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The year 1979 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

  • March – Kuwait Towers opens in Kuwait City with a Viewing Sphere which completes a full turn every 30 minutes.
  • August 32 – Vienna International Centre, for the United Nations Office at Vienna.
  • September 2 – Prabhupada's Palace of Gold is dedicated in Marshall County, West Virginia, USA, as a memorial shrine built by Hare Krishna devotees.
  • September 3 – National Theater of Cuba, Havana; construction of the building began in 1951.
  • October 10 – The Atheneum, designed by Richard Meier, opens as a visitor center in New Harmony, Indiana.

Buildings completed

thumb|The [[Rio de Janeiro Cathedral, Brazil]]

  • Brønnøysund Bridge, Norway.
  • Parque Central Complex, Caracas, Venezuela, the tallest building in South America.
  • The Tower of Europe in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • Rio de Janeiro Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro), with 64 meter (210&nbsp;ft) tall stained glass windows.
  • Hedmark Museum, Hamar, Norway, designed by Sverre Fehn.
  • Bauhaus Archive, West Berlin, Germany, designed by Alexander Cvijanović with Hans Bandel after Walter Gropius.
  • "Stars" housing estate, Katowice, Poland.

Events

  • December: The Thirties Society (now the Twentieth Century Society) established in the United Kingdom as an architectural conservation pressure group.
  • Pritzker Prize instituted by Jay A. Pritzker.
  • Construction begins at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center designed by I. M. Pei.
  • Xanadu House design started.
  • Construction of the 360 foot (110&nbsp;m) communications mast atop the North Tower (1WTC) of the World Trade Center is completed.

Awards

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – I. M. Pei.
  • AIA Gold Medal – I. M. Pei.
  • Architecture Firm Award – Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham.
  • Grand prix national de l'architecture – Claude Parent.
  • Pritzker Prize – Philip Johnson.
  • RAIA Gold Medal – Bryce Mortlock.
  • RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Charles and Ray Eames.
  • Twenty-five Year Award – Yale University Art Gallery.

Deaths

  • April 6 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (born 1893)
  • July 13 – Juraj Neidhardt, Croatian architect, teacher, urban planner and writer (born 1899)
  • October 11 – Roger Hayward, US artist, architect, optical designer and astronomer (born 1899)
  • December 8 – Sydney Ancher, Australian architect (born 1904)
  • December 31 – Charles Draper Faulkner, Chicago-based architect (born 1890)

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