1935 in architecture
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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Buildings opened
- June 2 - Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.[1]
- July 13 - Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
- July 22 - Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.[2]
- August 5 - Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
- September 30 - Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
- November 4 - Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren
- November 18
- Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by Kārlis Zāle, is unveiled.
- Opelwerk Brandenburg, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.[3]
Buildings completed
- Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
- Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion, Istanbul, designed by Seyfi Arkan and gifted to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[4][5]
- Highpoint I apartment block, Highgate, north London, by Berthold Lubetkin with structural design by Ove Arup.
- De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England, by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff
- Supreme Court of the United States by Cass Gilbert, completed posthumously
- Von Sternberg House, Northridge, California, by Richard Neutra
- Stockholm Collective House by Sven Markelius with Alva Myrdal
- Dispensario Antituberculoso, Barcelona, by Josep Lluís Sert
- An-Nasr Mosque, Nablus, Palestine.[6]
- Grand Mosque of Mopti, French Sudan.
- El Omrane Mosque, Tunis.[7]
- Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India, designed by Henry Medd.[8]
- Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson.
- Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.[9]
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage.
Events
- May 29 - Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie, with Art Déco and Streamline Moderne interiors designed under the supervision of Roger-Henri Expert, begins her maiden voyage.
Awards
- Royal Gold Medal - Willem Marinus Dudok.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Paul Domenc.
Births
- March 3 - Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
- May 7 - Michael Hopkins, English architect
- June 1 - Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners
- November 20 - Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)[10]
- October 27 - Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
- October 31 - John Melvin, English architect
Deaths
- March 27 - Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
- April 5 - Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
- July 6 - Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
- July 7 - George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)
References
- ↑ 2 june 1935.
- ↑ "Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham". Modernist Britain. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ↑ Schneider, Hans-Jürgen. (1987). 125 Jahre Opel, Autos und Technik. Verlag Schneider+Repschläger. No known ISBN.
- ↑ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü". ataturk.net. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ↑ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü" (in Turkish). Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ↑ Salameh, Khader Ibrahim (2001). The Qurʼān Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. Garnet & Ithaca Press. p. 190. ISBN 1-85964-132-6.
- ↑ "Lieux de culte Municipalité de Tunis" (in French). Government of Tunis. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
- ↑ "Sacred Heart Cathedral, Delhi". sacredheartcathedraldelhi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
- ↑ Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1997). Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7.
- ↑ Heathcote, Edwin (2011-09-28). "Imre Makovecz (1935–2011)". bdonline.
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