Timeline of Architecture - 1970s

1970s

• 1979 – Charles Moore designs the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans.
• 1978 – Charles Eames dies.
• 1977 – Frank Gehry redesigns his own house in Santa Monica, California.
• 1976 – The Barbican Estate, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, opens in the City of London.
• 1976 – The CN Tower in Toronto opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land.
• 1975 – Completion of the Seoul Tower in Seoul, South Korea.
• 1974 – National Assembly Building in Dakka, Bangladesh, is completed.
• 1973 – The World Trade Center towers, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, are opened in New York.
• 1972 – The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, California, designed by William Pereira, is completed.
• 1971 – Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, designed by Mark Rothko and Philip Johnson is completed.
• 1970 – Construction begins on the Sears Tower in Chicago, designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill).