1921 in architecture

The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings completed

Einstein Tower

• The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.^[1]
• Berliner Tageblatt, designed by Erich Mendelsohn.
• The current Sydney Central railway station in Australia.
• Harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, after 4 years of construction.
• The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed (except for domes added in 1937).
• The Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong) is moved to its current site and completed.
• New Hindu Durgiana Temple in Amritsar.
• The Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated on January 23.
• Michel de Klerk's Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amesterdam.
• Monument to the March Dead (Denkmal der Märzgefallenen), by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany.
• The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States.
• The Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States.

Events

• March - Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall) with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth.
• March 21 - Teatro Yagüez in Puerto Rico, designed by José Sabàs Honoré, reopens.
• May 27 - A Buddha image is enshrined in the main hall of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission in Hawai'i, as part of a dedication ceremony for the building.^[2]
• September 5 - The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, opens with a production of Lope de Vega's La dama boba.^[3]
• Hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass.
• Construction work begins on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, designed by Simon Rodia.

Awards

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Cass Gilbert.
• Royal Gold Medal - Edwin Lutyens.

Births

• January 15 - Ulrich Franzen, German-born American "Brutalist" architect,^[4] in Düsseldorf (died 2012)
• February 26 - Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and industrial designer, in Milan (died 2012)
• March 14 - Ada Louise Huxtable New York architecture critic and writer, in New York City, United States (died 2013)
• July 22 - Colin Madigan, Australian architect (died 2011)

Deaths

• March 3 - Pierre Cuypers, Dutch church and museum architect (born 1827)
• May 18 - Martin Nyrop, Danish architect of Copenhagen City Hall (born 1849)^[5]
• June 1 - Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, Scottish Victorian architect (born 1834)
• December 10 - George Ashlin, Irish ecclesiastical architect (born 1837)

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