1952 in architecture

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The year 1952 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

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 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

Saynatsalo Town Hall in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed.

Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, is completed.

United Nations Secretariat Building, designed by French architect Le Corbusier and Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.

Dorton Arena ("Paraboleum"), Raleigh, North Carolina, designed by Matthew Nowicki (died 1950), is built.

AIA Gold Medal - Auguste Perret.

Royal Gold Medal - George Grey Wornum.

July 25 - Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect

Marco Piva, Italian architect

December 26 - Robert Atkinson, English architect (born 1883)

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