The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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Events
- May 29 – 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 – Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral, Bălți, Moldova.[2]
- July 6 – New building for Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, by Ad van der Steur.
- July 13 – Shoreham Airport terminal building in England, by Stavers Tiltman.
- July 22 – Odeon, Kingstanding cinema in Birmingham, England, by Harry Weedon and Cecil Clavering.[3]
- August 3 – 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 – Eastbourne Bandstand in Eastbourne, England.
- September 30 – Boulder Dam, by John L. Savage (design engineer) with Gordon Kaufmann (supervising architect), is dedicated.
- November 4 – Hornsey Town Hall, London, by Reginald Uren.
- November 5 – Faringdon Folly tower, England, by Lord Gerald Wellesley for Lord Berners.
- November 18
- Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia, by Kārlis Zāle, 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 Lluís 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 – Willem Marinus Dudok.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Paul Domenc.
Births
- March 3 – Corinne Bennett, née Wilson, English conservation architect (died 2010)
- May 7 – Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)
- June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect, head of international design practice Foster and Partners[14]
- November 20 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)[15]
- October 27 – Giorgio Grassi, Italian architect
- October 31 – John Melvin, English architect
Deaths
- March 27 – Francis Rattenbury, English architect, worked chiefly in Canada (born 1867; murdered)
- April 5 – Basil Champneys, English architect and author (born 1842)
- July 6 – Claude Ferrier, British Art Deco architect (born 1879)
- July 7 – George W. Keller, American architect and engineer (born 1842)
References
- ^ "Captain Latham, His Monument". Penwith Local History Group. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "2 june 1935". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham". Modernist Britain. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ Schneider, Hans-Jürgen. (1987). 125 Jahre Opel, Autos und Technik. Verlag Schneider+Repschläger. No known ISBN.
- ^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü". ataturk.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü" (in Turkish). Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ St Hill, Cate (2014-01-28). "Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan by Piero Portaluppi". Retrieved 2017-03-30.
- ^ Salameh, Khader Ibrahim (2001). The Qurʼān Manuscripts in the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. Garnet & Ithaca Press. p. 190. ISBN 1-85964-132-6.
- ^ "Lieux de culte Municipalité de Tunis" (in French). Government of Tunis. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
- ^ "Sacred Heart Cathedral, Delhi". sacredheartcathedraldelhi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
- ^ Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1997). Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7.
- ^ Naylor, Blanche (1935). "Industrial Art Exhibit". Design. 37 (2): 14–43. doi:10.1080/00119253.1935.10740981.
- ^ "Reading Broadacre - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation".
- ^ Philip Jodidio; Norman Foster (1997). Sir Norman Foster. Edition en anglais, allemand et français. Taschen. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-8228-8071-5.
- ^ Heathcote, Edwin (2011-09-28). "Imre Makovecz (1935–2011)". bdonline.
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