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1911 in architecture
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The year 1911 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. March 25 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire shows up the need for improved safety standards in New York City buildings. April 4 - Foundation stone of Castle Drogo, a house in Devon, England designed by Edwin Lutyens, laid. May 23 - The competition to design Canberra, Australias new capital, is won by American architect Walter Burley Griffin, in the same year, Griffin marries fellow architect Marion Lucy Mahony. May 23 - New York Public Library Main Branch, designed by Carrère, september 12 - Theatro Municipal, designed by Ramos de Azevedo. September - Altare della Patria in Rome, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1884 inaugurated, fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine, designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. Frank Lloyd Wright builds his Taliesin house and studio in Spring Green, horwood House in Buckinghamshire, England, designed by Detmar Blow, is completed. King Edward Building for the General Post Office in the City of London, designed by Henry Tanner, eagle Insurance Building, Manchester, England, designed by Charles Heathcote. New City Hall, designed by Osvald Polívka, monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington. AIA Gold Medal - George Browne Post, royal Gold Medal - Wilhelm Dorpfeld. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, René Mirland
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1912 in architecture
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The year 1912 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Clough Williams-Ellis receives his first major commission, for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall in Wales. April 19 - Bridges in Constantine, Algeria, Sidi MCid Bridge, Sidi Rached Bridge, designed by Paul Séjourné. April 25 - Rebuilt St Marks Campanile in Venice inaugurated, may - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts opens in Moscow, Russia. St. James Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, designed by Henry Eli White, mysore Palace, India, designed by Henry Irwin. El Centro Español de Tampa, Florida, USA, mawsons Huts, Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, Australian Antarctic Territory Šalouns Villa in Prague, designed by and for sculptor Ladislav Šaloun. Sons of Norway Hall, Petersburg, Alaska, USA, glamorgan County Hall, Cardiff, Wales, designed by Vincent Harris and T. A. Moodie. Royal Gold Medal - Basil Champneys, grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Jacques Debat-Ponsan
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1913 in architecture
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The year 1913 in architecture involved some significant events. February 1 – Grand Central Terminal, rebuilt, re-opens in New York City, april 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City, United States, designed by Cass Gilbert, the tallest building in the world at this date. July 20 – New Town Hall, designed by Hermann Eggert and Gustav Halmhuber, may 31 – Carol I Mosque in Constanța, Romania, designed by George Constantinescu, is inaugurated. October 18 – Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Sinaia railway station in Sinaia, Romania. City Federal Building in Birmingham, Alabama, the tallest building in Alabama until 1969, Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta completed. Union Buildings, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, by Herbert Baker, church of the Holy Spirit, Vienna, by Jože Plečnik, completed. Kelling Hall, Norfolk, England, designed by Edward Maufe, scheu House and Horner House, Vienna, both designed by Adolf Loos, completed. Interiors of Café Capua, Herrenmodesalon Kniže and Bridge-Club-Wien, Vienna, all designed by Adolf Loos, bridge of Sighs, Hertford College, Oxford, England, by Thomas G. Jackson, built. Halenbrücke concrete open-spandrel arch bridge over Aare between Bern and Kirchlindach in Switzerland, Adolf Loos Ornament and Crime is first published. Royal Gold Medal – Reginald Blomfield, Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Roger Séassal. May 20 – H. T. Post, American architect
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1914 in architecture
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The year 1914 in architecture involved some significant events. January 14 - Bridge of Sighs at Hertford College, Oxford, England, april - Opera House, Wellington, New Zealand, designed by William Pitt. May 7 - King Edward VII Galleries at the British Museum, London, august 15 - The Panama Canal, completed by George Washington Goethals. December 7 - Tepid Baths, Auckland, New Zealand, basilica of Sacré-Cœur, Paris, designed by Paul Abadie. Park Guell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antonio Gaudi, stralsund Theatre, Germany, designed by Carl Moritz. Interior of Cadena Café,59 Westbourne Grove, London, designed by Omega Workshops, may 15–August 8 - Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, featuring the Glass Pavilion designed by Bruno Taut. August 15 - A dismissed servant kills seven people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wrights studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin, AIA Gold Medal - Jean-Louis Pascal. Royal Gold Medal - Jean-Louis Pascal, grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Albert Ferran
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1915 in architecture
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The year 1915 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. April - The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, designed by Jan Letzel, is opened, april 21 - Theatre Circo, Braga, Portugal. November 6 - Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, Pennsylvania, designed by Abraham Burton Cohen, prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay. Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Village, California, well Hall Estate for arsenal workers at Woolwich in south-east London. Royal Gold Medal - Frank Darling, grand Prix de Rome, architecture, not held
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1916 in architecture
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The year 1916 in architecture involved some significant events. Colony Club at Park Avenue & 62nd Streer in New York City by Delano & Aldrich with interiors by Elsie de Wolfe, later the East Coast school of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, completed. Main building of St Hughs College, Oxford in England by Herbert Tudor Buckland, church of St Paul, Liverpool in England by Giles Gilbert Scott completed. Holland House in the City of London, designed by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, november - The Incorporation of Architects in Scotland founded in Edinburgh. Publication of the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs is initiated, royal Gold Medal - Robert Rowand Anderson. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, not held
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1917 in architecture
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The year 1917 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. The journal De Stijl is first published by Theo van Doesburg, the Het Schip housing scheme designed by Michel de Klerk in Amsterdam is started. The Lister County Courthouse designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in a Mannerist style in Solvesborg, edificio Correos, San José, Costa Rica Livermore House, San Francisco, California, USA, designed by Julia Morgan. RIBA Royal Gold Medal - Henri Paul Nenot
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1918 in architecture
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The year 1918 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. November 3 – A Baroque Marian column in Prague, the Czech Republic, is destroyed by nationalists, december 3 - The Novembergruppe is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. Hallidie Building is built in San Francisco, credited as the first glass curtain wall building. D. L. James House is built in Carmel Highlands, designed by Greene and Greene in an Arts and Crafts style. Police Headquarters are built in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Hack Kampmann in a Neoclassical style. Our Lady of the Victories Basilica in Melbourne, Australia is completed, newman College in Melbourne, Australia designed by Walter Burley Griffin, is completed. The Chapel of St. James, of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, Stockholm Library, designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund is built in Stockholm, Sweden in a Mannerist early modern style. The Woodland Chapel is built in Stockholm, Sweden, royal Gold Medal - Ernest Newton. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture, not held, march 16 - Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect April 10 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect best known for Sydney Opera House July 3 - Benjamin C
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1919 in architecture
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The year 1919 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. 25 April - The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, November - Start of the Glass Chain correspondence. Julia Morgan is selected as the architect for William Randolph Hearsts La Cuesta Encantada, better known as Hearst Castle, in San Simeon, California, USA. 5 March - Rebuilt Helsinki Central railway station, designed by Eliel Saarinen April - First Congregational Church of Albany, New York, USA,27 November - Laie Hawaii Temple, Oʻahu, Hawaii, USA, dedicated. 29 November - Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin with interior remodelled as a theater by Hans Poelzig, Church of the Madonna della Difesa, Montreal, Canada. McMahon Building, better known as the Worlds littlest skyscraper, by J. D. McMahon, in downtown Wichita Falls,11 November - Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Het Schip, Amsterdam, Netherlands, by Michel de Klerk. First Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, by Rudolf Steiner, royal Gold Medal - Leonard Stokes. Grand Prix de Rome, architecture - Jacques Carlu and Jean-Jacques Haffner, edelsvärd, Swedish architect 6 November - Hans Christian Amberg, Danish architect
