1951 in architecture
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The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
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- January 2 – Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed by William J. Bain of NBBJ, opened.
- February 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
- February 28 – Bronx River Houses completed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in New York City.
- May 3 – Festival of Britain opened in London:
- Royal Festival Hall, designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
- Dome of Discovery, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
- Skylon, designed by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely.
- Telecinema, designed by Wells Coates.
- Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.[1]
- The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by H. T. Cadbury-Brown.
- Fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi.
- '51 Bar by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker.
- The bombed St John's Church, Waterloo, remodelled by Thomas Ford, is rededicated as the Festival church.
- The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase – including Trinity Congregational Church, designed by Cecil Handyside and Douglas Stark.
- May 23 – Terrace Theatre (Minnesota), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
- 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
- Healy Guest House, Siesta Key, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell is completed.
- The JK Building completed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
- Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Events
- The antenna of the Empire State Building in New York City is added to the building.
- Nikolaus Pevsner publishes the first in his Buildings of England series for Penguin Books, the volume on Nottinghamshire.
- Norman Jewson publishes his autobiographical By Chance I did Rove.
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