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1952 in architecture
Summary
The year
1952 in architecture
involved some significant events.
List of years in architecture
(
table
)
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Buildings and structures
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
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Buildings and structures
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Buildings
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Liljestrand House
in
Honolulu, Hawaii
Säynätsalo Town Hall
in Finland
April –
Stockwell Garage
, designed by
Adie, Button and Partners
, with engineer A. E. Beer, is opened by
London Transport
.
December 15 – The
Sands Hotel
, designed by
Wayne McAllister
, is opened on the
Las Vegas Strip
(demolished 30 June 1996).
Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects
, completed in the
Brush Park
section of
Detroit, Michigan
.
Edificio Miguel E. Abed
completed in
Mexico City
using the latest technology for
earthquake engineering
.
Kotelnicheskaya Embankment
apartments completed in the central
Tagansky District
in
Moscow
, and one of the "
Seven Sisters
".
Lever House
, designed by
Gordon Bunshaft
and
Natalie de Blois
of
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
, is completed at 390 Park Avenue in
New York City
.
Liljestrand House
in
Honolulu, Hawaii
, designed by
Vladimir Ossipoff
, is completed.
Utzon's House in Hellebæk
(Denmark), designed by
Jørn Utzon
for himself, is built.
Säynätsalo Town Hall
in
Finland
, designed by
Alvar Aalto
, is completed.
Unité d'Habitation
in
Marseille
, designed by
Le Corbusier
, is completed.
Pedregulho Housing Complex
in
Rio de Janeiro
, designed by
Affonso Eduardo Reidy
, is inaugurated.
United Nations Secretariat Building
on Manhattan, designed by France's
Le Corbusier
and Brazil's
Oscar Niemeyer
, is completed.
Dorton Arena
("Paraboleum"),
Raleigh, North Carolina
, designed by
Matthew Nowicki
(died
1950
), is built.
Awards
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AIA Gold Medal
–
Auguste Perret
.
RIBA
Royal Gold Medal
–
George Grey Wornum
.
Births
edit
February 15 –
Marco Piva
, Italian
July 25 –
Eduardo Souto de Moura
, Portuguese
December 15 –
David Marks
, British (d.
2017
)
Shelley McNamara
, Irish
Deaths
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December 26 –
Robert Atkinson
, English (born
1883
)