Editing 1958 in architecture

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The year '''1958 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* [[February 21]] – The [[Irish Georgian Society]], the group for the promotion of [[Georgian architecture]] in [[Ireland]], is established by [[Desmond Guinness]].
* [[February 28]] – The [[Victorian Society]], the pressure group for the promotion and protection of [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian Baroque architecture]] and related arts in the [[United Kingdom]], holds its first meeting at [[Linley Sambourne House]] in London.
* [[Alvar Aalto]] is commissioned to design the [[North Jutland Art Museum]] in [[Aalborg]], [[Denmark]] (completed [[1972 in architecture|1972]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kulturarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/en_GB/kunsten-museum-of-modern-art-aalborg/stories|last=Pedersen|first=Simon Ostenfeld|title=KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg|work=1001 stories of Denmark|publisher=Danish Agency for Culture|accessdate=2013-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922081546/http://www.kulturarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/en_GB/kunsten-museum-of-modern-art-aalborg/stories|archive-date=2013-09-22|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[:File:Kalisz Sanktuarium Miłosierdzia Bożego.JPG|Sanctuary of Divine Mercy]] (Sanktuarium Miłosierdzia Bożego), [[Kalisz]], Poland is designed; it will not be built until 1977–93.
* Competition for the design of [[Churchill College, Cambridge]], England, is won by [[Richard Sheppard (architect)|Richard Sheppard]]'s practice, [[Sheppard Robson]]; the competition also launches the practice of [[Bill Howell (architect)|Howell]], Killick, Partridge and Amis.

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1958}}

===Buildings opened===
[[File:09 10 2016 - Jantar com a base aliada no Palácio da Alvorada (35487619353).jpg|thumb|[[Palácio da Alvorada]] in [[Brasília]], Brazil]]
* [[March 27]] – [[Congress House]], London, designed by [[David Aberdeen]], officially opened.
* [[April 17]] – Opening of the [[Expo '58]] World's Fair in [[Brussels]]; its most notable features are the [[Atomium]], designed by [[André Waterkeyn]], and the [[Philips Pavilion]], designed by [[Iannis Xenakis]].
* [[June 30]] – [[Palácio da Alvorada]] ({{langx|en|Palace of Dawn}}), [[Brasília]], designed by [[Oscar Niemeyer]].
* [[September 12]] – [[Center of New Industries and Technologies]], at [[La Défense]] in Paris, designed by [[Bernard Zehrfuss]] with [[Robert Camelot]], [[Jean de Mailly (architect)|Jean de Mailly]] and engineer [[Jean Prouvé]]; opened by General [[Charles de Gaulle]].
* [[November 7]] – [[:File:Chapel of Allen Hall seminary - geograph.org.uk - 835821.jpg|Chapel]], Convent of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, [[Chelsea, London]], designed by [[Hector Corfiato]], consecrated.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1430539|desc=Roman Catholic Diocesan Seminary Chapel, Allen Hall|accessdate=2021-06-16}}</ref>

===Buildings completed===
[[File:Tokyo Tower and around Skyscrapers b.jpg|thumb|[[Tokyo Tower]], [[Tokyo]], Japan]]
* [[October 14]] – [[Tokyo Tower]], [[Shiba Park]], Tokyo, Japan, by [[Tachū Naitō]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?fl20020317a1.htm|title=The tower and the story|date=March 17, 2002|author=Gilhooly, Rob|work=[[The Japan Times]]|accessdate=2008-09-20}} {{dead link|date=April 2012|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
* [[October 15]] – [[Dirksen Senate Office Building]], [[Washington, D.C.]], designed by [[Eggers & Higgins]] from New York.
* [[Kulttuuritalo]] (House of Culture), [[Helsinki]], designed by [[Alvar Aalto]].
* [[The Old Vic]] Theatre Annex, Southwark, London, designed by Lyons, Israel and [[Tom Ellis (architect)|Ellis]].<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100512174706/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2587.aspx DCMS Media Release. 2006.] The building later becomes The Royal National Theatre Studio.</ref>
* [[UNESCO]] headquarters in Paris, designed by [[Bernard Zehrfuss]] with [[Marcel Breuer]] and [[Pier Luigi Nervi]].
* Provost's House, [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], England, designed by [[Raymond Erith]].
* [[Riverview High School (Sarasota, Florida)]], designed by [[Paul Rudolph (architect)|Paul Rudolph]].
* [[St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre]], France, designed by [[Auguste Perret]] (died [[1954 in architecture|1954]]).
* [[Wiener Stadthalle]] [[indoor arena]], [[Vienna]], designed by [[Roland Rainer]].
* [[Seagram Building]] in [[New York City]], designed by [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]].
* [[Torre Velasca]] in [[Milan]], designed by [[BBPR]].
* [[Torres de Satélite]] monument in [[Ciudad Satélite]], Mexico, designed by [[Luis Barragán]], [[Mathias Goeritz]] and [[Jesús Reyes Ferreira]].
* [[High Sunderland]] (house for [[Bernat Klein]]), near [[Selkirk, Scottish Borders]], designed by [[Peter Womersley]].<ref>{{cite book|author=The Twentieth Century Society|author-link=The Twentieth Century Society|title=100 Houses 100 Years|location=London|publisher=Batsford|year=2017|isbn=978-1-84994-437-3|page=89}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Architecture|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal]] – [[Henry R. Shepley]].
* [[AIA Gold Medal]] – [[John Wellborn Root]].
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Robert Schofield Morris]].

==Births==
* [[June 12]] – [[Nille Juul-Sørensen]], Danish architect, director of the Danish Design Centre in Copenhagen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ddc.dk/press-release/nille-juul-sorensen-ny-direktor-dansk-design-center |title=Nille Juul-Sørensen ny direktør for Dansk Design Center |publisher=Dansk Design Center |accessdate=2012-03-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110042047/http://www.ddc.dk/press-release/nille-juul-sorensen-ny-direktor-dansk-design-center |archivedate=2011-11-10 }}</ref>

==Deaths==
* [[January 8]] – [[Mary Colter]], [[Americans|American]] architect and designer (born [[1869 in architecture|1869]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Hugo Häring]], German architect and writer (born [[1882 in architecture|1882]])<ref>M. Aschenbrenner, P. Blundell-Jones, ''Hugo Häring – the Organic versus the Geometric'', Edition Axel Menges, 1999</ref>
* [[June 17]] – [[Wells Coates]], Canadian architect, designer and writer (born [[1895 in architecture|1895]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Gyula Rimanóczy]], Hungarian architect (born [[1903 in architecture|1903]])
* [[October 25]] – [[James Chapman-Taylor]], New Zealand domestic architect (born [[1878 in architecture|1878]])

==References==
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