1942 in architecture
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The year 1942 in architecture involved some significant events.
- April 25 – Marriage of English architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry in London.
- May 30/31 – Bombing of Cologne in World War II: The first 1,000 bomber raid and associated fires destroy 3,330 non-residential buildings and make 13,000 families homeless; eleven of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne are damaged.
- September – Alker Tripp publishes Town Planning and Road Traffic in England, advocating segregated roads.
- An abridged version of the Athens Charter by Le Corbusier is published.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
- October 10 – The Normandie Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, designed by engineer Félix Benítez Rexach and architect Raúl Reichard, is opened.
- The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, United States is completed.
- Walthamstow Town Hall in London, designed by Philip Hepworth in 1932, is completed.
- Wythenshawe Bus Garage in Manchester, England is completed.[1]
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – William Curtis Green.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Raymond Gleize?
