1976 in architecture

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The year 1976 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings completed and opened

File:CN Tower from Lake 2002.jpg

CN Tower.

• October - Wotruba Church (Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit) in Vienna, to a design by Fritz Wotruba, completed.
• October 1 - CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, designed by WZMH Architects and John Andrews, opened.
• October 25 - Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank, designed by Denys Lasdun, opened.
• November 26 - The OCBC Centre in Singapore, designed by I. M. Pei & Partners, completed.
• John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Henry N. Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners.
• Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates, is completed.
• Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate (now 102 Petty France), Westminster, London, designed by Basil Spence.
• Water Tower Place in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Edward D. Dart of Loebl Schlossman Bennett and Dart.
• Fernmeldeturm Koblenz near Koblenz in Germany.
• Ponte City Apartments in Johannesburg, South Africa, designed by Mannie Feldman.
• ABSA Tower in Johannesburg.
• First planned residential development at South Woodham Ferrers in England.

Awards

• Architecture Firm Award - Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
• Grand prix national de l'architecture - Roger Taillibert
• Rome Prize for architecture - Gunnar Birkerts
• RAIA Gold Medal - Harry Seidler
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal - John Summerson
• Twenty-five Year Award - 860-880 North Lakeshore Drive Apartments

Births

• 1976 - Ott Kadarik, Estonian architect
• date unknown - Antonio Pio Saracino, Italian-born US architect

Deaths

• January 26 - Eric Francis, British architect and painter (born 1887)
• May 11 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer, sculptor and painter. (born 1898)
• November 19 - Sir Basil Spence, Scottish Modernist/Brutalist architect (born 1907)