1951 in architecture

The year 1951 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• January 2 – Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle), designed by William J. Bain of NBBJ, opened.
• February 19 – Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
• February 28 –
  Soundview section of The Bronx
  in New York City.
• May 3 – Festival of Britain opened in London:
  • Royal Festival Hall, designed by Leslie Martin, Peter Moro and Robert Matthew.
  • Dome of Discovery, designed by Ralph Tubbs.
  • Skylon, designed by Philip Powell, Hidalgo Moya and Felix Samuely
    .
  • Telecinema, designed by Wells Coates.
  • Riverside Restaurant, New Schools building and Waterloo entrance tower, designed by Jane Drew with Maxwell Fry.^[1]
  • The Land of Britain and The People of Britain pavilions, the Turntable Café and the "Concourse" promenade, designed by H. T. Cadbury-Brown.
  • Fountain by Eduardo Paolozzi.
  • '51 Bar by Leonard Manasseh and Ian Baker.
  • The Lansbury Estate in Poplar is begun as a housing showcase.
• May 23 – Terrace Theatre (Minnesota), designed by Liebenberg and Kaplan, opens.
• 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments are completed in Chicago, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  .
• Healy Guest House, Siesta Key, Florida, designed by Paul Rudolph and Ralph Twitchell is completed.
• The
  Belo Horizonte, Brazil as designed by Oscar Niemeyer
  .
• Farnsworth House (Plano, Illinois) is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  .

• The antenna of the Empire State Building in New York City is added to the building.
• Buildings of England series for Penguin Books, the volume on Nottinghamshire
  .
• Norman Jewson publishes his autobiographical By Chance I did Rove.

Awards

• Bernard Ralph Maybeck
  .
• RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Vincent Harris.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture – Louis de Hoÿm de Marien
  .

Births

• July 28 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and structural engineer
• Yvonne Farrell, Irish architect

Deaths

• February 6 – William Alexander Harvey, English architect working in Birmingham (born 1874)
• July 22 – Arthur Joseph Davis, English architect (born 1878)
• Herbert Tudor Buckland, British architect working in Birmingham (born 1869)

References