1921 in architecture
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The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- March â Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
- March 21 â Teatro Yagüez in Puerto Rico, designed by José Sabà s Honoré, reopens.
- May 27 â A Buddha image is enshrined in the main hall of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission in Hawai'i, as part of a dedication ceremony for the building.[1]
- September 5 â The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba.[2]
- Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass.
- Construction work begins on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, designed by Simon Rodia.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- January 23 â Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, China, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated.
- March 3 â New terminal at the Central railway station, Sydney, Australia, complete with clock tower.[3]
- May 2 â Cunard Building (New York City), designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris with consultants Carrère and Hastings.
- October 26 â The Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States.[4]
- October 28 â The Theater Pathé Tuschinski movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong.
Buildings completed

- The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.[5]
- Berliner Tageblatt, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
- Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, after 4 years of construction.
- The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed (except for domes added in 1937).
- The Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong) is moved to its current site and completed.
- New Hindu Durgiana Temple in Amritsar.
- Michel de Klerk's Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amsterdam.
- Monument to the March Dead (Denkmal der Märzgefallenen), by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany.
- The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
- Wolseley House (showroom and offices), 160 Piccadilly, London, designed by William Curtis Green.
Designs
- Adolf Loos designs a mausoleum for Max DvoÅák that is never built.[6]
Awards
Births
- January 15 â Ulrich Franzen, German-born American "Brutalist" architect,[7] in Düsseldorf (died 2012)
- February 26 â Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer, in Milan (died 2012)
- March 14 â Ada Louise Huxtable, New York architecture critic and writer (died 2013)
- July 22 â Colin Madigan, Australian architect (died 2011)
- September 6 â Lyubow Demeetriyevna Oosava, Russian-born Belarusian architect (died 2015)
Deaths

- March 3 â Pierre Cuypers, Dutch church and museum architect (born 1827)
- May 18 â Martin Nyrop, Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born 1849)[8]
- June 1 â Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish Victorian architect (born 1834)
- December 10 â George Ashlin, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1837)