1956 In Architecture
The year 1956 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * February – Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. * February 4 – Theater Münster in Germany, designed by Werner Ruhnau, Harald Deilmann, Max von Hausen and Ortwin Rave. * April 17 – Council House, Bristol, England, UK, designed by Vincent Harris (begun 1938). * April 30 – Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, designed by Augusto H. Alvarez. * July 31 – Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, USSR. Buildings completed * Capitol Records Building in Hollywood, California, the world's first round office building, designed by architect Welton Becket. * S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States, designed by the current head of IIT's architecture department Mies van der Rohe. * General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, United States, designed by Eero Saarinen. * ...
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