Buildings
- The World Trade Center in New York City, New York, is dedicated on April 4 and officially opens.
- Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, United States, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, becomes the tallest building in the world
- October 20 - Sydney Opera House, designed by Jørn Utzon opens in Sydney, Australia
- The Aon Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States opens. It is originally known as the Standard Oil Building
- The Harvard Science Center at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Josep Lluís Sert, is built
- The IDS Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota is completed
- The First Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is completed
- The Kiev TV Tower in Kiev, Ukraine is completed
- The Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa is completed and opened
- The Tour Montparnasse in Paris, France is opened
- The Zagreb TV Tower in Zagreb, Croatia is completed
- Tower 2 of the Meritus Mandarin Singapore in Singapore is completed
- Cromwell Tower in London, United Kingdom is completed
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Famous quotes containing the word buildings:
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)