1935 in architecture
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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- May 29 â 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.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- May 31 - Jubilee Pool, Penzance in Cornwall, England by Frank Latham.[1]
- June 2 â Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, BÄlÈi, Moldova.[2]
- July 6 â New building for Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, by Ad van der Steur.
- July 13 â Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
- July 22 â Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.[3]
- August 3 â Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, South Island of New Zealand, by Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman after Esther Hope, is consecrated.
- August 5 â Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
- September 30 â Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
- November 4 â Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren.
- November 5 â Faringdon Folly tower, England, by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners.
- November 18
- Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by KÄrlis ZÄle, is unveiled.
- Opelwerk Brandenburg, Germany, begins production, 190 days after the laying of the foundation stone.[4]
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[5][6]
- 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
- Stern House, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa, by Rex Distin Martienssen and partners
- Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, by Piero Portaluppi[7]
- Stockholm Collective House by Sven Markelius with Alva Myrdal
- Dispensario Antituberculoso, Barcelona, by Josep LluÃs Sert
- An-Nasr Mosque, Nablus, Palestine[8]
- Grand Mosque of Mopti, French Sudan
- El Omrane Mosque, Tunis[9]
- Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, India, designed by Henry Medd[10]
- Church of Our Lady and the First Martyrs, Heaton, West Yorkshire, England, designed by J. H. Langtry-Langton
- Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, designed by Nils Einar Ericsson
- Vyborg Library, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto[11]
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Exhibitions
- Opened to the public April 19 - Industrial arts exposition at the Forum at Rockefeller Center in New York City; where models and plans for Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed Broadacre City were displayed for the first time.[12][13]
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal â Willem Marinus Dudok.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture â Paul Domenc.
Births
- March 3 â Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
- May 7 â Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)
- June 1 â Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners[14]
- November 20 â Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)[15]
- October 27 â Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
- October 31 â John Melvin, English architect
Deaths
- March 27 â Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
- April 5 â Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
- July 6 â Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
- July 7 â George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)
- September 2 â Sir Henry Tanner, English public building architect (born 1849)[16]