1929 in architecture
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The year 1929 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- September 7 – Ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the new Palace of Nations in Geneva.[1]
- November 18 – Ceremony to break the ground for the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India, designed by Henry Vaughan Lanchester (completed 1943).
- Plan of White City (Tel Aviv) in Mandatory Palestine by Patrick Geddes agreed.
Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam
Buildings opened
- April - Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Brooklyn, New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
- July 23 - Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- October - Dominion Theatre, London, England.
Buildings completed
- The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
- Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario; it becomes the tallest building in the British Empire.
- Frauenfriedenskirche, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Church of Our Lady & St Alphege, Bath, England, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.
- Lovell House in Los Angeles, designed by Richard Neutra.
- E-1027 vacation home at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France, designed for themselves by Eileen Gray and her lover Jean Badovici.
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London headquarters, 55 Broadway, designed by Charles Holden.
- Nobel House, the headquarters of ICI, on Millbank, Westminster, London, designed by Frank Baines.
- Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto.
- Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Richfield Tower in Los Angeles, designed by Stiles O. Clements.
- Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain, designed by José Espeliú.
Awards
- AIA Gold Medal – Milton Bennett Medary
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Victor Laloux
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Jean Niermans
Births
- January 11 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist
- February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect
- June 15 – Derek Walker, English architect and urban planner (died 2015)
- October 11 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect
Deaths
- January 25 – Ralph Knott, English architect (born 1878)
- February 24 – Lucien Weissenburger, French Art Nouveau architect (born 1860)
- April 4 – Francis Conroy Sullivan, Canadian architect and pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1882)
- August 27 – James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury (born 1857)[2]
- September 13 – Sir Robert Lorimer, Scottish architect and furniture designer (born 1864)
- October 15 – Émile Bénard, French architect and painter (born 1844)
- December 10 – Axel Berg, prize-winning Danish architect (born 1856)
