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The year 1960 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• January 13 - Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory officially opened in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
• April 12 - Candlestick Park opens on the shore of San Francisco Bay, by architect John Bolles.
• May 25 - Teatro General San Mart n inaugurated in Buenos Aires the first major project by Argentine architect Mario Roberto lvarez.
• American Embassy London Chancery Building opened, designed by Eero Saarinen.
• The Chemosphere, a house designed by American architect John Lautner, completed in the Hollywood Hills, California.
• The Climatron geodesic dome opens at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, designed by Buckminster Fuller.
• Euromast is completed in Rotterdam, Netherlands from the design by Hugh Maaskant.
• Finlyandsky Rail Terminal is rebuilt in St. Petersburg, Russia.
• Hooper House II completed by architect Marcel Breuer in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Mabel McDowell Elementary School was built in Columbus, Indiana, designed by architect John Carl Warnecke.
• Mirante do Vale completed as the tallest building in Brazil. Designed by engineer Waldomiro Zarzur in Downtown S o Paulo.
• Napoli Centrale railway station and PalaLottomatica sports arena completed, by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, and others.
• Pirelli Tower, designed by architect Gio Ponti, with Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso, completed in Milan, Italy.
• Radisson Blu Royal Hotel completed by Arne Jacobsen in Copenhagen.
• Sainte Marie de La Tourette, by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis, completed for the Dominican Order near Lyon, France.
• William L. Slayton House designed by I. M. Pei, completed in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Events

• August 21 - Bras lia is inaugurated as Brazil's new capital city, with many public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer. L cio Costa was the principal urban planner and Roberto Burle Marx was the landscape designer.
• Construction of the Tour Telus in Montreal, Quebec begins.
• Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• RAIA Gold Medal - Leslie Wilkinson.
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Pier Luigi Nervi.
• Knighthood - Basil Spence.

Births

Deaths

• February 8 - Giles Gilbert Scott (born 1880)
• March 26 - W. Curtis Green (born 1875)
• May 1 - Charles Holden (born 1875)
• December 14
  • Antonio Barluzzi (born 1884)
  • Richard Konwiarz (born 1883)
• Gilbert Stanley Underwood (born 1880), American architect best known for his National Park lodges.

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