1929 in architecture

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.
• 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.
• WUWA (Wrocław)

Buildings and structures

Buildings opened

• April – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Brooklyn, New York city, designed by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer.
• July 11 – Chapel, Stowe School, England, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer (died September 13).
• July 23 – Landakotskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• August 24 – Baker City Tower hotel, Baker City, Oregon, designed by Tourtellotte & Hummel.
• October 3 – Dominion Theatre, London, England, designed by W. and T. R. Milburn.
• December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London headquarters, 55 Broadway, designed by Charles Holden.

Buildings completed

• Station reconstructions on Berlin U-Bahn, designed by Alfred Grenander.
• 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 (July).
• 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.
• Imperial Chemical House 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.
• Melnikov-House, designed by Konstantin Melnikov.
• Rodmarton Manor in Gloucestershire, England, designed by the Barnsley brothers and Norman Jewson (begun 1909).
• Functionalist villa by Bohdan Lachert in Warsaw, Poland.

Awards

• AIA Gold Medal – Milton Bennett Medary
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Victor Laloux
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture –

Births

• January 11 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist (died 2020)
• February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect (died 2025)
• April 3 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bengal-born structural engineer (died 1982)
• May 22 – Neave Brown, American-born British residential architect (died 2018)
• June 15 – Derek Walker, English architect and urban planner (died 2015)
• July 13 – Richard VyÅ¡kovský, Czech architect and creator of paper models (died 2019)
• October 11 – Raymond Moriyama, Canadian architect (died 2023)

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)
• 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)

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