1965 in architecture
# 1965 in architecture

The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

* Reconstruction of Skopje in Yugoslavia planned by Kenzō Tange and team.

## Buildings and structures

### Buildings opened

* August 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Ireland, designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.
* September – Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
* October 6
   * Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, designed by B+H Architects.
   * Post Office Tower in London, UK, designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats and topped out in 1964, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
* October 28 – Gateway Arch (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen.
* November 19 – Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway, designed by Jan Inge Hovig, is dedicated.
* December 28 – Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, designed by Edward Durell Stone.
* Shalom Meir Tower in Tel-Aviv, Israel, designed by Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv and Meir Levy.
* The first phase of the University of California, Irvine campus, designed by William Pereira.
* The first phase of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, designed by John Carl Warnecke.

### Buildings completed

* Akosombo Dam, Ghana.
* Holyoke Center at Harvard University, Boston, United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
* Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, United States, designed by Jacques Brownson of C. F. Murphy Associates.
* NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Florida, United States.
* Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
* St Michael and All Angels Church, Woodchurch, Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners.
* Nozema Zendstation, The Hague, Netherlands.
* Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo, designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder.

## Awards

* Architecture Firm Award – Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons
* RAIA Gold Medal – Osborn McCutcheon
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Kenzo Tange

## Births

* April 13 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect
* Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkinabè architect
* Monica Ponce de Leon, Venezuelan-born architect and educator
* Kerstin Thompson, Australian architect

## Deaths

* January 11 – Florestano Di Fausto, Italian architect working around the Mediterranean (born 1890)
* January 23 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (born 1890)
* May 10 – Karl Burman, Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882)
* June 21 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893)
* August 6 – Donald McMorran, English neo-Georgian architect (born 1904)
* August 27 – Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer (born 1887)
* September 13 – Louis Laybourne Smith, Australian architect and educator (born 1880)
* November 30 – William Strudwick Arrasmith, American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (born 1898)
