1959 in architecture

• Boardman Hall at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller and built in 1892, is demolished ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings opened in New York City, USA • May 3 – Birmingham Museum of Art (new building), Birmingham, Alabama, by Warren, Knight & Davis. • October 21 – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Buildings completed , Tokyo, Japan • Basilica of Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, designed by architect José Enrique Marrero Regalado. • Case Study House #21: Bailey House and #22: Stahl House, by architect Pierre Koenig. • Zigzag House, Sarasota, Florida, designed by architect Tollyn Twitchell. • 6 Bacon's Lane, Highgate, London, designed by architect Leonard Manasseh for himself. • Chase Tower, Detroit, Michigan, designed by Albert Kahn Associates. • Kariba Dam completed between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River. • The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia. • Ten Great Buildings project completed in Beijing, China. • Bracken House, the Financial Times headquarters in the City of London, designed by Sir Albert Richardson. • Lincoln Motors showrooms and garage, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, England, designed by Sam Scorer of Denis Clarke Hall, Scorer and Bright; engineer Dr K. Hajnal-Kónyi. • National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, designed by Le Corbusier. • Finmere Church of England Primary School, England, designed by Mary and David Medd. ==Awards==

• AIA Gold Medal – Walter Gropius. • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. ==Births==

• October 10 – Maya Lin, American designer and artist • October 10 – Michael Maltzan, American architect • Jacques Ferrier, French architect • Lorcan O'Herlihy, Irish-born architect working in the United States ==Deaths==

• February 23 – Gordon Wilson, Australian-born New Zealand government architect (born 1900) • April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (born 1867) ==References==