1907 in architecture
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The year 1907 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- January â Plans for St David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers at Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, are drawn up by the Glasgow School architect George Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he is a member.[1] The hotel closes in 2008, and planning permission for demolition is approved in 2009.
- May 18 â The foundation stone of Bedford School chapel in England, designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
- September 29 â The foundation stone of Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed by G. F. Bodley, is laid.
- October 6 â Deutscher Werkbund is founded by Hermann Muthesius in Munich.[2]
- City plan for Barcelona by Léon Jaussely officially adopted.
- District plan for Highland Park, Texas, by Wilbur David Cook and George Kessler drawn up.
- English designer C. R. Ashbee is commissioned to build the Villa San Giorgio in Taormina, Sicily.[3]
Buildings and structures
Buildings completed
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- April 13 â Old New York Evening Post Building at 20 Vesey Street on Manhattan, designed in Art Nouveau style by Robert D. Kohn, opened.
- October 8 â Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner.
- Great Mosque of Djenné in French Sudan.
- Port of Liverpool Building in Liverpool, England, designed by Sir Arnold Thornely.
- Tampere Cathedral, Finland, designed by Lars Sonck.
- Poti Cathedral in Georgia within the Russian Empire, designed by Alexander Zelenko and Robert Marfeld and constructed on the Hennebique system.[4]
- St Matthew's Church, Paisley in Scotland, designed by W. D. McLennan.
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma).
- Rebuilt Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine, designed by Fritz Beblo.
- The Magasins Réunis, a large department store in Nancy, France, by Lucien Weissenburger (after seventeen years of work).
- Villa Fruhinsholz in Nancy, France, designed by Léon Cayotte.
- Stadttheater Barmen in Wuppertal and Stadttheater Düren, both designed by Carl Moritz in Germany.
- North Hall, the fifth dormitory on the quad at Vassar College, USA. The building is renamed Jewett Hall in 1912 in honor of the College's first president, Milo P. Jewett.
- Rebuilt Basel SBB railway station in Switzerland, designed by Emil Faesch and Emmanuel La Roche.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal â Aston Webb.
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â John Belcher.
Births
- June 17 â Charles Eames, American designer (died 1978)
- July 7 â Ben-Ami Shulman, Israeli architect (died 1986)
- August 13
- J. M. Richards, English architectural writer (died 1992)
- Basil Spence, Indian-born British architect (died 1976)
- August 24 â Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect (died 2012)
- December 15 â Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (died 2012)
- Walter Segal, German-born architect, pioneer of self-build methods (died 1985)
Deaths
- January 24 â Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish historicist architect (born 1826)
- May 6 â Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
- June 14 â William Le Baron Jenney, American architect credited with building the first skyscraper (born 1832)
- October 21 â George Frederick Bodley, English architect (born 1827)
- November 30 â Ludwig Levy, German Jewish historicist architect (born 1854)