contemporary Art Museum]] in [[Skopje]], by the "Warsaw [[:pl:Tygrysy (architekci)|Tigers]]" ([[:pl:Wacław Kłyszewski|Wacław Kłyszewski]], [[:pl:Jerzy Mokrzyński|Jerzy Mokrzyński]] and [[:pl:Eugeniusz Wierzbicki|Eugeniusz Wierzbicki]]). * [[Kettle's Yard]] art gallery extension in [[Cambridge]], England, by [[Leslie Martin]]. * [[Oklahoma Theater Center]] in [[Oklahoma City]], by [[John M. Johansen]]. * [[Phillips Exeter Academy#Athletic facilities|Phillips Exeter Athletics]] at [[Exeter, New Hampshire]], by [[Kallmann McKinnell & Wood]]. * [[Trust Bank Building]] in [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]]. * The [[Royal Commonwealth Pool]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, by [[RMJM]]. * The [[Apollo Pavilion]] in [[Peterlee]], England, by [[Victor Pasmore]]. * [[World Trade Center (Tokyo)]], Japan's tallest building at this time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2870|title=Tokyo World Trade Center Building|accessdate=2009-10-16|publisher=Skyscraperpage.com}}</ref> * [[Yerevan Chess House]], Armenia. * Queensgate Market, [[Huddersfield]], England, by J. Seymour Harris Partnership (Gwyn Roberts, project architect).<ref>{{cite web|first=Christopher|last=Marsden|date=February 2009|title=Queensgate Market, Huddersfield|work=Building of the month|url=http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/queensgate-market-huddersfield/|publisher=[[The Twentieth Century Society]]|accessdate=2015-02-06}}</ref> * Równica Sanatorium, Ustroń-Zawodzie, Poland. * [[Capel Manor House]], [[Horsmonden]], Kent, England, by [[Michael Manser]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Living in a glass house|first=Caroline|last=Ednie|url=http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1|work=Qatar Tribune|date=2013-02-02|accessdate=2018-01-19|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130201163506/http://www.qatar-tribune.com/data/20120511/content.asp?section=Chillout3_1|archivedate=2013-02-01}}</ref> * The Cornell Campus Store, an underground shopping arcade at [[Cornell University]], by [[Earl Flansburgh]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cornell Store Facility Information |url=https://www.fs.cornell.edu/facinfo/fs_facilInfo.cfm?facil_cd=2088 |publisher=Cornell University |accessdate=26 August 2018}}</ref> ===Buildings started=== * [[House of Soviets (Kaliningrad)]], designed by Yulian L. Shvartsbreim; never completed as a functional building.
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