title: 1959 in architecture
text: # 1959 in architecture
  
  The year 1959 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Boardman Hall at Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller and built in 1892, is demolished
  
  ## Buildings and structures
  
  ### Buildings opened
  
  * 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
  
  * 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.
  * Pride Cleaners, Chicago, designed by Gerald Siegwart.
  * 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)
  