Buildings opened in
Montreal, Canada •
February 7 –
Mortonhall Crematorium,
Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by
Spence, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated. •
March 1 –
Queen Elizabeth Hall concert venue on the
South Bank in London, England, designed by
Hubert Bennett, head of the architects department of the
Greater London Council, with Jack Whittle, F. G West and Geoffrey Horsefall, structural engineering by
Ove Arup & Partners and construction by
Higgs and Hill. • April –
Habitat 67 in
Montreal,
Quebec, Canada designed by
Moshe Safdie as part of
Expo 67. •
May 14 –
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, England, designed by
Frederick Gibberd, is consecrated. •
August 20 –
San Diego Stadium,
San Diego, California, designed by Frank Hope and Associates. •
September 3 –
Essingebron, Stockholm, Sweden. •
September 4 –
Ponte Morandi,
Genoa, Italy, designed by
Riccardo Morandi. •
December 8 –
Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice,
Midtown Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect
Kevin Roche and engineering partner
John Dinkeloo of
Roche-Dinkeloo. • The
Fashion Island shopping mall in
Newport Beach,
California, designed by
William Pereira and
Welton Becket.
Buildings completed in
Montreal, Canada in
Ypres, Belgium • December –
Tour du Midi,
Brussels,
Belgium. •
Avord Tower,
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada •
El Menzah Sports Palace, Tunis, Tunisia. •
Ostankino Tower,
Moscow,
Russia; it will remain the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the completion of the CN Tower. •
Saint Joseph's Oratory in
Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. •
Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Tile Cross,
Birmingham, England, designed by
Richard Gilbert Scott. •
Blessed Sacrament Church,
Gorseinon, Wales, designed by Robert Robinson. •
Church of St Mary the Immaculate Conception,
Failsworth, England, designed by Tadeusz Lesisz of Greenhalgh & Williams. • The
Kaknästornet TV Tower in
Stockholm,
Sweden. •
Berkeley Library,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, designed by
Ahrends, Burton and Koralek. •
Australia Square in
Sydney,
Australia. • The
Marine Midland Bank Building in
Manhattan,
New York,
United States. • The
South Coast Plaza shopping mall in
Costa Mesa, California, designed by
Victor Gruen, is opened. •
Reliance Controls factory,
Swindon, the last design by
Team 4 (
Su and
Richard Rogers and
Wendy and
Norman Foster), considered the first example of
High-tech architecture in the
United Kingdom, is opened (demolished 1991). • First stage of
Cumbernauld Town Centre, the main
shopping centre for the
New town of
Cumbernauld,
Scotland, widely accepted as the
United Kingdom's first
shopping mall and the world's first multi-level covered town centre (partly demolished 2001). • The first part of the
Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower in
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, designed by
Mies van der Rohe; it becomes the tallest building in the British Commonwealth (1967–1972). •
Ypres Cloth Hall, reconstructed to its pre-
World War I condition under the guidance of architects J. Coomans and P.A. Pauwels. ==Awards==