1935 in architecture

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The year 1935 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

## Events

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* 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

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935

### Buildings opened

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* 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

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Fallingwater

* 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

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* 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

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* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Willem Marinus Dudok.
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Paul Domenc.

## Births

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Norman Foster

* 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

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* 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)
* September 2 – Sir Henry Tanner, English public building architect (born 1849)[16]

## References

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1. ^ "Captain Latham, His Monument". Penwith Local History Group. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
2. ^ "2 june 1935". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
3. ^ "Odeon Cinema Kingstanding, Birmingham". Modernist Britain. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
4. ^ Schneider, Hans-Jürgen. (1987). 125 Jahre Opel, Autos und Technik. Verlag Schneider+Repschläger. No known ISBN.
5. ^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü". ataturk.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
6. ^ "Florya Atatürk Deniz Köşkü" (in Turkish). Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı. Archived from the original on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
7. ^ St Hill, Cate (2014-01-28). "Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan by Piero Portaluppi". Retrieved 2017-03-30.
8. ^ 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.
9. ^ "Lieux de culte Municipalité de Tunis" (in French). Government of Tunis. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
10. ^ "Sacred Heart Cathedral, Delhi". sacredheartcathedraldelhi.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
11. ^ Norberg-Schulz, Christian (1997). Nightlands: Nordic Building. MIT Press. p. 164\. ISBN 978-0-262-64036-7.
12. ^ Naylor, Blanche (1935). "Industrial Art Exhibit". Design. 37 (2): 14–43\. doi:10.1080/00119253.1935.10740981.
13. ^ "Reading Broadacre - Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation".
14. ^ Philip Jodidio; Norman Foster (1997). Sir Norman Foster. Edition en anglais, allemand et français. Taschen. p. 168\. ISBN 978-3-8228-8071-5.
15. ^ Heathcote, Edwin (2011-09-28). "Imre Makovecz (1935–2011)". bdonline.
16. ^ Port, M. H. (January 2008) [2004]. "Tanner, Sir Henry (1849–1935)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63423. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

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