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Events relating to architecture
The Brazilian government moves to Brasilia, into public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer
Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki
The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller
The Sears Tower opens in Chicago, displacing the Empire State as the tallest building in the world
The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England
The Willis Faber building, by English architect Norman Foster, is completed in Ipswich
Britain's new National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun, opens on the South Bank in London,
The Pompidou Centre, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opens in Paris
Philip Johnson completes the A.T. & T. skyscraper in New York, an early example of Post-Modernism
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart
US architect Daniel Libeskind designs the City Edge project in Berlin, building it up from startlingly fragmented forms
The 'new and permanent' Parliament House of Australia is completed in Canberra
US architect Frank Gehry builds a strikingly unconventional house for his family in Santa Monica
US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid
Italian architect Renzo Piano completes Kansai airport, on an artificial island in Osaka bay
Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is inaugurated, entering the record books as the world tallest building at 828 m (2717 ft)
The Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre, designed by A+Architecture, is completed in Montpellier
The ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, famous for its remains of classical architecture, is captured by the Islamic State (ISIS)
