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The year 1971 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

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Events

  • July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center, by Minoru Yamasaki, is topped out at 1,362 feet (415&nbsp;m), making it the second tallest building in the world.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

thumb|[[Courts of Justice building (Valletta)|Courts of Justice building in Valletta, Malta]]

  • January 9 – Courts of Justice building in Valletta, Malta
  • February 26 – Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, United States, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson.
  • May 1 – Näsinneula tower in Tampere, Finland.
  • May 9 – Peace Candle of the World, Scappoose, Oregon, USA.
  • August – Meritus Mandarin Singapore Hotel Tower 1 in Singapore, designed by Stanley T. S. Leong.
  • October 16 – Azadi Tower, originally Shahyad Tower, Tehran, Iran, designed by Hossein Amanat

Buildings completed

thumb|New [[Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, USA]]

  • April – Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • May – New Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.
  • Marsham Towers, three 20-storey tower blocks for the Department of the Environment atop a 5-storey linking building at Marsham Street in Westminster, London, designed by Eric Bedford (demolished 2002–03).
  • Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
  • Maupoleum in Amsterdam, designed by Piet Zanstra (demolished 1994).
  • Danmarks Nationalbank headquarters, Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen with Hans Dissing and Otto Weitling.
  • Carmel de la Paix in Mazille, Saône-et-Loire, France, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
  • Fred. Olsen Lines terminal, London Docklands, the first major design of Foster Associates.
  • Summerland Leisure Complex in Douglas, Isle of Man (destroyed by fire 1973).
  • Ukrainian Institute of Scientific Research and Development, Kyiv, designed by L. Novikov and F. Yurijev.
  • Redcar Library, England, designed by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (demolished 2011).
  • Villa Gontero, Cumiana, Italy, designed by Carlo Graffi.
  • Anderton House, Rigg Side, Goodleigh, North Devon, England, designed by Peter Aldington and John Craig.
  • Usdan Student Center, Brandeis University, designed by Hugh Stubbins

Awards

  • AIA Gold Medal – Louis Kahn
  • Architecture Firm Award – Albert Kahn Associates, Inc.
  • RAIA Gold Medal – Frederick Lucas
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Hubert de Cronin Hastings
  • Twenty-five Year Award – Crow Island School

Births

  • May 7 – Marco Casagrande, Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, writer and professor of architecture
  • May 17 – Martin Aunin, Estonian architect
  • Carlo Ratti, Italian-born architect and urban theorist
  • Rocio Romero, Chilean-born architect

Deaths

  • March 24 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (born 1902)
  • August 1 – Vincent Harris, English architect (born 1876)
  • August 28 – Edith Hughes, Britain's first professionally practising woman architect (born 1888)
  • October 16 – Robin Boyd, Australian architect (born 1919)
  • November 23 – Bertalan Árkay, Hungarian architect (born 1901)

References