1965 in architecture

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

Buildings opened

Opening of Toronto's City Hall

• 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, Canada.
• October 6
  • The Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls.
  • The Post Office Tower in London, UK, officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson
• November 19 - Dedication of the Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway.
• December 28 - Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
• 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
• The Shalom Meir Tower in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Arctic Cathedral in Tromsø designed by Jan Inge Hovig

Gateway Arch

Buildings completed

• October - Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen.
• Akosombo Dam, Ghana.
• Holyoke Center at Harvard University, Boston, United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
• The Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, United States.
• The NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Florida, United States.
• Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
• The Nozema Zendstation, The Hague, Netherlands.
• Elephant House, 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

• 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)
• May 10 - Karl Burman, Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882)
• June 21 - Kay Fisker, Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893)
• 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)