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Overview of the events of 1929 in architecture
The year 1929 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- April –
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower,
Brooklyn, New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
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July 11 – Chapel,
Stowe School, England, designed by Sir
Robert Lorimer (died September 13).
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July 23 –
Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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August 24 –
Baker City Tower hotel,
Baker City, Oregon, designed by
Tourtellotte & Hummel.
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October 3 –
Dominion Theatre, London, England, designed by W. and T. R. Milburn.
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December 1 –
Underground Electric Railways Company of London headquarters,
55 Broadway, designed by
Charles Holden.
Buildings completed
- Station reconstructions on
Berlin U-Bahn, designed by
Alfred Grenander.
- The
Barcelona Pavilion, designed by
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario; it becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
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Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, England, designed by
Giles Gilbert Scott (July).
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Lovell House in Los Angeles, designed by
Richard Neutra.
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E-1027 vacation home at
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France, designed for themselves by
Eileen Gray and her lover
Jean Badovici.
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Imperial Chemical House on Millbank,
Westminster, London, designed by
Frank Baines.
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Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, designed by
Alvar Aalto.
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Boston Avenue Methodist Church in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Richfield Tower in Los Angeles, designed by
Stiles O. Clements.
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Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain, designed by José Espeliú.
- Melnikov-House, designed by
Konstantin Melnikov.
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Rodmarton Manor in Gloucestershire, England, designed by the
Barnsley brothers and
Norman Jewson (begun 1909).
- Functionalist villa by Bohdan Lachert in Warsaw, Poland.
Awards
Births
Deaths
References