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1974 In Architecture
The year 1974 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Heikkinen – Komonen Architects established by Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen in Helsinki, Finland. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. * Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham, UK, designed by John Madin (closed 2013). * Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court in Westminster, London, designed by C. A. Legerton Buildings completed *May 18 – The Warsaw radio mast in Poland, the second tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991). *''date unknown'' * Renaissance Tower in Dallas, Texas, USA. * AT&T Long Lines Building, 33 Thomas Street, New York, USA, designed by John Carl Warnecke. * Kamzik TV Tower in Bratislava, Slovakia. * Guy's Tower in London, United Kingdom, the world's tallest hospital at this time. * Hudson Bay Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heikkinen – Komonen Architects
Heikkinen – Komonen Architects is a Finnish architectural firm established by Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen in Helsinki in 1974. Their work is characterised as a fusion between minimalism, high-technology and Abstract expressionism, typified by their design for the Vuotalo Cultural Centre in Helsinki, or the Heureka Science Centre, in Vantaa with the juxtaposition of stark concrete elements against colourful high-tech metal structures and large glazed surfaces.Roger Connah, "The end of Finnish architecture, or Ciao Potemkin", Rakennustieto, Helsinki, 1994 They have also completed a number of small-scale humanitarian projects for Guinea, west Africa, based on local building traditions. Main works * Heureka Science Centre, Vantaa, Finland (1989) * Rovaniemi Airport, Rovaniemi, Finland (1992) (Extension, 2000) * European Film College, Ebeltoft, Denmark (1993) * Embassy of Finland, Washington, D.C., United States (1994) * Elementary School, Boundou Koura, Guinea (1997) * Elem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 18
Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I. * 1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany. * 1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England. * 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. *1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land. * 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia. * 1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Bay Centre
2 Bloor East is an office and retail complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formerly known as the Hudson's Bay Centre. It is located in Downtown Toronto at the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street at the east end of the Mink Mile. Brookfield Properties owns and operates the centre. The centre is composed of a 35-storey office tower and a retail concourse. From its opening in 1974 until 2022 it had a Hudson's Bay (department store), Hudson's Bay department store as its anchor store. Description The tower stands at 135 metres in height. It contains 35 floors and , and its address 2 Bloor Street East, at the northeast corner of the intersection of Yonge and Bloor Streets. The extensive retail concourse was anchored by a flagship store of Hudson's Bay/The Bay (known as the "Toronto, on Bloor Street" store at 44 Bloor Street East, the main brand of HBC. The mall contains over 45 specialty shops, boutiques, services and eateries. The complex also includes the Marriott Hotel, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy's Tower
Guy's Hospital is an NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in central London. It is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and one of the institutions that comprise the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. It is a large teaching hospital and is, with St Thomas' Hospital and King's College Hospital, the location of King's College London GKT School of Medical Education. The hospital's Tower Wing (originally known as Guy's Tower) was, when built in 1974, the tallest hospital building in the world, standing at with 34 floors. The tower was overtaken as the world's tallest healthcare-related building by The Belaire in New York City in 1988. As of June 2019, the Tower Wing, which remains one of the tallest buildings in London, is the world's fifth-tallest hospital building. History The hospital dates from 1721, when it was founded by philanthropist Thomas Guy, who had made a fortune as a printer of Bibles and greatly increased it by speculating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about , with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice. The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Slovakia in the fifth and sixth centuries. In the seventh century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. In the ninth century, they established the Principality of Nitra, which was later conquered by the Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. In the 10th century, after the dissolution of Great Moravia, the territory was integrated into the Principality of Hungary, which then became the Kingdom of Hungary in 1000. In 1241 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
