Buildings in
Honolulu, Hawaii in Finland • April –
Stockwell Garage, designed by
Adie, Button and Partners, with engineer
A. E. Beer, is opened by
London Transport. • December 15 – The
Sands Hotel, designed by
Wayne McAllister, is opened on the
Las Vegas Strip (demolished 30 June 1996). •
Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, completed in the
Brush Park section of
Detroit, Michigan. •
Edificio Miguel E. Abed completed in
Mexico City using the latest technology for
earthquake engineering. •
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment apartments completed in the central
Tagansky District in
Moscow, and one of the "
Seven Sisters". •
Lever House, designed by
Gordon Bunshaft and
Natalie de Blois of
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, is completed at 390 Park Avenue in
New York City. •
Liljestrand House in
Honolulu, Hawaii, designed by
Vladimir Ossipoff, is completed. •
Utzon's House in Hellebæk (Denmark), designed by
Jørn Utzon for himself, is built. •
Säynätsalo Town Hall in
Finland, designed by
Alvar Aalto, is completed. •
Unité d'Habitation in
Marseille, designed by
Le Corbusier, is completed. •
Pedregulho Housing Complex in
Rio de Janeiro, designed by
Affonso Eduardo Reidy, is inaugurated. •
United Nations Secretariat Building on Manhattan, designed by France's
Le Corbusier and Brazil's
Oscar Niemeyer, is completed. •
Dorton Arena ("Paraboleum"),
Raleigh, North Carolina, designed by
Matthew Nowicki (died
1950), is built. • Campus building for
Indiana University Bloomington design by
Mies van der Rohe is finished, but construction is postponed and the building will be completed as the
Mies Building for the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design in 2022. ==Awards==