1951 in architecture

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The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Royal Festival Hall, London, as built

• January 2 - Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed by William J. Bain of NBBJ, opened.
• February 28 - Bronx River Houses completed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in New York City.
• May 3 - Festival of Britain opened in London:
  • Royal Festival Hall, designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
  • Dome of Discovery, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
  • Skylon, designed by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely.
  • Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.^[1]
  • The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by H. T. Cadbury-Brown.
  • Fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi.
  • The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase.
• 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
• The JK Building completed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
• Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Events

• Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in his Buildings of England series, the volume on Nottinghamshire.
• The antenna of the Empire State Building is added to the building.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal - Bernard Ralph Maybeck.
• Royal Gold Medal - Vincent Harris.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.

Births

• July 28 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer

Deaths

• February 6 - William Alexander Harvey, English architect working in Birmingham (born 1874)
• July 22 - Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born 1878)
• Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born 1869)

References

1. Drew, Jane (1976). "The Riverside Restaurant". In Banham, Mary; Hillier, Bevis (eds). A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 103.