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Overview of the events of 1957 in architecture
The year 1957 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings and structures [ edit ]
Buildings opened [ edit ]
The Congress Hall in Berlin , Germany
July 22 – Fazle Omar Mosque , Hamburg, Germany.
September 19 – The Congress Hall Berlin, Germany is opened.
October 15
Otaniemi Chapel , Aalto University , Espoo , Finland, designed by Heikki and Kaija Siren .
Church of St. Bonifatius, Kassel , Germany, designed by Architekturbüro Josef Bieling , consecrated.
St Luke's Church, Pinner , England, designed by F. X. Velarde .
First stage of Golden Lane Estate in Finsbury, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon , officially opened. Great Arthur House is (briefly) the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of construction.
Buildings completed [ edit ]
Zeilenbau housing at Interbau , by Walter Gropius
Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan , Armenia
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters building designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Bloomfield, Connecticut , USA.[1]
Friedrich-Engelhorn-Hochhaus in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , at this time the tallest building in Germany.
The Interbau project in Hansaviertel , West Berlin , with buildings designed by forty-eight architects.
Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia , designed by Mark Grigorian in 1945.
Munkegaard School near Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen .
Spaarbank, Rotterdam , designed by J. J. P. Oud in 1942.
St James's House, Birmingham , England, by John Madin .
Richards Medical Research Laboratories by architect Louis Kahn , on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania , USA.
Unité d'Habitation at Marseille, by Le Corbusier .
Josep Lluís Sert 's house for himself at 64 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts , USA.
Dr. Robert Hohf House near Kenilworth, Illinois , USA, designed by Keck & Keck .
High Sunderland (house for Bernat Klein ), Scottish Borders , designed by Peter Womersley .[2]
The Pediment, Aynho , Northamptonshire, England, designed by Raymond Erith .[3]
Church of Our Lady and St Columba , Wallsend , England, designed by Vincente G. Stienlet of Pascal J. Stienlet & Sons.
Norms Restaurant , La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA by Armét & Davis .
May 18 – Ai Weiwei , Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism[4] [5]
August 5 – Shigeru Ban , Japanese architect known for use of paper and cardboard
August 8 – Gion A. Caminada , Swiss architect
September 18 – Tom Wright , English architect known for Burj Al Arab
Joze Plecnik
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