title: 1965 in architecture
text: # 1965 in architecture
  
  The year 1965 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Reconstruction of Skopje in Yugoslavia planned by Kenzō Tange and team.
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings opened
  
  * August 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway, Ireland, designed by John J. Robinson, is dedicated.
  * September – Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  * October 6
     * Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, designed by B+H Architects.
     * Post Office Tower in London, UK, designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats and topped out in 1964, is officially opened by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
  * October 28 – Gateway Arch (opened as Jefferson National Expansion Memorial) in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Eero Saarinen.
  * November 19 – Arctic Cathedral, Tromsø, Norway, designed by Jan Inge Hovig, is dedicated.
  * December 28 – Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, designed by Edward Durell Stone.
  * Shalom Meir Tower in Tel-Aviv, Israel, designed by Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv and Meir Levy.
  * The first phase of the University of California, Irvine campus, designed by William Pereira.
  * The first phase of the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, designed by John Carl Warnecke.
  
  ### Buildings completed
  
  * Akosombo Dam, Ghana.
  * Holyoke Center at Harvard University, Boston, United States, designed by Josep Lluís Sert.
  * Richard J. Daley Center in Chicago, United States, designed by Jacques Brownson of C. F. Murphy Associates.
  * NASA Vertical Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Florida, United States.
  * Seinajoki Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
  * St Michael and All Angels Church, Woodchurch, Birkenhead, England, designed by Richard O'Mahony of F. X. Velarde Partners.
  * Nozema Zendstation, The Hague, Netherlands.
  * Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo, designed by Hugh Casson and Neville Conder.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Architecture Firm Award – Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons
  * RAIA Gold Medal – Osborn McCutcheon
  * RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Kenzo Tange
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 13 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect
  * Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkinabè architect
  * Monica Ponce de Leon, Venezuelan-born architect and educator
  * Kerstin Thompson, Australian architect
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 11 – Florestano Di Fausto, Italian architect working around the Mediterranean (born 1890)
  * January 23 – Ingrid Wallberg, Swedish architect (born 1890)
  * May 10 – Karl Burman, Ukrainian-Estonian architect and painter (born 1882)
  * June 21 – Kay Fisker, Danish architect, designer and educator (born 1893)
  * August 6 – Donald McMorran, English neo-Georgian architect (born 1904)
  * August 27 – Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner and writer (born 1887)
  * September 13 – Louis Laybourne Smith, Australian architect and educator (born 1880)
  * November 30 – William Strudwick Arrasmith, American architect, designer of Greyhound bus stations (born 1898)
  