Editing 1965 in architecture

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The year '''1965 in architecture''' involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

==Events==
* [[Reconstruction of Skopje 1963|Reconstruction of Skopje]] in Yugoslavia planned by [[Kenzō Tange]] and team.<ref>{{cite book|title=Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement|author=Zhongije Lin|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon|page=168}}</ref>

==Buildings and structures==
{{See also|Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1965}}
===Buildings opened===
[[File:Toronto's New City Hall 1965.jpg|thumb|[[Toronto City Hall]] opening]]
[[File:St Louis night expblend.jpg|thumb|[[Gateway Arch]], [[St. Louis]], USA]]
[[File:Arctic Cathedral in Tromsoe.jpg|thumb|[[Arctic Cathedral]], [[Tromsø]], Norway]]
* [[August 15]] – [[Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway]], Ireland, designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Galway Cathedral|url=http://www.galwaycathedral.ie/about|publisher=Galway Cathedral|accessdate=2012-07-17}}</ref>
* September – [[Toronto City Hall]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada.
* [[October 6]]
** [[Skylon Tower]] in [[Niagara Falls]], designed by [[B+H Architects]].
** [[BT Tower|Post Office Tower]] in [[London]], UK, designed by [[Eric Bedford]] and G. R. Yeats and topped out in 1964, is officially opened by Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]].
* [[October 28]] – [[Gateway Arch]] (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], designed by [[Eero Saarinen]].
* [[November 19]] – [[Arctic Cathedral]], [[Tromsø]], Norway, designed by [[Jan Inge Hovig]], is dedicated.<ref>{{cite web|work=Ishavskatetralen|title=The Cathedral|url=http://www.ishavskatedralen.no/about-the-cathedral.135529.en.html|publisher=Tromsdalen Kirke|accessdate=2012-12-11|year=2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207003146/http://www.ishavskatedralen.no/about-the-cathedral.135529.en.html|archivedate=2012-12-07}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] – [[Museo de Arte de Ponce]], [[Puerto Rico]], designed by [[Edward Durell Stone]].
* [[Shalom Meir Tower]] in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel, designed by Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv and Meir Levy.
* The first phase of the [[University of California, Irvine]] campus, designed by [[William Pereira]].
* The first phase of the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] campus, designed by [[John Carl Warnecke]].

===Buildings completed===
* [[Akosombo Dam]], [[Ghana]].
* [[Smith Campus Center|Holyoke Center]] at [[Harvard University]], [[Boston]], United States, designed by [[Josep Lluís Sert]].
* [[Richard J. Daley Center]] in [[Chicago]], United States, designed by Jacques Brownson of C. F. Murphy Associates.
* [[NASA]] [[Vertical Assembly Building]] at [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39]], [[Florida]], United States.
* [[:File:Alvar Aalto-centrum i Östermyra, sommaren 2003..jpg|Seinajoki Town Hall]] in [[Finland]], designed by [[Alvar Aalto]].
* [[:File:St Michael and All Angels church, Woodchurch.jpg|St Michael and All Angels Church]], [[Woodchurch, Merseyside|Woodchurch]], Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners.
* [[Nozema Zendstation, The Hague]], [[Netherlands]].
* [[:File:EH1323694 Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo 01.jpg|Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion]], [[London Zoo]], designed by [[Hugh Casson]] and Neville Conder.

==Awards==
* [[Architecture Firm Award]] – [[Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons]]
* [[Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal|RAIA Gold Medal]] – Osborn McCutcheon
* [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] [[Royal Gold Medal]] – [[Kenzo Tange]]

==Births==
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Patricio Pouchulu]], Argentine architect
* [[Diébédo Francis Kéré]], [[Burkina Faso|Burkinabè]] architect
* [[Monica Ponce de Leon]], Venezuelan-born architect and educator
* [[Kerstin Thompson]], Australian architect

==Deaths==
[[File:Le Corbusier (1964).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Le Corbusier]]]]
* [[January 11]] – [[Florestano Di Fausto]], Italian architect working around the Mediterranean (born [[1890 in architecture|1890]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Ingrid Wallberg]], Swedish architect (born 1890)
* [[May 10]] – [[Karl Burman]], Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born [[1882 in architecture|1882]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Kay Fisker]], Danish architect, designer and educator (born [[1893 in architecture|1893]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Donald McMorran]], English neo-Georgian architect (born [[1904 in architecture|1904]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Le Corbusier]] (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer (born [[1887 in architecture|1887]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Louis Laybourne Smith]], Australian architect and educator (born [[1880 in architecture|1880]])<ref>Page, Michael (1986). ''Sculptors in Space: South Australian Architects 1836–1986''. Adelaide, Australia: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (South Australian Chapter). {{ISBN|0-9588233-0-8}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] – [[William Strudwick Arrasmith]], American architect, designer of [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] bus stations (born [[1898 in architecture|1898]])

==References==
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