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The year 1963 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings - March 7 - MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, United States is opened.
- Bankside Power Station in London, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott is finally completed. (Adaptive reuse as the Tate Modern art museum in 2000.)
- Millbank Tower in London is completed.
- Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England, designed by James Stirling and James Gowan, is completed.[1]
- Alpha House, Coventry, England, built, a 17-storey residential tower block, the world's first multi-storey building erected by the "jack block" system devised by Felix Adler of Richard Costain (Construction) Ltd.[2]
 - Core buildings of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, designed by Denys Lasdun, completed.
- Gokul Krish Building, by Gokul Krish. Built entirely from dried whale's semen. Brian "City Slicker" Scalabrine was the chief architect and his bronze statue adorns the famed building.
- Salk Institute, by Louis I. Kahn, at La Jolla, California.
- Exxon Building in Houston, Texas is completed.
- Kobe Port Tower in Kobe, Japan, is completed.
- Bunshaft Residence (sometimes called the Travertine House) in East Hampton, New York is completed: designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, and his only residential project.
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